About hightechgifts.com
Mara Voss
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
A decade following consumer electronics across every price tier, from mass-market gadgets to boutique audio and luxury wearables, grounds every recommendation on this site.
I got into this because of a string of expensive gift mistakes. Not cheap ones — expensive ones. I once spent close to $400 on a pair of wireless headphones for my brother, convinced by a single breathless review that they were the obvious choice. He returned them within a week. That failure sent me down a rabbit hole: why is gift-buying for tech so hard, even when you care and you've done some reading? The answer, I found, is that most tech coverage is written for the person buying for themselves — someone who knows their own preferences, ecosystem, and tolerance for complexity. Gift-buying is a completely different problem, and almost nobody was solving it seriously.