The non-gimmicky hardware is usually outside of the holiday-gift price point. Like say YC's http://www.doublerobotics.com/ http://www.doublerobotics.com/ , I ac

The non-gimmicky hardware is usually outside of the holiday-gift price point. Like say YC's http://www.doublerobotics.com/ http://www.doublerobotics.com/ , I actually eyed it for a holiday gift, but 3000$ is a bit too much. I spent a large chunk of today looking for gifts and trust me almost everything under 1xxx$ is like what you've described. And quite honestly, I'd guess many of the companies on that list might actually my struggling to be at the "Silicon Valley cool-kids table" because of what they're doing :P