As the holiday season draws near, finding the perfect gift can be a challenge. For those looking to impress with something truly unique and cutting-edge, high-tech gadgets offer a world of possibilities.
From smart home innovations that make life more convenient, to immersive gaming gear that transports you to new worlds, this year’s tech gifts are sure to thrill anyone on your list. Whether you’re shopping for a tech enthusiast, a gadget lover, or someone who’s always seeking the latest trends, these hi-tech Christmas gift ideas are sure to bring joy – and a little bit of futuristic flair – under the tree.
Price: £199.99
An AI-powered smart chess board with colour-coded coaching lights, and online connectivity through the dedicated app. GoChess Mini isn’t just about playing the game; it’s about improving skills, tracking progress, and connecting with other players. Offering three play modes, users can play GoChess Mini face-to-face with an opponent or alone in AI mode (with 32 levels of difficulty to choose from). Additionally, they can connect to popular chess platforms (Lichess and Chess.com) and play against people around the world or solve challenging puzzles and revisit historical games.
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip6
Price: £1,049 – but you can currently get £250 cashback
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip6 is a versatile and powerful foldable smartphone, great for users who want a unique blend of portability, style, and performance. The super display, decent camera, and powerful performance make it an appealing choice. Storage options range from 256GB to 512GB, but there’s no microSD slot, so users need to choose wisely based on their needs. The Z Flip 6 runs on Android 14 with Samsung’s One UI, offering a pretty refined experience with useful features like Flex mode, which allows the phone to be partially folded and used hands-free for activities like video calls or watching content.
Price: £199.99
The big 10L drawer comes with two cooking zones or one large cooking sector, which means if you want to roast a big beef joint, you can. If you want to roast a smaller beef joint and then the veg in the next zone, you can do that by adding the divider down the middle. The Dual Blaze technology means that the air fryer cooks food from the top and the bottom and in turn backs up the claim that it is cost-efficient and time-saving. In fact it cooks meals 65% quicker than a traditional oven would.
Price: £129.99
This chunky, rugged watch designed for the outdoor life, perfect for wearing when ‘scaling rocky cliffs, diving into the depths of the ocean, or navigating through dense forests’ and that it can withstand ‘freezing temperatures to scorching heat, sandstorms, and torrential rain’. There’s no doubt the watch is built to last. Mirbro says it has passed 15 military standard tests to guarantee reliability in extreme environments. With a 10 ATM water resistance rating, the watch can endure depths of up to 100 meters, while you’ll never need to worry about dust and the like.
Samsung Freestyle Projector 2nd Generation
Price: £599
A portable projector which can display screen size from 30” to 100”. Its easily adjustable and working on both walls and ceilings – perfect for watching TV show in any space. The Freestyle produces a clear and sharp picture – just turn it on and let The Freestyle work its magic. 360-degree sound also makes for immersive viewing wherever you watch, and it also has a Gaming Hub for those who like to game on the go – no console required.
Price: £383
The vest is packed with tech. The first key element is the control panel, the hub of everything you need and it’s here that you can control the volume and sensitivity of the haptic sensors. Those sensors are called transducers, again, every day is a school day for me when it comes to things like this. These circular sensors are what allows the vest to work its magic and provide you with the vibration and sound interactions. That’s essentially what the vest does, through a series of these sub woofer sensors at different parts of the body – it turns the audio into physical sensation and allows a 4D experience to the game you are playing.
Price: £199.99
The S1 offers 4k coverage from both the front and rear cams, which already sets it apart from most competitors. This is where the cameras really shines as it gives you brilliant captures from whichever way you are looking. You can get 2160p video from the cameras, with a very decent field of view from both. Night-time and low-light driving conditions are effectively addressed by the advanced night vision technology of the S1 Ultra. The front camera, with its F1.8 large aperture and 140° wide-angle 7-glass lens, and the rear camera, featuring an F2.0 aperture and 112° wide-angle lens, ensure clear and detailed footage regardless of the lighting conditions.
Price: £85.99
Very high quality for the money you are paying. Effective noise-canceling headphones, to a point. They sound great, they look pretty sophisticated, and they are comfortable to wear. You can get some noise cancellers that are total blankets to all exterior sound, that’s not the case here, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do a great job for the money. That ability to alter the sound on the app to adjust to your surroundings, helps a great deal. The bass boost is really noticeable and offers a very deep, impressively rich sound through the bass drivers that will improve any material, very good for example on calls. The built in microphone for calls is to a good standard, certainly better than some I have used previously. This will do a good job for you.