Gadgetory

ah summer what a great time to be young out from school they spent aimlessly wandering around with your friends free from any sense of real responsibility parents I know you love them but let's be real you can't wait for school to start back up this year disguise your resentment of their youth with some great pet gifts I'm Donald Bell and in this top 5 I'll be counting down a handful of my favorite tech for students pick from scene that's extensive back-to-school gift guide starting off at number five a portable bluetooth speaker kids have so many ways to stream music and store music on their phones these days but the only time you actually hear music over speakers is in the car to change that by them and maybe yourself a great portable bluetooth speaker our senior editors pick for the best option under fifty dollars as the cambridge soundworks UNS I don't know when the Swedish Chef started naming products for cambridge soundworks but it's a great value and it comes in a couple different colors too first step up try the Logitech UE boom which looks kind of Swedish but actually has a name I can pronounce number for keeps the music theme going headphones I put this one higher on the list because a good pair of headphones is also great for blocking out noise it's also a good way to get some peace and quiet when your roommate refuses to turn down there oontz and also it's a good low level defense against creepy guys who are trying to talk to your daughter for under hundred dollars check out the v-moda remix for a stylish great sounding pair of in ear headphones but for maximum dbag repulsion and over-ear headphone like the sony MDR v6 will do the trick nicely coming in at number 3 in HD TV now I know it sounds counterproductive but if you send the kid off with your old Zenith and a pair of bunny ears you're basically forcing them to befriend that kid with too many Bob Marley posters and enough trust fund money to have a pioneer kuro in their dorm room for under four hundred dollars you can get the vizio III twenty iao and spare them from being held hostage at a brew your own kombucha party number two is a slam dunk for both parent and student it's the apple macbook air thousand dollars guess you want have seen that's favorite laptops it's beautiful it's fast has all day battery life and best of all it's incredibly light you think about all the books your kids off to lug around settling them with the heavy laptop just seems cruel laptop like this is good for productivity and it's good for their spine all right and finally my top pick from the cns list of the best back-to-school tech gifts the samsung galaxy s4 our editors consider this the best smartphone on the market right now and unless your kid is nerdy enough to be as phone snob already this phone will seriously rock their world like any good parent though you should give that phone with the caveat that they have to answer the thing when you call them they have the whole rest of their adult lives to blow you off until then it's your job to check in and make sure they're not being forced to listen to Jack Johnson so there you go five tech gifts that will help bribe your kids off the couch and back to school for more back-to-school recommendations head over back to school cnet com more top 5s top five dot cnet com Donnell Bell thanks for watching you