Holiday gift ideas: High-Tech Texan

Fox - 7 Austin
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We just showed you my Mariah Carey screaming.
That means the holiday countdown is certainly on.
If you haven't started, if you're ambitious
and started that gift shopping, that's impressive.
Now might be the time to do that.
From fitness gadgets, gaming systems.
We've got Michael Garfield,
the high-tech Texan himself here with some tech gift ideas
for everyone on your list, no matter what they're into, Michael.
Can I try to imitate little Mariah Carey?
Can I get that high?
Often duplicated, never imitated.
Never imitated.
So I got something not as good as Mariah Carey,
but it is for the next month and a half.
We're talking about all these different gifts.
And so for the next few weeks,
I'm going to give everybody some ideas out there.
Some of these gifts might be as good as Mark's.
Right, yes.
Pretty exciting things.
Very exciting things.
And so what we're going to do now is I kind of picked a few categories.
So we have a car enthusiast,
maybe a sports enthusiast and a health enthusiast.
We're going to start right in front of you.
Something that everybody should have in their car, one or two things.
This is kind of an all-in-one device from a company called Vantrue.
This is a three-in-one device,
but what this does, this will jump start.
Your car, should it be dead.
This will also inflate all of your tires, not just your tires
on your car, but also your air mattresses and everything, too.
And it also has lights and flashers.
It comes in this nice little case.
This is something you should always keep in your trunk,
especially if you're a kid or wherever you go.
Well,
it's a peace of mind when you're sending those kids off to school.
Everybody should have one.
Exactly, yeah, yeah.
This works all over the house, anything you need to inflate, too.
The other thing is, you've seen these dash cams, actually.
More and more people are using these dash cams.
They're putting them on the front window, and actually we saw
a lot of crazy stuff yesterday with the airplane and everything.
These things, you'll find them in all the Ubers, whatever.
There's no reason to not have one in your car.
This is a really new one.
This is smaller.
I've shown a few.
They're very, very big.
This is also from a company called Vantrue.
This is the Element.
Look how small it is.
It's got a little tiny LCD on the back so you can see what's going on.
This faces, it sticks in the front window.
Captures everything, rolling at the same time.
It's got a lot of storage also here.
I'm excited about this one.
You're a golfer, aren't you?
I am, and I don't have a range finder right now.
You need to know your yardages.
In theory, I might hit a shot correctly one day.
Dave, Merry Christmas.
You may walk home and say, this is from Garmin.
This is their latest.
This is a range finder watch.
And so what it does is you download
whatever golf course you're playing on.
And as long as you're wearing it, it is going
to give you a true reading to the center of the green.
It also tells time and your calories and everything.
Love that.
Okay, I'm a health enthusiast.
I'm going to put these on.
I'm going to slowly pick these up and put these on.
These are great.
I've showed these before,
but if you're a health enthusiast, this is from a company
called Camelot.
So you turn these on.
These are Bluetooth, so you can listen
to what's happening to anything when you carry
your phone.
But also, these have Bluetooth.
I don't know if you can see it, the lenses change color,
so if you go from outside at night to dark, just by touching it,
it's got these lenses that will actually change also,
so you can hear these things, which is also neat.
Now, we also have something for your health.
When you're running, you want to have music also.
Look at the form factor of these things.
These look like earrings.
These get better and better.
These look like little tiny earrings,
and you put them on your ear, and there you go.
This is from a company called Buoy,
but different ones from different companies.
You charge them, and you're set to go.
It's pretty cool.
Yeah.
And always, how about these?
What am I wearing right here?
You have the fitness ring.
It's a fitness ring, and there are many, many companies.
This is from a company called Circular.
I like this because this is the first smart ring
with FDA clearance for ECG and the atrial
fibrillation.
You put it in here.
You charge it.
And so you can get real time of what's going on.
You're charging these things.
So health, fitness, cars, happy holidays, whatever you're doing.
I don't think Mariah Carey could have gotten through all
that that fast.
You nailed that.
