Gadgetory

Mother's Day this year is May 8th everyone don't miss it and don't go with the same old collection of flowers and candy you send every year I'm Molly wood in for Bryan Cooley with a scene at top 5 the top 5 tech gifts for mom coming in at number 5 it's the Amazon Kindle if she doesn't have a Kindle yet people now is the time I mean the ad-supported model is only 114 bucks just make sure you pair it with an Amazon gift card for book buying and some sort of certificate for several hours of alone time for reading preferably by a pool somewhere in at number four get her a smartphone we have a lot of favorites in this category from the obvious iPhone 4 to the HTC Thunderbolt 2 the shift 4G on Sprint the main goal though is getting mom a gift that will help her take pictures get on Facebook text with you when you don't have time to talk get her email and play games on the go if she doesn't have a smartphone yet this is the year to make it happen coming in at number three the Microsoft Xbox Kinect every mom I know right now is loving the Kinect for one reason dance central it is an awesomely fun workout and the kids love it too if you don't have an Xbox it's a great bundle and if you do the Kinect add-on makes it less of a boy's toy and more of a family console of course if your mom is anything like me you can get her Kinect and the new Mortal Kombat game I'm not trying to stereotype here much at a very strong number two the iPad 2 I got my mom and iPad and we've never been better Facebook friends it's the perfect email web and video watching device for Mom especially if the dude in her life hogs the remote plus hello Angry Birds Rio and I can tell you from personal experience the iPad is the best kid entertainment and education tool you will ever own kid airplane iPad she will thank you and finally my number one tech gift idea for mom this year is my number one tech gift idea always a Roku streaming media box the Roku is the perfect gift it's as cheap as 59 bucks now with no monthly fee plus it's dead simple to set up and you'll be watching streaming movies internet video and don't forget that every episode of Mad Men is coming to Netflix Instant Streaming and if there's one constant in the universe it's this we ladies love to watch Don Draper okay now I'm stereotyping but don't try to pretend that it's not true because it is true and that's it for this edition of CNN top five I'm Molly wood and you can find all the rest of our top five videos over at scene at tv.com