It’s Like Having a House Full of TV Elves

You don’t have to spend a fortune to buy nice tech gifts. There are joy and glad tidings to be had in reasonably priced gadgets, too. Leave it to David Pogue to sniff out 12 delightful and useful ones.

The Last Day of Techness

Admit it. You have multiple remotes for your TV system. And you’ve always quietly hated it. And you’ve always meant to do something about it, but you’re busy.

The Harmony Home Hub is the answer. A little plastic capsule that knows about 250,000 components: TVs, sound systems, Blu-ray players, TiVos, game consoles, even Nest thermostats. You just tell it which ones you own, and it programs itself. One button, like “Watch Apple TV” or “Watch Netflix,” powers up the entire system and sets it to the right inputs.

You control it with your phone. You can also get it with a physical remote you can leave on the couch for the babysitter.

It all works, and it’s great.

But the Big Jolly Day is almost upon us. Get ordering!

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