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30 High Luxe Gifts for Tech Lovers

By Kate Pruitt (from Design Sponge) on November 29, 2011

My first two gift guides featured sixty products under $100 that would make great gifts for the photography-buffs, fashion-mavens, and general tech-lovers on your wishlist. Budget conscious consumers might want to avoid this last gift list, which is a roundup of the most luxurious, high end gifts. It's worth glancing over though, because while these items are indeed expensive, they are all high quality, cutting-edge, well-designed, and built to last. The leather bags and cases are something you'll never have to replace, and the iPad 2 is what it is-- which is totally awesome. So while the prices here are steep, you do get what you pay for, and if you're looking for a top-notch high-luxe gift--or perhaps something to splurge on for yourself when those tax refunds arrive next year--look no further.

What's the most luxurious tech item on your holiday wishlist this year?

1. Bang & Olufsen EarSet2 bluetooth mobile device, $199
2. Vivitek Qumi 3D Ready DLP pocket projector, $499
3. Apple iPad2 16G, $499
4. Kindle Fire, $199
5. Bose QuietComfort noise-cancelling headphones, $300
6. Sonos Play:3 Wireless Hifi Player and Bridge, $299 and $49, respecitvely
7. Jawbone Jambox in grey hex, $199
8. Canon Rebel T3, $489
9. Lytro light field camera, 16G $499, 8G $399
10. iHome iW1 AirPlay Rechargeable Wireless Speaker, $300

1. Hard Graft All-in-One Folio, $135
2. Kate Spade Portola Valley Janine, $495
3. Juicy Couture Classically Couture iPad case, $128
4. Rebecca Minkoff Stitched Virginia laptop case, $95
5. MUJI hard carry travel suitcase, $198
6. Frye Logan Briefcase, $478
7. Hard Graft 2Unfold laptop bag, $524
8. Kenton Sorenson leather iPad portfolio, $200
9. Michael Kors iPad envelope, $128
10. Griffin No. 50 leather phone case & wallet, $80

1. Unit 1 wall modular organizer, $275
2. Tomiyama Koichi walnut coffee lamp, $275
3. Lavoisier Pendant Lamp, $168
4. Isometric chair, $380
5. Hector table light, $295
6. "Speak-er" set, $100
7. Vintage rotary phone, $198
8. Crosley Ranchero Radio, $169
9. Eames Hang-It-All, $225
10. Wall Bookshelf, $229

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Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours. In addition, Design*Sponge features a unique section dedicated to covering student design, national and international design shows. The site is updated constantly throughout the day (with an average of 6-10 posts a day), and attracts a core group of devoted readers. Design*Sponge currently has over 60,000 daily readers. As a Contributing Editor at Design Sponge, artist Kate Pruitt shares DIY projects each Wednesday. Kate lives in Oakland, California and has a background in art/art history and recently left her job creating window displays to pursue her own work full time. Growing up in New Hampshire, Kate spent a lot of time building machines out of paper and scotch tape, and thus discovered her first DIY impulses.

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