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Are you looking for the perfect gift for the tech obsessed? Here's Eric Landskronner with TechCheck. Continuing our look at last minute tech gifts for the holidays, I'm back with John Velasco, senior editor over at Tom's Guide. John, let's start with something for the photography enthusiast, shift cam smartphone lenses and camera accessories. Yeah, so I shoot a lot of photos over at Tom's Guide with all the phones, and these are the shift cam lenses. They're great. They up your photography, your videography, they're swapple you could swap them out. They also make different types of successes, which I love. For example, you have this one here which basically camera grip. Works with different types of phones. You have also a light, an LED light stand, but they're just nice and swappable. OK, now different types of lenses. Yeah, there's anamorphic, there's telephoto, macro, wide angle, so a whole range for you to up your photography and video. All right, now let's move on to the next one. This is the night vision binoculars. Tell me about these, John. Yeah, so these are great, um, these are night vision binoculars, uh, 4K resolution, the Casso Seymour. Um, I do a lot. Astrophotography, so it's hard to see the night sky, but with this you turn on the night vision, it's crystal clear. So if you see anything interesting in the sky, you'll be able to take better images and video than your smartphone. So you might see some of those drones basically is what you're saying. All right. All right, now let's talk about some ear candy starting with these, John. First of all, these, these are huge attention grabbing, sophisticated looking. You remember the first generation. These are from Dyson, the vacuum company, the entree. over ear earphones first of all, they sound crystal clear, very impressive, and the noise cancellation has got 8 active noise canceling microphones on this really impressive sound, 55 hours, by the way, on a charge, and they've got customizable caps and cushions for around the ear. Now if you want something that's a little bit more discreet, that's uh you can put as a stocking stuffer or just take with you, uh, Samsung's Galaxy Bud 3 Pro latest iteration from them. And these look a lot more like the Apple AirPods, AirPods now, so they've changed the design language a little bit now, but also pretty good active noise cancellation on these. Absolutely great sound quality. Alright, so these also have uh touch controls with Galaxy AI on your Galaxy AI enabled smartphone. You can actually use these to hear live translation from another language with interpreter mode. All right, we've got many more last minute tech ideas for you coming up in our next segment, so stick around. Right, somebody

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Time is running out to do your holiday shopping, and if you're looking for the perfect gift for the tech obsess, well, we have some ideas for you. Here's our Eric Lance Groner with Tech Check. Back here with John Velasco, senior editor over at Tom's Guide. Uh, John, this time we're looking at some gifts to keep you charged up, uh, while you're out and on the go, starting with the EcoFlow River 3. It's a portable power station. You've been using EcoFlow products and see them for a while now. Yeah, they provide mobile solutions for power on the go, for example, you have the outlets. It's powering the TV here right now, um, USB ports for all your phones, for all the gadgets. It's great as a backup. Yeah, this one's got 6 ports to keep you powered up whether you're off the grid or when the power goes out, and this is great. It also has a UPS on interruptible power supply, so when the power does go out, the River 3 just kicks on in under 20 milliseconds is what they say. And anything you do have plugged in doesn't lose juice. All right, so a couple of our other power options we have for you. This is the Ecoflow Power hat, uh, going for a long hike or you're out camping, styling, uh, maybe planning a day at the beach. The brim actually has solar panels built right in to make sure that you never run out of power. You can charge up two devices at once with that. It's one of those. What will they think of next? I know. I've, you know, ironic you say I use it for the beach. I live by the beach, use it and actually charge your phone. It's pretty cool. Uh, all right, finally, these are from Infinico, uh, the T3 Pro, it's a 3 in one charging stand, magnetic fast charging for your phone, also a slot on the back for your watch and your buds. Uh, the M3, and this one's cute, a little mini wireless battery pack, MagSafe compatible. Just right to your phone tops you off. Finally, uh, the P3 Pandora, that's a portable power bank that's got USB-C and USB 2.0 ports, wireless charging doubles as a wireless charger. We, we, we carry so many devices with us and there's still nothing worse than running out of charge when you're out. We hope you have learned something from our holiday tech segment. Happy holidays, happy shopping everyone. We'll see you again next time.

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News 12’s Eric Landskroner spoke with John Velasco, senior editor at Tom’s Guide, to discuss the latest in tech trends.

TECH CHECK: The hottest tech trends this holiday season

News 12’s Eric Landskroner spoke with John Velasco, senior editor at Tom’s Guide, to discuss the latest in tech trends.

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