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5 high-tech gifts that will woo her more than flowers

If you’re tired of buying your lady love chocolate and flowers every February 14, have no fear — there are plenty of great gifts out there if you know where to look. Our favorite Valentine’s Day gifts are undoubtedly high-tech, and we’ve put together a list of some of the coolest tech gifts you can buy for your leading lady this V-Day.

VanDerWaals portable device charging handbags ($300+)

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This purse changes color with an app to match your outfit or color you photograph, and it’ll even charge your phone. What more could a girl ask for? VanDerWaals’ bags come in three sizes: a tote, a clutch, and a small crossbody bag. All three are made from genuine leather and come in your choice of leopard or snakeskin print. There’s also a fun party mode, which makes the bag sporadically change colors on its own.

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Molami Plica on-ear headphone ($100)

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Molami’s lineup of highly fashionable headphones is quite lovely, and ranges from an intriguing headwrap with built-in headphones to a sleek pair of on-ears called the Plica. All of the Swedish company’s headphones are also made from premium materials. The Plica come in either black or white Napa leather, with sleek metallic accents designed to match your jewelry. The headphones even produce great sound via a pair of 40mm Dynamic Transducers, and, best of all, they won’t look absurd on a woman’s head.

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Bellabeat Leaf activity tracker ($150)

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Bellabeat’s Leaf is the most attractive and elegant fitness tracker we’ve ever used. Not only is it a gorgeous piece of smart jewelry that tracks your physical activity and sleep patterns, but it also guides you through breathing exercises and offers positive feedback. The Leaf comes in three stylish color options: silver and light wood, rose gold and dark wood, or gold and dark wood. You can wear it as a bracelet, clip, or necklace. Read our full review here.

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HButler Mighty Purse wristlet ($100)

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The joke goes that a woman’s life is in her purse, but many women are missing a key tool: an external battery to top off their smartphone. MightyPurse is one of many companies currently popping compact batteries into bags for quick charging on the go. You can snag a charging wristlet, wallet, clutch, or crossbody bag in premium leather and a wide variety of colors. Some of the bags will even charge up your phone twice over.

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LuMee iPhone 6 illuminated case ($55)

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Sometimes, romantic dinner lighting isn’t the best for selfies. Luckily, Lumee makes a handy iPhone case that has LED lights all around the front of the case, so that are your selfies are perfectly well-lit. The case comes in snazzy metallic colors to match your iPhone, too, or bright fun colors for those who want the case to really pop. The case may add some bulk to the svelte iPhone, but it’s Kardashian approved and fits the iPhone 5S, 6S, and 6SPlus.

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Malarie Gokey
As DT's Mobile Editor, Malarie runs the Mobile and Wearables sections, which cover smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and…
Digital Trends’ Top Tech of CES 2023 Awards
Best of CES 2023 Awards Our Top Tech from the Show Feature

Let there be no doubt: CES isn’t just alive in 2023; it’s thriving. Take one glance at the taxi gridlock outside the Las Vegas Convention Center and it’s evident that two quiet COVID years didn’t kill the world’s desire for an overcrowded in-person tech extravaganza -- they just built up a ravenous demand.

From VR to AI, eVTOLs and QD-OLED, the acronyms were flying and fresh technologies populated every corner of the show floor, and even the parking lot. So naturally, we poked, prodded, and tried on everything we could. They weren’t all revolutionary. But they didn’t have to be. We’ve watched enough waves of “game-changing” technologies that never quite arrive to know that sometimes it’s the little tweaks that really count.

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Digital Trends’ Tech For Change CES 2023 Awards
Digital Trends CES 2023 Tech For Change Award Winners Feature

CES is more than just a neon-drenched show-and-tell session for the world’s biggest tech manufacturers. More and more, it’s also a place where companies showcase innovations that could truly make the world a better place — and at CES 2023, this type of tech was on full display. We saw everything from accessibility-minded PS5 controllers to pedal-powered smart desks. But of all the amazing innovations on display this year, these three impressed us the most:

Samsung's Relumino Mode
Across the globe, roughly 300 million people suffer from moderate to severe vision loss, and generally speaking, most TVs don’t take that into account. So in an effort to make television more accessible and enjoyable for those millions of people suffering from impaired vision, Samsung is adding a new picture mode to many of its new TVs.
[CES 2023] Relumino Mode: Innovation for every need | Samsung
Relumino Mode, as it’s called, works by adding a bunch of different visual filters to the picture simultaneously. Outlines of people and objects on screen are highlighted, the contrast and brightness of the overall picture are cranked up, and extra sharpness is applied to everything. The resulting video would likely look strange to people with normal vision, but for folks with low vision, it should look clearer and closer to "normal" than it otherwise would.
Excitingly, since Relumino Mode is ultimately just a clever software trick, this technology could theoretically be pushed out via a software update and installed on millions of existing Samsung TVs -- not just new and recently purchased ones.

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How does Garmin measure stress, and is it really accurate?
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Garmin watches are known for their robust activity tracking, but that's not all these fitness watches can do. Over the years, the company has been adding wellness features to its lineup of watches. These new health-focused metrics allow people to analyze their fitness and identify outside factors affecting their performance. One such factor is stress, which is something Garmin watches actively measures.
But you may be wondering—exactly how does Garmin measure stress? In this article, we break down how Garmin measures stress and delve into the accuracy of this metric. Should you trust your stress score? Read on to find out.

Is Garmin's stress score accurate?

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