10 top tech gadgets for the holidays

It's time for tech giants (and potential challengers) to battle for supremacy under the Christmas tree, and a place in consumers' wired-in lives for the year ahead.

By Michael Brush, MSN Money

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riley 140
Nov 27, 2012 5:48AM
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Headphones:  Anybody out there heard of In Ear Monitors from JH Audio?  "ears worn by rockstarts".
kreg speed (creig999)
Nov 27, 2012 5:09AM
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I just bought a kindle fire as an upgrade to my Kindle E-reader.It has a very good color screen and can do e-mail  and the reading books is better because you can read in the dark but the battery life sux. Now I may have waited to get aaaaa Kindle HD tablet. The price is what got me to buy it. At $120 it seemed a good deal. I suggest get the Kindle Fire HD  or opt for the Nook that can can be read in low or no light. You still can't go wrong with the plain Kindle e-reader with WIFI and cellular connection. IT's cheap and reliable and I still use it because all my devices are synced into the amazon cloud so I can access whatever I have from any tablet anywhere anytime.
Atroponic
Nov 27, 2012 5:07AM
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I prefer reading about theses "must haves" rather than going into debt to have them. My better senses tells me "you don't really need any of them." Life really does go on after all.
dronester 1
Nov 27, 2012 4:57AM
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I just bought a 10" tablet from China that outperforms all but the Samsung Galaxy tablet and some of the other higher end ones from ASUS and Apple. It cost less than half the price and runs the newest version of Android. Only problem with Chinese tablets are that if it has problems, you have to pay return shipping and whatever fees are associated with ships to China. So definitely go with a company that offers frequent firmware updates to fix issues that may crop up. Still, $200 for an HD screen that's 10.1" is just fine with me, even if I'm only going to watch movies, or play games.  
kelli17
Nov 27, 2012 4:08AM
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I prefer real books to digital and real people, but I love the WII and would love a new camera, problem the cost, I fear people r charging themselves back into major debt to get these so called must have items...
Belbro Stores
Nov 23, 2012 9:58AM
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It will all be on plastic to file bankruptcy on next year for the New year res.
steveG1956
Nov 21, 2012 10:46AM
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i guess i'm old.  the only interesting item to me is the thermostat
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