Holiday Gift Guide 2014: For the Tech Geek

Pillow smartphone rest by Snarkitecture, $85 at shop.snarkitecture.com Riffing on Snarkitecture's large-scale installation work, their desktop piece appears plush but is cast in durable white gypsum cement. It serves as a resting place for a smartphone; a small niche on the bottom holds a charging cable.

Home security system by Canary, $249 at canary.is This all-in-one security system "learns" the rhythms of your home and monitors activity and noise levels, air quality and temperature, notifying you by text (with an accompanying high-definition video) when anything seems out of sorts.

PWS Wireless Speaker by Grain Audio, $249 at store.dwell.com Made with solid walnut with neutral graphite speaker grills and buttons, the PWS is small enough to fit in a backpack but produces enough clean, potent sound to fill a room.

Smart Home Kit by LittleBits, $249 at littlebits.cc This kit turns a home into a smart home without the wholesale replacement of every fixture. The kit comes with 14 modules that can be combined to turn virtually any object into an Internet-connected device.

Kvissle cable-management box by Ikea, $10 at ikea.com This minimalist, unassuming steel box with a cork lid can keep all of your tangled cords from cluttering your workspace.

PowerCube Extended USB by Allocacoc, $25-30 at powercube-usa.com This stylish alternative to the dowdy (and space-consuming) power strip is equipped with four outlets, two USB ports and a five- or 10-foot cord.

11+ felt iPad case by cloudandco for Leibal, $46-56 at store.dwell.com This felt case opens to reveal a sleeve for laptops or tablets, as well as storage compartments for headphones, cables, and other small pieces. It's available in two sizes—a smaller version that holds an iPad Mini, and a larger one that holds an iPad, iPad Air, 11-inch Macbook Air, or a Galaxy Tablet.

Kitchen thermometer by iDevices, $80 at idevicesinc.com This dual-probe smart thermometer takes oven-hovering out of the equation at food-prep time. Sync the device to your smart phone and monitor food temparature within a range of 150 feet.

Sprout by HP, $1,900 at store.hp.com Take desktop computing to the next level with Sprout from HP. A mat captures anything that is drawn or written on it, while physical objects that are placed on it are scanned or photographed, creating digital content that can be manipulated and incorporated into a creative project.

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