This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Xiomara Blanco/CNET TVs probably aren’t the first (or second or third) thing to come to mind when you hear Dell. Neither are fitness trackers or gaming consoles. But you can expect to find those and more with nice discounts come …

Sarah Tew/CNET You’ll have a lot of tablets and e-readers to choose from this holiday season, but Barnes & Noble are betting a little early financial incentive might steer you in its direction. As part of its Discovery Weekend, November 21 through 23, the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet will be $149.99 after a $50 instant rebate, while …

Ricoh Ricoh’s Theta is a slim stick of a camera that, with a single press of its shutter release, captures the entire scene around you — top to bottom — in one shot, creating fully spherical images using its proprietary ultra-small twin-lens optical system. The shots, which can be viewed and played with on a Windows or Mac computer, or …

Screenshot by Joshua Goldman/CNET And it only took two years. Back in August 2012, TiVo launched the Stream , a small box that let TiVo Premiere owners stream live and recorded programming to iOS devices via TiVo’s app. Then a year later it launched the Roamio Plus and Pro DVRs, which had streaming built in, but still only to iOS …

CNET Cameras aren’t just a smartphone feature now: they’re practically the killer app. As phone camera quality keeps accelerating, upgrading to a new phone can often be a question of, “Is the camera worth spending more for?” There are plenty of flagship phones with cameras worth comparing head-to-head, but for now, we wanted to dive into a simple comparison: How …

Joshua Goldman/CNET The TiVo Mini lets you borrow tuners from a TiVo Roamio or four-tuner Premiere DVR to stream content to additional rooms without the need to buy more DVRs. It’s a generally excellent device and it’s well priced at $99, but the rub is TiVo requires either a $5.99 monthly subscription fee or a $149 lifetime fee. That is …

James Martin/CNET As part of the announcement of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus , Apple revealed some of the new tech you’ll find helping you get those perfect shots. For starters, you’ll find optical image stabilization in the 6 Plus (it’s just electronic for the 6), faster autofocus, and slow-motion video up to 240 frames per second, which …

Joshua Goldman/CNET One of the few weaknesses of Sonos’ wireless speakers is the lack of Bluetooth, keeping you from streaming music with every app on your phone or tablet. A weakness Pure exploits with its Jongo line of wireless speakers. The speakers use both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which — with a quick software update — allows you to stream whatever …

Sarah Tew/CNET Bluetooth shutter releases for smartphone cameras are nothing new and can be found in different shapes and sizes and prices. They’re generally great for getting your arm out of your selfies among other things. For it to work, though, you have to have it with you and remember to use it. The Selfy case from iLuv solves that …

Few iPhone accessories — if any — extend the usefulness of the device’s camera like Motrr’s Galileo. But much of the credit for that belongs to the multiple apps developed for it, such as Appologic’s new Videography app. On its own, the $3.99 app gives you the capability to live stream 1080p video and audio to a browser on another …