If you haven’t finished your holiday shopping just yet, here are a few gift ideas that you can feel good about giving. Each of these cool sustainable tech items also help to protect the environment.
For those who throw the best dance parties: Philips Hue Light Bulb
They’ll love taking their party to the next level by setting their new colored bulbs to music. You’ll love that the bulbs are ENERGY STAR® certified, meaning they will use less energy while protecting the environment.
We know people love to give the gift of tech over the holidays, just as much as they like to surprise and delight loved ones with unique presents. That’s why Best Buy is offering its first-ever Special Edition Tech collection.
Our tech experts have worked with leading brands to curate a one-of-a-kind collection of products, with most only available at Best Buy, for the holiday season. These products are available in limited quantities. So when they’re gone, they’re gone.
This list of Special Edition Tech gadgets includes: an exclusive Shinola turntable, a Bazooka-pink kate spade new york activity tracker, and a Lenovo Yoga laptop individually numbered with a painted depth cover
Starting Sunday, Dec.
From cooking Thanksgiving dinner for your family to baking gingerbread cookies for friends, you’re likely to put some serious time in the kitchen this holiday season. Lucky for you, your No. 1 kitchen helper might be in your pocket or on the counter: your smartphone or tablet.
Here are three ways your mobile device can help make your holiday cooking experience easy and fun.
Some of the best recipes out there aren’t just in your cookbooks or scrawled on notecards – they’re on the internet.
The Best Buy holiday “Top Tech” list contains the hottest new and emerging technologies handpicked by Best Buy’s experts, from virtual reality and smart home products to drones and hair dryers (yes, hair dryers).
You’ll also find the latest laptops, gaming systems, TVs, cameras and more.
You can learn about, preorder or buy them now in Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com.
Check out the slideshow to learn more about these hot holiday products.
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Catch today’s Google Doodle?
The illustration celebrates the 90th anniversary of John Logie Baird’s first public showing of a live television broadcast. Baird’s TV displayed a blurry, but recognizable, face of a person speaking while manipulating a ventriloquist dummy to a group of London scientists and one journalist.
While the 1926 broadcast on the small 3.5 x 2 inch screen (think roughly the size of an iPhone 5 screen) was groundbreaking, The Daily Telegraph notes that it left the lone journalist in attendance skeptical as to whether the new medium would take off.
Everything is connected to the internet today; it’s called the Internet of Things for a reason, right? The average American household has at least eight devices connected to the home wireless network.
[callout]Check out this Geek Squad video
about upgrading your home network.
Learn more by reading Best Buy’s
home networking buyer’s guide. [/callout]Being so connected is great, but when you have that many devices under one roof working at the same time, it bogs down the Wi-Fi.
And a bogged-down network only means one thing: buffering.
What’s so cool about the latest Dyson vacuum that recently showed up at Best Buy?
Our expert Blue Shirt Zach Ross knows. We sent him to Dyson HQ to talk with a head engineer to get the dirt on the new, high-tech Ball Animal.
Zach learned how the Ball Animal – available now at Best Buy stores and BestBuy.com – is easy to maneuver, works on a variety of surfaces and comes with a tangle-free turbine tool.
Watch the video to learn more, including the strangest thing a Dyson vacuum has sucked up during testing.
You don’t need a high-tech headset to see that 2016 will be the year that virtual reality (VR) goes mainstream.
The technology — which allows users to immerse themselves in lifelike locales, such as a packed concert or the depths of the ocean — has a major presence at CES 2016 this week. There are more than 40 exhibitors in the show’s Gaming & Virtual Reality Marketplace, which is 77 percent larger than a year ago.
Virtual reality first became available to consumers last year with the Samsung Gear VR (yes, Best Buy already has it).
Much of CES is about looking to the future of technology, but it’s also an opportunity to celebrate the most innovative products of the present.
[callout] To shop the hottest trends
from CES 2016 now, visit BestBuy.com.[/callout]Earlier this week, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced its Innovations Award honorees for CES 2016. The annual competition recognizes outstanding design and engineering in consumer tech products.
The 2016 honorees include everything from a robotic bartender to a 3-D-printed hand. Those products have been on display for attendees to view at a CES showcase.
Smart home technology is no longer the new kid on the block at CES. In fact, this year’s displays make it clear this category is growing up fast.
From thermostats and light bulbs to door locks and security cameras, homeowners have access to more connected products than ever before. And smartphone apps make it easy to control all of those so-called “Internet of Things” devices, whether you’re in the living room or on the go.
The Consumer Technology Association, the group that runs CES, expects sales of connected home products to increase 21 percent in 2016, to 8.9 million units sold.
The newest big-screen TVs are always a top draw on the CES show floor, providing an early look at the drool-worthy technology that will be heading to Best Buy stores and consumers’ living rooms in the year ahead.
Recent years have featured the launch of 4K Ultra HD and OLED displays. There have been 100-inch screens and TVs so incredibly thin they make your smartphone look fat.
[callout] Need help choosing the right TV for your home?
Best Buy’s TV buying guide will get you up to speed.
Smart car technology isn’t taking its foot off the gas as it zooms into CES 2016 this week.
Nine automakers and more than 100 tech companies are showing off the hottest trends, from interactive touchscreens to dash cameras to self-driving cars.
The connected car is fast becoming the standard for new vehicles. Fortunately, you don’t have to take on a big, new car payment to upgrade your ride to “smart car” status. And, considering the average car on the road in the U.S.