Gadgetory

this holiday season deck the home with tech the 130 dollar Google home is an internet-connected speaker powered by the Google assistance it also responds to voice commands to play music check the weather or control smart home devices like lights another gadget you can talk to is the $90 Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet it comes with Alexa Amazon's voice assistant timer for five minutes five minutes starting now with a 12 hour battery and an 8 inch screen it has 16 gigabytes of storage and access to music and video content for Amazon Prime subscribers to capture the action from all angles the $300 Ricoh theta SC is an easy-to-use 360-degree camera take full HD video and still images just by pressing a button you can easily share video to sites like Facebook avoid shaky hands ruining holiday videos with the $99 grip and shoot stabilizer squeeze the trigger to take photos or videos on any phone it also has a tripod kickstand for hands-free shots then you can share those memories with the 130 dollar life print Bluetooth printer it turns videos from your phone or on social media into augmented reality prints hold your phone over the photo and it plays the video on-screen Microsoft's $99 surface style reinvents the wheel the giant puck controls your pc including changing the volume or scrolling on-screen the dial works on PC is running the Windows 10 anniversary update but the best features like changing colors and creating animations only work on the surface studio for now for more holiday gift ideas visit cnet.com and Cisco Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS News