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The Amazon Santa App
Amazon Santa App for Kindle Fire and iPad is a fun, free and easy way for kids and parents to create personalized, holiday Wish Lists to share with Santa, friends and family. Simply download Amazon Santa and browse Amazon’s wide selection of family-friendly books, toys, games, movies, music, and video games. Parents can easily review and edit their child’s custom Wish List and share it via email. Friends and family will love knowing they’ve selected a gift a child really wants, while parents love worrying less about duplicate gifts.
The Amazon Santa App is a FREE app for Kindle Fire and iPad
The Amazon Santa app is available for free from the Amazon Appstore at www.amazon.com/appstore or from iTunes.
Visit www.amazon.com/santa_appfor more information
LG Esteem from MetroPCS
The LG Esteem is a sleek touchscreen smartphone from MetroPCS. The chic LG Esteem delivers an incredible entertainment experience for customers including music and multimedia applications like Rhapsody Unlimited Music, giving you access to more than 12 million songs at your fingertips. Powered by Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the LG Esteem features a sleek, modern design for style-conscious consumers looking for the latest smartphone technology. The LG Esteem’s front and rear-facing camera and video recording with face-to-face video calling capabilities will help you stay connected with your loved ones.
The LG Esteem 4G LTE costs $249 after a $100 mail-in rebate.
The LG Esteem is available at your local MetroPCS or online at www.metropcs.com
Visit http://www.metropcs.com/for more information
SanDisk Memory Vault
The SanDisk Memory Vault is a photo album for the digital age that allows consumers to preserve images in one reliable location. The device connects to a computer’s USB port for easy drag-and-drop functionality and features a sleek, ruggedized, metallic design that looks great on any desktop and fits into any drawer. The Memory Vault allows parents to preserve photos of their daughter’s first steps alongside videos from her wedding and then pass those images down for generations to come.
Priced at 8GB: $49.99; 16GB: $89.99
SanDisk Memory Vault is available at www.sandisk.com and B&H Photo
Visit www.sandisk.com for more information
The Powermat Backup Battery and The Powermat 2-position Mat
The backup battery lets you take power with you… so you’re never caught in a bind when you’re battery is failing and you can’t find an available outlet. It comes equipped with Apple and Micro USB connectors for charging hundreds of devices and it conveniently recharges on any Powermat. Providing on-the-go convenience and support, the Powermat Backup Battery is the perfect gift for anyone with a smartphone Blackberry or iPod who has ever suffered from battery drain…in other words all of us.
Powermat Backup Battery – $49.99
Powermat Two-position mat – $59.99
Available at major retailers including Best Buy, Walmart and online at www.powermat.com
Visit www.powermat.com for more information
SodaStream Fizz home soda maker
SodaStream Fizz home soda maker turns water into fresh, fizzy sparkling water and soda in seconds! Featuring innovative Fizz Chip® technology, the SodaStream Fizz indicates the CO2 level in the carbonator and monitors the fizziness of each drink. No more lugging or storing bottles and cans from the store, and no more empties to recycle or throw away. Over 50 great-tasting flavors to choose from, including regular, diet, flavor essences, cocktail mixers and even an energy drink. Plus new Sparkling Naturals – all natural soda flavors sweetened exclusively with cane sugar.
Fizz starter kit is $149 and includes the Fizz home soda maker, reusable carbonator to make up to 60 liters, a BPA-free reusable carbonating bottle and a taste sampler pack featuring 12 popular regular and diet flavors.
Fizz is available at Bed Bath & Beyond, Macy’s and other fine retailers. Find a local retailer at sodastream.com
Visit www.sodastream.com for more information
Samsung Plasma D8000 Series Smart TV
For the TV buff in your life this holiday season, check out the Samsung Plasma D8000 Series Smart TV, which delivers outstanding picture quality with deeper blacks in both 2D & 3D in Full HD. The Plasma D8000 also features Samsung’s Smart Hub and a full Web Browser, which lets you easily search for movies, shows and videos via online streaming services, plus access to a wide variety of apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Facebook and more from Samsung Apps. With Samsung’s exclusive Plasma+1 design, the Plasma D8000 has a reduced bezel that adds 1” of viewable screen size, for more picture without increasing the real estate in your living room.
Starting under $2300
For more information, visit http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/PN51D8000FFXZA
