Christmas Gift Ideas 2010: The Best Tech Gifts Under $100 (PHOTOS)

This year, the hottest tech gadgets include tablet PCs, eReaders, smartphones and set-top entertainment units. Unfortunately, the price tags on some of these items can cool off shoppers faster than a cold snap.

If your holiday budget is in the red, we can help you save some green with these 19 geeky gifts for under $100.

Check out our slideshow (below), featuring cheap tech gifts from bluetooth peripherals to gaming equipment, fashion accessories to DVDs. Vote for the gift you'd most like to receive, and clue us in to other great gift ideas in the comments. Then, take a look through a roundup of the best cameras for any budget, as well as our holiday guide to tablets and eReaders.

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The $69 Tocky by Nanda Home will never let you sleep through a meeting again. This alarm clock not only wakes you on time, but it also rolls off the bedside table and across the floor so you can't hit the snooze button. The device also lets you record custom sounds or upload MP3s.

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The $69 Tocky by Nanda Home will never let you sleep through a meeting again. This alarm clock not only wakes you on time, but it also rolls off the bedside table and across the floor so you can't hit the snooze button. The device also lets you record custom sounds or upload MP3s.

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I'd rather get coal HOT!

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[Sydracer]

08:33 AM on 12/24/2010

I bought a :clocky" about 5 years ago. It is the same premise as this "tocky" however it was a piece of chit right out of the box. I had seen hillarious videos on you tube, but it delivered nothing of the sort. Big failure on Christmas morning joke that year.

[fourthestatepost]

02:34 PM on 12/19/2010

just get someone a blackberry playbook and enjoy their eternal gratitude.

[Retrofuturistic]

02:41 PM on 12/16/2010

Hmmm. There's a new Polaroid, but they're not supporting the old Polaroids, in terms of still making the film to be used in therm.

[O K Ali]

08:26 AM on 12/16/2010

I picked up a Samsung Captivate on Amazon for $30, but new subscribers can get it for a penny.

[loki]

06:48 AM on 12/16/2010

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-12/segas-new-urinal-based-gaming-interface-lets-you-pee-points

how did they miss this one?

[mados123]

12:30 AM on 12/16/2010

Returning the Roku XDS I got as a gift for the Sony SMP-N100. Together with the free TVersity, streaming local media is a breeze unlike with the Roku. Of course, all the online media access is possible too (costs around $120 for the box).

[calilife4me]

12:07 AM on 12/16/2010

I'm down with the old school Polaroid, Cooking for Geeks, Tunebug, & fingerless mitts. Spend the extra $50 for Kinect if you have an X-Box.

[HappyMarsden]

11:43 PM on 12/15/2010

"Cell phones can collect more bacteria than a toilet seat"

The way I see it, if you're shidding on your cell phone, you probably have more problems than germs to worry about anyway.

[JWerner]

04:32 AM on 12/17/2010

Note they said toilet SEAT, not the bowl. Unless you're taking a dump right on the seat, or you're the kind of person who 'sprays' their own toilet seat. . .the only thing that regularly comes into contact with the seat is your butt cheeks. Whereas with a cell phone. . .your hands come into contact with a very wide assortment of germs. Touching surfaces, sneezing, coughing, shaking hands, eating. . .it's a long list.

[HappyMarsden]

12:23 PM on 12/17/2010

OMG... I'm not shaking hands with anyone ever again.

Not even myself.

[jws2346]

11:17 PM on 12/15/2010

Alright, I do like dem' fingerless mittens, the perfect gift for an Eskimo. And the sanitizer thing, the perfect gift for that Eskimo in case the germs have fingerless mittens too.

[calilife4me]

12:02 AM on 12/16/2010

My mother in law made our family some fingerless mitts last Christmas. Best ever! Wear them all the time.

[ApolloniaCreed]

11:03 PM on 12/15/2010

Apple TV should have been on this list...

[Chuck SmithDewey]

11:13 PM on 12/15/2010

Yes, its my FAVORITE tech gadget and a must have for anyone already using an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch -- they all work as remotes for this magical device!

[OneSkeptic]

10:14 PM on 12/15/2010

Cautionary note about Blackberry and T-Mobile. I've found T-Mobile to be less than honest in it's dealings with me, and my Blackberry Storm is average at best.

[calilife4me]

11:47 PM on 12/15/2010

T-Mobile = Awesome service in San Francisco. Never had a problem. Maybe the problem is your rubber-band phone. Storms aren't great phones.

[tissa]

10:10 PM on 12/15/2010

Really?
Flirtexting and heated gloves?
 
Please, instead make a charitable donation in your friends name to a charity. Thanks.

[alaskan]

11:04 PM on 12/15/2010

I donated $$ to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (from the show Whale Wars) and made cards telling my gift-ees where the donation went. Lame, right? I thought so, too, so I attached the cards to a bottle of wine (even found one with a whale on the label) and wrote "Have a toast to the whales you saved this Christmas" in the card.

Who's gonna complain about alcohol? :)

[tissa]

11:08 PM on 12/15/2010

Fanned for creativity!!! Good for you, well done!

[My Good Babushka]

10:09 PM on 12/15/2010

Wherever you go shopping, be nice to the retail workers.

[JWerner]

04:34 AM on 12/17/2010

This. It makes their day a LOT easier. If they just had a litany of snide, rude customers, they're gonna notice you being nice and patient.

[lisakaz2]

10:06 PM on 12/15/2010

I'm hoping this is a good place to post an off-topic problem involving technology. I made a tape for a video audition but had the resolution too high. The tape is way too big a file. I'd like to find a way to save/store it at a lesser resolution if possible but my computer seems only to transfer the file as originally done. I used a Vado HD recorder. Does anyone have a solution that will reduce a 108 MB clip to about 30 MB?

[tissa]

10:12 PM on 12/15/2010

That is extremely difficult to do......maybe you can consult a computer place....

[alaskan]

10:30 PM on 12/15/2010

It's not hard to do -- there are many, many programs designed to reformat videos, and lots of them are free.

[alaskan]

10:27 PM on 12/15/2010

What kind of video file is it? mpeg4? Are you using a Mac or a PC?

[lisakaz2]

10:30 PM on 12/15/2010

It's AVI and I'm using PC with XP on it.

[dollyllama10]

09:30 PM on 12/15/2010

Wow, 20 items I'll never need.