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Father’s Day Technology Gift Guide

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n the Digital Age, there are two types
of dads. The first is the dad who would
love to get any technology-related gift
on Father’s Day. The second dad doesn’t real-
ize he would love to get anything techie, but
when he does, he’s excited and eager to open
the box to set it up.
As Father’s Day 2016
approaches, the amount of
eye-popping tech gadgets
is overwhelming. This
year will be Dad’s best
Father’s Day ever because
of the cool tech products
on the market.
I put together a list of
Rabbi Jason
some of the most impres-
Miller
sive tech gifts for this year.
All of these products are
available on Amazon.com and at local stores.
Many of these products are discounted dur-
ing the Father’s Day shopping season, so
check the web for the best prices.
Raumfeld
Stereo M and
Raumfeld
SoundBar: The
German company
Teufel Raumfeld
only makes serious
audio equipment
for the true audiophile. These elegantly
designed speakers deliver the only wireless
multi-room streaming solution to fill any
home with true wireless high-fidelity sound.
Raumfeld’s free iOS and Android apps allow
Dad’s smartphone or tablet to control the
speakers, toggle between his personal music
collection, USB, internet radio or one of the
popular streaming services that Raumfeld
supports, such as Spotify. www.raumfeld.
com
Netgear
Nighthawk
X4S Gaming
Router: There’s
a reason this
was ranked
No. 1 for Best Router Performance this year.
It boasts the fastest gaming performance
of any comparable router with its 160MHz,
MU-MIMO and Quad Stream technology,
which delivers WiFi to multiple devices
simultaneously for faster speeds. Dad will
be able to easily manage the network, have
access to a secure personal cloud, access the
home network remotely and share photos
stored on the storage from anywhere. www.
netgear.com
Eleven James Watch
Rental: Known as the
Netflix of watches, Eleven
James is an annual mem-
bership club that gives
Dad or Grandpa unprec-

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edented access to hundreds of the world’s
most exquisite watch brands and styles,
allowing him to change watches at will.
www.elevenjames.com
BeoPlay A1:
Give Dad this
BeoPlay portable
Bluetooth speak-
er for Father’s
Day and he’ll
thank you every time he provides the music
at the tailgate, family BBQ, beach party or
by the pool. Beoplay A1 is small, but it has
ambient True 360 sound. www.beoplay.com
Epson
PowerLite
Home Cinema
2045 Projector:
Epson’s Home
Cinema 2045
wireless projector is designed to be a home
entertainment hub. This powerful projector
delivers full HD 1080p content from most
devices and will let Dad wirelessly stream
content via Miracast and Intel WiDi or use
his Blu-ray player, gaming console, stream-
ing device, tablet or smartphone and project
up to 300 inches. www.epson.com
Aurvana
Noise Cancelling
Headphones:
There are so
many high-end
noise cancelling
headphones on
the market, but
Aurvana’s ver-
sion is under $150. They are so lightweight
that Dad will forget he’s even wearing head-
phones. us.creative.com
Logitech Harmony Elite:
Let’s face it ... dads love remote
controls. Logitech’s Harmony
Elite is an all-in-one remote con-
trol on steroids! It will control
up to 15 home entertainment
and connected home
devices. www.logitech.
com
ALLie Home 360
Degree Interactive
Camera: The ALLie
camera will give any
father or grandfa-
ther peace of mind
because he’ll never
miss those impor-
tant moments in
life. ALLie isn’t a security camera. Rather, it’s
meant to capture events in fully immersive
360° x 360° and then share them on YouTube
or Facebook. He can also view what’s hap-
pening live in 4K hi-res. The cloud record-
ings will help your favorite guy go back in
time and see what happened while he was

away in the most immersive way possible.
www.allie.camera
Beastgrip
Pro Wide
Angle Lens
and Fisheye
Lens:
Beastgrip’s
products help
the smartphone photographer by providing
a better lens for higher resolution photog-
raphy. The Beastgrip Pro is compatible with
just about any smartphone and with the
included Beastgrip DOF adapter, it’s easy for
Dad to mount SLR lenses to achieve a shal-
low depth-of-field and create unique photo-
graphs and videos with his camera phone.
The included Beastgrip Wide angle lens lets
him capture approximately 2x more of the
picture in the frame than just using a camera
phone lens. The Beastgrip Fisheye lens has
a 180° field-of-view allowing him to achieve
unique visual effects for fun. www.beastgrip.
com
Parrot
Jumping
Race Jett
MiniDrone:
Drones have
really come
down in price over the past year, but if get-
ting Dad a Parrot Bebop 2 is still too pricey,
consider the less costly Jumping Race Jett
MiniDrone from Parrot. This lightweight
drone comes with an embedded mini camera
that sends photos and videos directly to his
smartphone or tablet, plus a microphone and
speaker that capture and broadcast audio.
Dad will love the fact that he can record vid-
eos from the family picnic directly onto the
internal memory. www.parrot.com
Logi
ZeroTouch
Dashboard
and
ZeroTouch
Air Vent:
Help Dad put safety first when he’s driving.
These two gadgets from Logitech together
give any driver a true hands-free, in-car
experience that can provide the best fea-
tures of a connected car. The mobile app is
automatically triggered when Dad docks his
phone to the magnetic air vent or dashboard
mount, allowing him to use voice controls to
text back and forth, place phone calls, and
share his location with friends and family in
real-time with Glympse. He can also stream
his music using
Spotify and navi-
gate with Google
Maps or Waze.
www.logitech.com
Lima: What
started as a

Kickstarter project is now one of the best
Father’s Day gifts for under $100. Lima lets
Dad build a personal cloud in just seconds.
He’ll install the Lima device by plugging it in
to his router and into an external hard drive.
In the blink of an eye, it will enable him to
access all of his files from any device. Lima
uses military-grade privacy; it syncs quickly
and there are never any fees. www.meetlima.
com
HUDWAY Glass HeadsUp Display: In
an effort to bring more safety to drivers by
freeing them from these navigational distrac-
tions, HUDWAY
has created a
new HeadsUp
Display. It proj-
ects navigation
information
off of a smartphone screen directly in the
driver’s line of sight, so that drivers can focus
on the road ahead without being distracted.
A Kickstarter project, HUDWAY Glass will
be released on the market this August. A pre-
order would make a wonderful Father’s Day
gift at the discounted price of $49 instead
of the eventual retail price of $79.95. www.
hudwayglass.com

Rowkin Mini: The Rowkin Mini is the
world’s smallest wireless earbud on the mar-
ket, making it easy to fit into the ear. They
look and feel like two small dots in your ears
and are virtually invisible. Using Bluetooth
4.1 technology, the Rowkin Mini connects to
any smart device, and the tiny earbud has a
built-in mic to easily make phone calls. They
come with a portable charging case. www.
rowkin.com
Vitrima VR Lens: If Dad got a GoPro for
last Father’s Day, you’ll want to up his game
this year.
Vitrima’s
VR Lens
transforms
his GoPro. It’s
a 3D action
camera lens
that requires
no additional processing to capture 3D video.
After shooting video with Vitrima, it can be
viewed in immersive 3D using a virtual real-
ity headset or viewer like Google Cardboard.
The price is $129 for the waterproof version
and $99 for the lightweight one. www.
vitrima.com

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Rabbi Jason Miller is a local entrepreneur, educa-
tor and blogger. He is president of Access Computer
Technology. Follow him on Twitter at @RabbiJason.