Fear of robots is passe. Time to embrace the harbingers of humanity's enslavement before they evolve the Hive Mind or take away your job. These 7 gifts skirt the line between functional and fun, and help make your transition to acquiesence an easy one. There's Pleo the playful dino-pet, a surrogate device that uses an iPad to Facetime-in tele-commuters, a gutter-cleaning Roomba and more "non-hostile" robot pals.
The Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor (pictured above) feeds fauna vitality stats back to a horticulturalist's iPhone. Check out more green-thumb gifts here.
You can't stop them from checking every sunburn and skin rash against the Merck Manual, but you can gift them something that'll help keep their health in check.
We did the shopping for you! 339 gadget gifts, from external monitors to robot toys to rides on commercial spaceships. Here's the web's best list of holiday tech!
Look at that baby. Why's she so happy? Maybe it's because she lives in a smart home equipped with the Baby Ping Wi-Fi monitor. Or maybe she loves waking up each morning to coffee, eggs, and toast--all made simultanesouly in the ThinkGeek 3-in-1 Breakfast Station. It's gotta be the coffee.
