Holiday Gift Guide With Carly Knobloch!

We’re in the homestretch of the holiday season and this is when most shoppers are scouring the stores and searching online for the perfect Tech gift. Do you need some gadget guidance? Tech lifestyle expert Carley Knobloch runs through her top ideas for your techie gift list, from the smart home to computers and virtual reality.

It’s great to keep an eye on your home while you’re away especially during the holidays, this is the Ring indoor camera. It’s their most affordable and smallest indoor camera yet and you can even buy them in bundles of two, three or four for every corner of your home. Then you can really see, hear, and speak to anyone from anywhere. It’s Alexa compatible and it has motion activity video and audio recording, but if your home you can turn those features off from the app at any time. The iRobot Roomba i7 Plus is a robot vacuum with the best feature ever, it automatically empties all the dirt, pollen, mold, and dust it picks up into an allergen lock bag so you don’t have to get yourself dirty and the bag itself holds 60 days of debris so you can literally forget about vacuuming for months at a time. Plus, its Alexa or Google Assistant-enabled and it Maps your home’s entire floor plan, so you can choose exactly which rooms are cleaned and when.

An all-in-one virtual reality headset powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon and it’s wireless. Oculus Quest, with super easy setup you’ll be exploring space, paddling through the waterways of Antarctica, or having a dance-off in no time at all, you can even cast your experience to a TV or a phone so the whole family can gather around to watch your adventures. The Portal TV from Facebook, it uses Qualcomm vision intelligence platform to enable smart video calling from the largest screen in your home which is your TV. It sits just below or above it, it lets you move around during calls and still be seen plus, the smart sound technology enhances the voice of whoever’s talking minimizing background noise.

Lastly, a gorgeous PC in a thin lightweight package makes an amazing gift. This is Microsoft Surface pro X, it’s always connected with LTE and has a clickin type cover so you can be productive wherever you are and it’s powered by the Microsoft SQ1 designed with Qualcomm. It delivers up to 13 hours of battery life yet weighs just 1.7 pounds and with the optional surface slim pan you can get creative and sketch or draw things on the beautiful display.

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