40 Techy Gifts Under $100 That We Tested and Love

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  Portable Sound

  Sony SRS-XB100

  This compact Bluetooth talker is conscionable nether 4 inches gangly and has a clever built-in strap, truthful it’s casual to instrumentality with you. It offers up to 16 hours of artillery beingness and has an IP67 rating for particulate and h2o resistance. Snag a brace (or more) and they tin beryllium linked unneurotic for stereo sound. Fun colors see agleam bluish and agleam orange.

  This gadget appears successful our best Bluetooth speakers guide.

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  Light It Up

  Govee Neon Rope Light Strip

  Most airy strips are designed to beryllium tucked distant successful recesses, but this Govee portion has a diffuser, truthful you tin instrumentality it anyplace you privation and it inactive looks great. The adhesive-backed metallic brackets marque for casual installation. The Govee app allows you to schedule, rhythm done colors, play animations, and adjacent make your ain scenes. Some transitions are blocky, and the app tin beryllium confusing, but this is simply a large mode to present your recipient to astute lights.

  This is our favourite diffused airy portion from the best astute lighting guide.

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  Radio Ga-Ga

  Sangean WR-15

  A vigor is simply a useful gadget to have, and this 1 combines old-school benignant with modern functionality, truthful you tin tune into immoderate you want. Portable capable to beryllium connected a bookshelf oregon array for moving successful the store oregon shed, it tin besides service arsenic an amusement backup for erstwhile the powerfulness oregon net goes out. It lacks a Bluetooth connection, but it does person an auxiliary input. Most important, it sounds great.

  This is the apical prime from our best radios guide.

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  Smart Speaker

  Amazon Echo (4th Gen)

  This cute shot of dependable is 1 of our favourite astute speakers due to the fact that it offers detailed, room-filling dependable and has Amazon’s Alexa dependable adjunct wrong to reply your each query. The Amazon Echo (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has onboard mics for dependable commands and adaptive EQ, and built-in Zigbee for astute homes. It’s a useful, hands-free room companion and a large value.

  This is our apical prime of the best Alexa speakers.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Power Up

  Nimble Champ (Series 2)

  Sling a bully portable charger successful your container and you volition ne'er beryllium stranded with a dormant telephone again. Our favourite is Nimble's Champ, which is compact, light, and packs a 5,000- to 20,000-mAh capacity, susceptible of recharging astir phones and laptops astatine slightest once, afloat astatine its smallest size. It comes successful snazzy speckled colors with a useful lanyard strap and a wee USB-C cable. We are besides large fans of Nimble’s biology efforts (using bioplastics and plastic-free packaging).

  This powerfulness slope is the apical prime successful our best portable chargers guide.

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  Desk Tidy

  Oakywood Headphone Stand with Wireless Charger

  We emotion multifunctional gadgets similar this headphone basal from Oakywood, which offers a spot to bent your cans and a spot to wirelessly complaint your phone. The angular basal successful coagulated walnut oregon oak is ace stylish, and the alloy basal keeps your headphones neatly retired of the way.

  This headphone basal appears successful our best wireless chargers guide.

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  Game On

  8BitDo Pro 2

  Comfy to clasp for agelong gaming sessions, with a subtle texture that adds grip, this mobile controller combines delicate analog sticks with clicky buttons and an fantabulous D-pad. It tin link via Bluetooth oregon USB-C cablegram for gaming connected a Nintendo Switch, MacBook, Windows PC, Android phone, oregon iPhone. Battery beingness is 20 hours, it has programmable buttons connected the back, and it’s casual to remap.

  This is the apical prime successful our best mobile controllers guide.

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  Smarter Home

  Eve Motion Sensor

  For folks looking to marque their location a small smarter, a question sensor tin beryllium precise useful indeed. This 1 from Eve reliably tracks country occupancy and airy levels, works with Matter for casual compatibility, and makes it precise casual to automate things similar astute lights and astute shades.

  We covered this successful a caller rave.

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  Forty Winks

  Hatch Rest (2nd Generation)

  This operation dependable instrumentality and night-light is besides a dimmable bedside clock. You tin customize colors, set the volume, and play contented from the dependable room successful the app, but you tin besides conscionable pat the apical to rhythm done options (there is simply a kid fastener if you request it). The optional $50 yearly Hatch rank adds bedtime stories, lullabies, and meditations.

  This gadget appears successful our best dependable machines and best night-light guides.

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  Wireless Keyboard

  Keychron B6 Pro and B1 Pro

  We walk a batch of clip tapping distant astatine our keyboards, truthful a decent platform is essential. This ultra-slim level keyboard features scissor-switch keys that are comfy to benignant connected and is wireless, offering up to 1,200 hours of artillery beingness from a azygous charge.

  This instrumentality appears successful our best keyboards guide.

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  Gaming Mouse

  Logitech G203

  Featuring six buttons, RGB lighting, and compatibility with Logitech’s G Hub software, this wired gaming rodent is simply a coagulated option. Serious gamers whitethorn similar thing with higher sensitivity, but the 8,000 dots per inch this rodent supports volition beryllium plentifulness for astir folks.

  This gadget appears successful our best gaming mice guide.

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  Excellent Earbuds

  Soundpeats Capsule3 Pro+

  A cleanable reappraisal people is rare, but the Soundpeats Capsule3 Pro+ (10/10, WIRED Recommends) are a small spot special. They present epic dependable from a operation of dynamic and xMEMS drivers, boast bully mics, connection coagulated sound canceling, and person casual to usage interaction controls.

  These earbuds are our apical prime of the best headphones nether $100.

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  Coffee to Go

  Hydro Flask 16 oz Coffee with Flex Sip Lid

  With a practically indestructible pulverization coating, this question mug is perfect for folks seeking a low-maintenance mug that doesn't request cautious handling. It besides has a pebbled texture that adds grip, and it holds plentifulness of coffee.

  This is the apical prime successful our best question mugs guide.

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  Waffle House

  Cuisinart 4-Slice Belgian Waffle Maker

  Solidly made, with a sleek stainless lid surrounded by sturdy plastic, this Cuisinart waffle shaper (7/10, WIRED Recommends) tin provender a household of four. It weighs astir 10 pounds, truthful storing it nether the antagonistic is recommended. There are 5 settings to get the shadiness of waffle you prefer, and it is mercifully pugnacious to pain them with this gadget.

  This waffle shaper appears successful our buy it for beingness guide.

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  Chop Chop

  Ninja 8-Inch Chef's Knife and Sharpener

  Every aspiring cook oregon household navigator needs a bully prime knife. This weapon has a comfy rounded grip and a pugnacious stainless alloy leaf that holds an edge, and it is versatile capable to chop veggies, crush garlic, oregon portion meat. Keeping your weapon crisp is essential, truthful this comes with a sharpener. You tin besides bargain it without the sharpener for $50.

  This is the apical prime successful our best chef’s knives guide.

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  Coffee Crush

  Oxo Conical Burr Grinder

  For anyone looking to brew amended java astatine home, grinding your ain beans is simply a large spot to start, and conical burr grinders bash a much accordant occupation than leaf grinders. This 1 has 15 settings to cater for each brewing scenario, from finely crushed espresso to coarse-ground for a French press. It’s not excessively loud, grinds quickly, and works reliably. It makes a beauteous acquisition connected its own, oregon you could brace it with a container of your favourite java beans oregon a coffee subscription.

  This is the fund prime successful our best java grinders guide.

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  Picture Perfect

  Monster 8-Inch Digital Frame

  You tin store up to 4,000 photos successful this 8-inch integer frame, which displays astatine a crisp 1280p resolution. It has a achromatic framework with a achromatic equine to assistance your pics pop. You tin swipe the touchscreen oregon usage Google Assistant oregon Alexa for dependable commands.

  This gadget appears successful our best integer representation frames guide.

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  TV Time

  Roku Streaming Stick 4K Plus

  This clever instrumentality plugs close into an HDMI larboard connected your TV and comes with a hands-free remote, truthful you tin usage dependable commands to prime movies and shows. Roku’s interface is responsive, casual to navigate, and acts arsenic a gateway to every streaming service nether the sun.

  This is the apical prime successful our best streaming devices guide.

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  Vinyl Revival

  Victrola Re-Spin Bluetooth Suitcase Record Player

  Despite the easiness with which you tin watercourse conscionable astir immoderate way ever recorded, a full caller procreation is discovering the delights of collecting vinyl. This nifty turntable gives them thing cute and affordable to play records on. There is simply a built-in speaker, but you tin besides wirelessly watercourse to different device.

  This appeared successful our best tech gifts for kids and a rave.

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  Budding Builders

  Connetix Pastel Starter Pack

  This premix of quadrate and triangular magnetic tiles provides limitless operation options for kids and adults (they are irresistible). The pieces are good made from non toxic ABS integrative (BPA- and phthalate-free), with beardown magnets for casual building. The pieces are finished successful brushed pastel colors, and you tin ever adhd much to premix and lucifer with different kits.

  This kit volition look successful the adjacent update to our best STEM toys guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Party Game

  Telestrations

  Easy to grasp, speedy to play, and often hilarious, Telestrations is the crippled that ever comes retired erstwhile we person radical implicit (eight players is ideal). Telestrations challenges you to gully words oregon phrases to walk on and past to place the sketches different players walk to you. When the erasable books get backmost to the owners, everyone reveals however acold from the archetypal connection things got.

  This crippled appears successful our best household committee games guide.

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  Stop Slouching

  Upright Go S Lite Posture Corrector Trainer

  The acquisition each grandma has been dreaming of encourages america to beryllium up consecutive astatine the meal table. The Upright Go S mildly vibrates to punctual you erstwhile you are hunched implicit and promote you retired of atrocious habits. It sends your slouching information to the companion app truthful you tin way your posture progress.

  This is our apical prime of the best posture correctors.

• Photograph: Amazon

  Fitness Tracker

  Fitbit Inspire 3

  Perfect for folks seeking a elemental wellness tracker that volition way steps and sleep, the affordable Fitbit Inspire 3 comes with a wide array of ticker faces and accessories. It’s comparatively casual to get utilized to, adjacent for non-techy people, and it tin assistance to promote bully habits. It is limited, and connectivity tin beryllium flaky, but you won’t find thing amended for this benignant of price.

  This is the fund prime successful our best fittingness trackers guide.

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  Blow Dry

  Hairitage Comin' In Hot Dryer

  Compact, light, and ace affordable, this dryer sports an charismatic grey and rose-gold plan with a velvety-soft coating. It offers 2 speeds, 3 vigor settings, and a acold changeable button. This marque besides offers a diffuser and a comb attachment.

  This is the apical prime successful our best hairsbreadth dryers guide.

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  Stay Dry

  Weatherman The Travel Umbrella

  Most folks drawback a inexpensive umbrella erstwhile it rains, oregon spell without, but a well-made, compact umbrella is simply a astute summation to immoderate bag. This brolly combines pugnacious fiberglass ribs and shaft with a quick-drying Teflon fabric. It opens and closes automatically, has a pouch with a zipper for compact storage, and comes with a beingness warranty.

  This is the apical prime successful our best umbrellas guide.

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  Pocket Knife

  Victorinox Deluxe Tinker

  The iconic reddish integrative grip of Victorinox’s Deluxe Tinker makes it casual to spot, and it packs an awesome 17 mini-tools. It is light, compact, and durable capable to gaffe into a pouch oregon container and hide astir until you request it. The institution offers a beingness warranty.

  This appears successful our best multi-tools guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Warm Hands

  Verloop Twist Knit Touchscreen Gloves

  These eye-catching knitted mitts travel successful each sorts of amusive colour combos and support your fingers cozy. Even better, the tips of the thumb, scale finger, and mediate digit each enactment with touchscreens, truthful you tin usage your telephone without having to instrumentality your gloves off. They are instrumentality washable, too.

  These gloves look successful our best touchscreen gloves guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Cha-Ching

  Ekster Parliament Wallet

  This tough, minimalist, aluminum wallet with a leather screen has a clever trigger to rapidly gully your cards erstwhile you request to pay. You tin acceptable six cards successful the main compartment, which besides has RFID blocking. There’s a strap to clasp currency and immoderate other pockets successful the cover.

  We besides similar Ekster’s backpack, which appears successful our best camera bags guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Reading Light

  Vekkia 14 LED Book Light

  You tin work without disturbing your spouse with this clip-on light. It has an easy adjustable gooseneck and 2 swiveling airy bars with 7 LEDs apiece. The large, padded clamp supports assorted positions, and you tin rhythm done 5 levels of brightness and 3 lukewarm colors with minimal bluish light. The artillery beingness is up to 80 hours connected the lowest brightness, and there's a USB-C larboard for charging.

  This gadget appears successful our best speechmaking lights guide.

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  Handy Backpack

  Herschel Heritage Backpack

  Capable of carrying textbooks and a laptop successful its dedicated 15-inch sleeve, this versatile container besides works arsenic an overnight container stuffed with apparel and a brace of shoes, oregon arsenic a carry-on with essentials. The 600-denier polyester with faux leather bottommost and grip is simply a durable combo.

  This appears successful our best backpacks guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Hot Coffee

  Ohom Ui 3 Self Heating Mug Set

  Few things are much unpleasant than a slug of acold coffee, but this clever self-heating mug tin support your beverage bully and warm. It works with a peculiar Qi wireless charging mat that tin besides complaint your phone.

  I wrote a rave astir this self-heating mug.

• Photograph: Kat Merck

  Be Cool

  Vornado 660

  Our favourite instrumentality features 3 casual to property velocity buttons and volition happily beryllium connected a table, sideboard, desk, oregon the level to softly and efficaciously propulsion aerial passim your home. It adjacent has a grip for casual carrying, and you tin unscrew the beforehand grille to cleanable it.

  This appears successful our usher to the best fans.

• Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Super Fiber

  Smartwool Merino Classic Long-Sleeve

  Merino wool is earthy and renewable, and manages to beryllium chill oregon lukewarm erstwhile you need. This apical is conscionable the close value for a basal layer, with heavy-duty seams that don't rub. At lone 87 percent merino wool (blended with nylon), this is simply a large intro to the delights of a wool basal layer.

  This apical appears successful our best Merino wool clothes guide.

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  Bum Bag

  Patagonia Ultralight Black Hole Mini Hip Pack

  Made from 100 percent recycled, ultralight, water-repellent ripstop nylon, this useful container comes successful a clump of delightful retro colour combinations and is conscionable the close size for a phone, wallet, and articulator balm. It tin beryllium closed tightly to enactment enactment for runs, but easy expands erstwhile you request abstraction for a chapeau oregon brace of gloves.

  This appears successful our best fanny packs guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Power Up

  Tessan GaN Universal Travel Adapter

  Jet disconnected to much than 200 countries with this compact adapter, and you tin support each your gadgets charged. It's casual to descent retired EU, UK, and US plugs, and you tin rotate the pins for sockets successful Australia and China. The plugs fastener securely successful place, this charger is lightweight, and it has plentifulness of ports that tin present a generous charging complaint of up to 65 watts.

  This is the apical prime successful our best question adapters guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Extended Battery

  Anker 622 MagGo Portable Charger (A1614)

  You tin support your iPhone going for a small longer oregon bring it backmost from the dormant with this useful magnetic powerfulness slope that sticks to the backmost unobtrusively to present up to 5,000 mAh. It besides has a useful wee fold-out stand.

  This is our prime of the best MagSafe powerfulness banks.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Kids' Headphones

  Altec Lansing Kid Safe 2-in-2 ANC Headphones

  Volume-limited headphones are indispensable for protecting your wee one's ears, and they tin springiness you immoderate bid from the din oregon repetitive cartoons oregon unusual YouTube videos. This comfy brace from Altec Lansing dependable large and boast progressive sound cancellation, making them perfect for roadworthy trips.

  These look successful our best kids’ headphones guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Cable Keyring

  Rolling Square InCharge X 6-in-1 Cable

  Your giftee volition ne'er beryllium without that charging cablegram they request ever again if you snag them 1 of these useful multi-cable keyrings. It boasts six charging combinations, with USB-C and USB-A connected 1 extremity of the abbreviated braided cable, and Lightning, MicroUSB, and USB-C connected the other.

  This useful gadget is successful our best USB-C cables guide.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Square Eyes

  Tiny Circuits TinyTV 2

  Cute table ornament oregon crafter's delight, this tiny, afloat moving TV tin beryllium loaded with hours of video. Home movies, euphony videos, oregon your favourite films and shows tin beryllium loaded connected here. It adjacent has a tiny distant control. It's presently retired of stock, but hopefully volition beryllium backmost for acquisition soon.

  I precocious raved astir this.

• Photograph: Simon Hill

  Apple Power

  ESR Qi2 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station

Simon Hill has been investigating and penning astir tech for much than 15 years. He is simply a elder writer for WIRED. You tin find his erstwhile enactment astatine Business Insider, Reviewed, TechRadar, Android Authority, USA Today, Digital Trends, and galore different places. He loves each things tech, but particularly smartphones,... Read more

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