Treat the Tech Enthusiast on Your List

Shopping for tech gifts can be overwhelming. With the ever-changing landscape of tech gadgets, it can be difficult to know which gifts are worth buying. Fortunately, there are plenty of great tech gifts to choose from this year. No matter your budget, you can find the perfect gift for your loved ones. We’ve highlighted some of the hottest tech gadgets and gifts on the market.

Apple AirTag

With international travel picking up, many people are gearing up for a trip abroad. With all the hustle and bustle of packing and preparing for a trip, it’s easy for things to get lost in the mix. This is where an AirTag can come in handy. The AirTag is a small, portable device developed by Apple that can be attached to items like luggage, keys or bags. Using the Find My app on your Apple device, you can track the location of your AirTag and find your lost items.

Unlike satellite navigation devices, AirTags do not use satellites for navigation. Through Bluetooth signals coming from other anonymous iOS and iPadOS devices out in the world, AirTags are automatically located on a map within the Find My app.

Whether you’re a frequent traveler or simply want to keep track of your belongings, an AirTag can surely provide peace of mind and make your travels a little less stressful.

Lumen

Health is always at the forefront of many people New Year’s resolutions. For those looking for something fitness-related, look no further than the Lumen, a device that claims to be the “world’s first portable device to measure, track and analyze your metabolism.” Traditionally, these types of measurements would require a team of nutritionists and/or scientists to analyze, but Lumen asserts that this can now all be done in just three minutes. With a single breath, the breathalyzer analyzes (through a single breath) whether our body is burning fats or carbs for fuel.

A CO2 sensor and flow meter are used by Lumen to determine CO2 concentrations in a breath. The device is connected to an app that provides detailed feedback for the user. As a result, users will be able to indicate what type of fuel their body is currently using (carbs vs. fats). Through tracking metabolism, sleep, nutrition and fitness data, users are then able to determine what adjustments to make according to Lumen’s recommendations.

Check out the Lumen breathalyzer for a convenient and insightful way to track progress.

Oura Ring

Another health-measuring gadget on the rise is the Oura Ring. Using the Oura Ring, you can track a bunch of data about your body and gain a clearer understanding of how it’s functioning. In addition to measuring your sleep stages and heart rate, the ring also measures breathing rate, skin temperature, heart rate variability and several other metrics.

Primarily a sleep tracker, the app rates how well you slept. In addition to determining how much deep sleep, REM sleep and light sleep you’re getting, it can also learn about your sleep patterns and provide specific recommendations on how to improve your rest quality (such as avoiding specific activities that could disrupt sleep, like a late night coffee).

You can also use the ring to keep track of your activity during the day to determine if you’re hitting your goals or if your body needs more recovery time. By monitoring your temperature trends, it can also help 20a user learn and visualize their menstrual cycle. Also included in the app is an audio library for meditation sessions, as well as other cool features and perks.

Overall a perfect gift for health-conscious people looking to improve their quality of life.

reMarkable

There’s a good chance you’ve seen the eye-catching ads on Instagram for reMarkable tablets. As people increasingly use tablets and screens for writing and taking notes, the reMarkable restores the classic writing-on-paper feel. In this way, despite replacing notebooks and printed documents, it retains a sense of the old for those who crave or prefer it.

Featuring a paper-like surface for writing and reading, the tablet has no glare or backlight (and is readable in the sunlight). Due to the absence of notifications from social media and apps, the tablet allows you to stay focused, and the only functionality of the Wi-Fi is to sync notes and documents. The reMarkable 2, its latest model, allows users to take handwritten notes, read and review documents and convert handwritten notes to text.

With unlimited pages and folders, you can also properly store and organize all your notes, as well as sync and access your files across different cloud platforms like Google Drive and Dropbox. You can make notes on existing documents and PDFs, and share your tablet into a digital whiteboard and share your ideas on the big screen, amongst other features.

It was six years in the making for the team behind reMarkable to develop technology that mimics the tactile nature and immediate response of paper. It clams to be the “world’s thinnest tablet,” which allows for a more paper-like experience that fits just like a notebook in your bag.

The tablet has a very straightforward and clear objective to accomplish, without any bells and whistles. It’s ideal for those who like to keep things old-school.