Christmas Gift Ideas for Gadget Lovers

Watch a group of men arriving at a pub & you'll understand. Each man, as they sits down, will place his mobile phone squarely in front of him on the table. The scene resembles a poker table, which is exactly what it is. An opening gambit, designed to undermine an opponent, might be 'Isn't that the Motorola elderly hat that came out a couple of months ago. I listen to there is been dreadful issues with signal strength'. The game progresses with the elimination of players whose mobile rings are not up to snuff until player remains, the alpha gadget male of the group. In a recent game I observed, the unassailable opening took the form 'Have you seen my new mobile. It arrived direct from Nokia in Finland this morning. It is not being launched in the United Kingdom for0 days & they have let me have it in a colour which is reserved for the Japanese market.' The gadget lover's equivalent of a royal flush!

I'm going to let you in to the secret as to why men become gadget lovers. It is not that they haven't fully escaped their childhood. Nor is it that, magpie-like, they are drawn to everything shiny or sparkling. No, gadget loving is all tied in to the alpha-male, leader of the pack mentality which means that the male with the most peacockish display receives all the attention.

The hottest property this Christmas looks like its going be the Kymera Magic Wand, which is a universal remote control built to look like a magician's wand, or perhaps a conductor's baton. The promotion material is much aimed at the Hogwarts generation, with the user guide in the kind of a sorcerer's manual. The company has perhaps missed a trick since the wand is ingenious, fun & above all a practical replacement for the universal remote control which will appeal across the generations. The wand can be taught to control any remote controlled device such as TV, HiFi or lighting using a range of wand movement which include taps, swishes & flicks. With thirteen defined wand gestures, you can replicate all the functionality of a standard remote control while pretending to place a spell on the next door neighbour's cat or conduct the opening of Beethoven's Fifth. Fun, functionality & frivolity all rolled in to great Christmas gift for a gadget lover.

So how do you approach purchasing a Christmas gift for a gadget loving male, in case you don't share his in-depth knowledge of the world of gadgetry? Assuming that you don't have an limitless budget to play with, the thing to search out is a gadget that is new, fun & which, if it doesn't hit the mark, you can laugh off as being something of a joke.