Holiday gadget gift guide

Spending on consumer electronics will account for one-third of all holiday gift-shopping this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Assn. — but finding the right gift for the gadget-hound on your list won’t be easy, or cheap. While overall electronics prices are falling in some categories, like TVs, items on the cutting edge tend to carry a premium pricetag. They’re also often hard to get since they may not be carried by big-box stores and thus not be on the radar of most shoppers.

To help out, Variety has put together its annual list of items that are bound to please even the most discriminating techie.

Read more at Daily Variety

Nikon ups the stakes in the DSLR battle

We’ve written previously here at Variety about the growing importance of digital SLR cameras to Hollywood. Indie filmmakers use them to shoot on a budget and bigger budget content producers use ’em to help cut costs (like “Saturday Night Live,” which shoots its opening credits with a DSLR). 

Now Nikon is adding some new features to better compete with Canon, which has had the lead among film makers for a while.

Read more at Variety’s Technotainment blog