• Price: $115
• Features: Point-and-shoot photography | Auto-focus | Double exposure

While digital photography has made it easier than ever to capture stunning landscapes as well as candid moments with family and friends, there’s still something to be said about physical prints. The Polaroid Now I-Type instant camera is a great gift for the shutterbug in your life, with its point-and-shoot controls and auto-focus feature. 

It even lets you create a double exposure on a single piece of film to create composite photos entirely in-camera. It’s available in 7 different colors, so you can pick one that best matches your personal style.

• Price: $166
• Features: 114mm optics and primary mirror | 2 eyepieces included | Red dot finder scope

The Celestron Astromaster 114 is a great way to get kids and teens interested in STEM fields like astronomy. It features a 114mm primary mirror and two different eye pieces so you can make precise adjustments when viewing everything from the surface of the moon and planets like Jupiter and Venus to distant stars and even satellites. 

It also includes a red dot finder scope so you can pick out objects to view before making adjustments to the main telescope. The included tripod makes it easy to take the telescope with you to find the best spots for viewing the night sky.

• Price: $140
• Features: 6.8-inch display | Up to 10 weeks of battery life | Adjustable light and glare-free screen

The Kindle Paperwhite e-reader is a great gift idea for any book lover in your life. With up to 16GB of storage, it has plenty of space for thousands of audio and digital books as well as songs, pictures, and videos. The 6.8-inch display has an anti-glare coating for better visibility, as well as an adjustable white-to-warm backlighting to reduce eye strain. 

It uses a USB-C cable for quick charging as well as data transfer, and the integrated battery gives you up to 10 weeks of use on a full charge. The case of the Kindle Paperwhite is also IPX8 rated for water resistance, which means that it can be submerged in up to 2 meters of water for about an hour or about a foot of seawater for 3 minutes before you need to panic.

• Price: $100
• Features: Universal wireless charging | Charge up to 4 devices at once | Up to 15W charging

Know someone who can’t make it through the day without all of their devices? The Mophie 4-in-1 wireless charging pad is designed to work with both Android and iOS devices simultaneously, as well as any device that is equipped with Qi wireless charging. 

You can charge up to 4 devices at once, including smartphones, wireless earbud cases, smart watches, and even tablets. With up to 15W of charging, you’ll be able to power up all of your devices more quickly so you can spend more time doing what you need to and less time waiting for your batteries to top up.

• Price: $110
• Features: 64 RGB pads | Fully customizable | Compact and portable

Know someone who loves to create song mash-ups or original beats? The Novation Launchpad Mini is a great gift for music makers with 64 fully customizable pads for sampling beats, instruments, and other sound clips to create the next viral TikTok sound or Spotify single. 

The compact design also means that it’s easy to take with you to collaborate with friends and other creators. Novation also has a library of step-by-step videos to help you set up and start creating, so even total beginners can experiment with sounds.

• Price: $200
• Features: 2 week battery life | GPS and health tracking | Swimproof

The Garmin Forerunner 55 is an almost perfect blend of fitness tracker and smartwatch, allowing you to plan marathon routes, create custom workout routines, and monitor health metrics while staying connected to social media and your phone contacts. 

The integrated battery lasts up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, which blows the Apple Watch out of the water, and with GPS enabled, you’ll still get up to 20 hours of use before you need to plug in. You can even use the Garmin Forerunner 55 for contactless payment by syncing with your digital wallet and shopping apps.

• Price: $224
• Features: iOS and Android compatible | Headphone monitoring| Professional audio quality

The Shure MV88+ is a mobile microphone that plugs into your iPhone’s lightning port or Android phone’s USB-C port to provide professional-quality audio for everything from silly TikTok skits to make-up tutorials and video essays. It works with the Shure MOTIV app for creating custom equalizer settings so your audience hears you and not annoying background sounds. 

You can also use the app to choose between recording in stereo, bi-directional, and cardioid patterns to suit music, interviews, and other content types. It also comes with a windscreen, miniature tripod, and phone clamp to help you set up and create quality videos in minutes.

• Price: $36
• Features: Indoor/outdoor use | 2-way audio | Night vision

This indoor/outdoor security camera is a great and affordable way to give people peace of mind during the holidays as well as the rest of the year. The Wyze Cam V3 doesn’t require any hardwiring for installation, instead using an adhesive pad for virtually limitless placement options. And the housing is IP65 rated for waterproofing, so snow, rain, and other outdoor elements won’t ruin delicate electronics. 

With a color night vision mode, you can keep a better eye on your yard, garage, or the interior of your home while 2-way audio lets you speak to visitors, delivery people, and intruders without needing to open your door or enter the room.

• Price: $25
• Features: Automatic shut-off | 5 colors | Fits a variety of mugs

If you know anyone like me who loves a good cup of coffee or tea while you work, but often don’t have time to drink it all before it goes cold, the Misby Mug Warmer is a perfect gift. This tiny hotplate is designed to keep your mug of coffee, tea, or cocoa at the perfect temperature so you can enjoy it at your leisure. 

And with an automatic shut-off feature, you won’t have to worry about it overheating or causing damage to your work desk. The body of the hot plate is spill-proof, which makes it easy to wipe clean and safe from electrical shorts. And while the heating area itself is just 3.5-inches in diameter, the rimless design of the warming plate means that you can use that extra large mug on days when you could really use the caffeine.

• Price: $100
• Features: 1080p video | Motion detection | Rechargeable battery

The Ring video doorbell is one of the most popular options on the market, and for good reason. It features an integrated, rechargeable battery for power, so you don’t have to worry about hardwiring anything. Just place the mounting bracket, and attach the Ring doorbell. It provides clear 1080p HD video so you can see exactly who is at your door. 

Plus, a built-in motion detector triggers recording to save battery and cloud storage space. You’ll be able to review up to 180 days worth of recordings and photos as needed. It even works with Alexa-enabled devices, so you can connect an Echo Show to the Ring doorbell to check video and audio feeds and talk to visitors and delivery people without having to open your door.

• Price: $55
• Features: Teaches basic coding | Teaches JavaScript | 4 modes

The Sphero Mini robot ball is a great STEM learning tool disguised as a toy. For younger kids, it uses a companion app with drag-and-drop coding blocks for simple routines like driving through a maze or around objects. And for older kids and teens, the Sphero Mini uses JavaScript to teach more advanced coding. And with three different game modes, your kids can use the Sphero Mini as a controller for arcade-style games within the companion app. 

Equipped with a gyroscope, accelerometer, and LED indicator lights, the Sphero Mini has everything it needs to get your kids interested in the basics of robotics, coding, and other STEM fields without feeling like they’re being lectured.