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CNET Top 5 - Luxury tech gifts

2014-11-28
if you're shopping for an eccentric tech loving millionaire for the holidays you're gonna need some help to come up with some ideas that are a breed apart from Roku's and iPhones and that's where I come in i'm donna bell and this top 5 i'm counting down a cherry picked selection of some of our most luxurious tech gifts pulled from our holiday tech gift guide and sorted by price starting things off at number 5 the DJI phantom 2 vision plus affordably priced at fourteen hundred dollars this drone is equally adept at capturing gorgeous gimbal stabilized HD video from the air as well as chasing the less fortunate off your lawn built-in GPS means that you can program it with your own flight path around the golf course at number four the audis LCD 3 quite possibly the best sounding headphones in the world according to our resident audiophile Steve Guttenberg these are handcrafted in the USA and use a unique planar magnetic driver to create their sound the price is 1945 dollars you can think of them as beats for billionaires at number three a mac pro apple's top-of-the-line computer starts at three thousand dollars and it looks like a cremation urn for a supervillain pair it with a 4k monitor and you have a workstation that could satisfy any creative whim you could dream of is it overkill you bet what fun is being rich if you can't go over the top speaking of overkill at number two the kibo mega with 24 terabytes of storage you'll never have to delete anything off your DVR again that's enough to hold four thousand hours of HD video the price tag is five thousand dollars but if you think of it is right a dollar 25 per hour it almost sounds reasonable but when it comes to ostentatious high tech luxury one item Trump's them all at number one a gigantic TV 4k no less and as you probably already know that 4k resolution only becomes noticeable on a really big screen so let's go with a really big tie for first place at eight thousand dollars our modest option is the unnecessarily curved 28 inch samsung UN 78 hu 9000 I figure if the size doesn't impress the curves are there for a secondary WTF factor but if you really want to see the power of reckless spending in action try out the Sony 4k short throw projector for a mere fifty thousand dollars you can turn a wall in your mansion into a deliriously huge crystal clear 4k TV pick that poor people so there you go six luxury gifts for the tech loving 1% you can find even more gift ideas including the best gifts under fifty dollars over at cnet com / holiday gift guide and for more top 5s from me top 5 cnet com Donald Bell thanks for watching
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