Top-7 best gifts for gamers and geeks for the New Year 2017

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New Year is approaching and many people prefer to choose gifts in advance. Moreover, "on the nose" Black Friday, a day of grandiose sales( November 25).Are you looking for the perfect gift for a "boom", a person obsessed with high technology or do not know what to give a gamer? We collected the 7 best gifts for gamers and geeks, which will guarantee an ideal holiday for hardcore gamers and hi-tech connoisseurs.

Contents:

7. Daydream View

  • 6. NES Classic Edition
  • 5. Logitech G230 Stereo Headset
  • 4. Google Home
  • 3. PlayStation VR
  • 2. Apple iPhone 7 Plus
  • 1. Google Pixel XL
  • 7. Daydream View

    The price is 79 dollars.

    This headset, designed to work with the platform Daydream VR, built into the Android Nougat, will be an excellent gift for the boom. It is comfortable to wear and easy to set up. So far, with Daydream View Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones are working, but new gadgets will be added to their company as the scale transition to Android 7.1 Nougat is implemented. You can buy Daydream View on the Google Store.

    6. NES Classic Edition

    Price - 60 dollars.

    If last year as an idea of ​​a gift to a gamer for the new year we offered advanced game consoles, then in 2016 the crisis made its adjustments to the list. Miniature and improved version of the cult console. Its sales started in the US on November 11 and the console enjoyed a frenzied popularity, "scattered" among customers in minutes. NES Classic Edition comes with the best games ever created, including Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Pac Man and Super Mario Bros.3.

    "Karaulte" prefix on Amazon, eBay, BestBuy and other venues, you can still have time to buy it before the New Year.

    5. Logitech G230 Stereo Headset

    Price - 30 dollars.

    Not all good gaming heads cost hundreds of dollars. The budgetary Logitech G230 offers great sound for its price, has comfortable large ear pads and is equipped with a microphone with noise reduction function, ideal for long multi-user sessions. And although the G230 is made for PC, it comes with an analog cable. And this means that it can work with PS4, Xbox One and even mobile devices. The best gift for the gamer on the New Year 2017.

    4. Google Home

    Price - 129 dollars.

    A smart speaker that can be controlled by voice. It can play audio tracks, podcasts or radio from various services such as Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube Music, Pandora and TuneIn. Google Home will also tell you the latest news regarding weather, finance, sports and other things. The speaker can be connected to devices such as Chromecast, Nest and Philips Hue to turn off the light or adjust the temperature as desired by the host. You can buy it on the Google Store. If the device you can not afford, you can find a cheaper alternative in our rating of portable Bluetooth speakers.

    3. PlayStation VR

    The price is 399 dollars.

    One of the most expensive things in the ranking of the best New Year gifts for hi-tech lovers. Suitable as a collective New Year's gift to the chief who likes to play video games on the PlayStation 4 console during his spare time.

    Together with the virtual reality helmet you will get a headset, a processor module, headphones, various cables and a PlayStation VR demo disk. The kit does not include the camera PS Camera and PS Move controller, so as not to burden additional expenses of those who have these things from the previous version of the PS3 console. A kit with these devices will cost $ 499.

    2. Apple iPhone 7 Plus

    The price is 769 dollars.

    Even if the one( or that) to whom the newest "iPhone" is designed and does not belong to the geeks category, he will appreciate this gift for the New Year on its merit. The dream of many modern girls and boys is equipped with a dual 12MP camera( with a wide-angle and telephoto lens) with excellent optical stabilization, an A10 Fusion chip, a new 5.5 "Retina HD screen with the widest range of colors, large speakers and runs under iOS 10. A detailed review of the iPhone 7 Plusread on our website.

    1. Google Pixel XL

    The price is 749 dollars.

    Tops the list of the most desired New Year's techno gifts of 2016, a powerful Android phone with a top-end iron, and a mass of necessary and not so much functions, such as Google Assistant( digital assistant).To call an assistant it's enough to say "Ok Google", though it does not always work in noisy places. The smartphone is equipped with 128 GB of memory, a 3450 mAh battery, a 5.5 "Quad HD display, a quad-core 2.15 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and two 12.3 and 8 megapixel cameras. And, unlike the number of the second of our top-7, it has a 3.5-mm audio jack. Perfect for the latest games, streaming video and music downloads.