holiday gift guide

Black Friday/Cyber Monday may be over, but your holiday shopping is likely not, so we'll keep excerpting our new Tech Buyer's Guide to arm you with PopSci's favorite gear and buying advice. Here are our picks for pocket audio players. Check out the guide or the iPhone-app version to see our favorite full-size players and info on 15 more product categories.

Black Friday/Cyber Monday may be over, but your holiday shopping is likely not, so we'll keep excerpting our new Tech Buyer's Guide to arm you with PopSci's favorite gear and buying advice. Here are our picks for pocket audio players. Check out the guide or the iPhone-app version to see our favorite full-size players and info on 15 more product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks and our buying advice for netbooks. Check out the guide for our picks in full-size laptops, as well as in 15 other product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks and our buying advice for netbooks. Check out the guide for our picks in full-size laptops, as well as in 15 other product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks for point-and-shoot cameras and our buying advice for digital cameras in general. Check out the guide for our picks in DSLR and Micro 4/3 cameras, as well as 15 other product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks for point-and-shoot cameras and our buying advice for digital cameras in general. Check out the guide for our picks in DSLR and Micro 4/3 cameras, as well as 15 other product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks for bargain flat-screen TVs and our buying advice for TVs in general. Check out the guide for our picks for high-end TVs, as well as 15 other product categories.

Each day this week leading up to Black Friday, we'll excerpt a chunk of our new Tech Buyer's Guide here on the site to arm you with the skills and the picks to get the most from your weekend shopping madness. Here are our picks for bargain flat-screen TVs and our buying advice for TVs in general. Check out the guide for our picks for high-end TVs, as well as 15 other product categories.

Make magazine has just put up its $20 and under holiday gift guide, chock full of starter electronics kits like a barebones Arduino and tools for your favorite tinkerer. Or if you're the only one who solders in your circle, pick up a few kits now and give away the finished product.

I've built a number of kits from Make and they're a great way to learn and hone your DIY electronics skills, with super-clear instructions. After the jump, I add my five additions to their list, with an eye toward encouraging the young hijinks-prone Makers-in-training on your list.

Ah winter, when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of Christmakwanza. This holiday season, we hit up the entire staff of PopSci to see what they're dreaming of, what they're expecting, and what they'd recommend to you and yours. Come for the robot butlers, Teslas and aura-capturing cameras; stay for the eminently affordable headphones, DIY kits and more. Check it out here.