The holiday season is coming up and The Drill Down would like you to be ready for it. So as we do every year around this time, we’ve prepared a list of what we consider the perfect gifts to give… and get this holiday. So before you stand around for hours this Black Friday, spend some time with us. Here’s the Drill Down’s Holiday Gift Guide 2015.

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Holiday Gift Picks

Dwayne:

1. Comixology – $50 Gift Card
2. Pebble Time Steel/ Pebble Time Round
3. Anker Astro E1 5200mAh Ultra Compact Portable Charger
4. Streaming Media Players – Amazon Fire TV, Roku 4, Apple TV, Chromecast, Chromecast Audio
5. Pyro Mini – Fireballs from your wrists!!

Tosin:

1. Indie Darlings: Tales from the Borderlands, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Rocket League
2. Amazon Echo
3. Philips Hue Lighting System
4. Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Professional Studio Monitor Headphones
5. Card Games: Exploding Kittens (by Matthew Inman) – You can get a box that meows, Codenames

Andrew:

1. Apple TV (4) $149, Apple Store
2. Automatic $99.95
3. Sphero BB-8 $149.99
4. Anova Culinary Wifi Precision Cooker $199
5. The Wire (Blu-Ray box set) $199.99 MSRP

Favorites

• Netflix – Netflix subscription (Tosin + Andy)
• Amazon Echo (Dwayne + Tosin)
• Amazon Prime $99/year
• Black Friday ads

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.