{"id":204291,"date":"2025-11-28T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204291\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:57:09","slug":"adrian-weckler-the-dos-and-donts-of-tech-themed-gifts-presents-which-will-either-impress-or-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204291\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: The Dos and Don\u2019ts of tech-themed gifts \u2013 presents which will either impress or distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTo avoid a surprise blowing up in your face, here are some key tips \u2013 and remember that nobody ever wants a vacuum\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clockwise from left: a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, a Fitbit Versa smartwatch, a Sage coffee machine, an Amazon Echo Studio and a Kindle Scribe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3f8fc49c-b9cb-4424-9363-358de3933a84.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Clockwise from left: a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, a Fitbit Versa smartwatch, a Sage coffee machine, an Amazon Echo Studio and a Kindle Scribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Buying a tech-themed Christmas present for a loved one is normal if the recipient asks for it. But as a \u2018pleasant surprise\u2019, it\u2019s fraught with risk. Here are five Dos and Don\u2019ts about buying tech for friends and family this Christmas, if you\u2019re coming up with the idea yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Do: Dyson hair gadget (from \u20ac349) Don\u2019t: Dyson vacuum (from \u20ac280)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To avoid a surprise blowing up in your face, here are some key tips \u2013 and remember that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[15807,16838,18,19,17,2519,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-204291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-review-magazine","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115625790716586191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}