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Have Yourself a Very Techy Christmas
Becky Worley is ABC News' technology contributor.  (ABC News)

Dec. 3, 2005 — Tech-mas, Tech-nukkah, Tech-wanzaa: OK, it's overkill, but you get the idea. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 76 percent of Americans plan to give a tech gift this year. So if you are shopping for digital cameras, music players, video game consoles or computers this year, here are some specific ideas and some wacky tech gifts that might breathe more fun into the unwrapping process.

The Golf Gadget: RadarGolf $350 www.radargolf.com

Any golfer will tell you that losing a golf ball during play is maddening, time consuming and score inflating. Lose your ball, take a penalty stroke, arghhh!
RadarGolf is here to help. Inside special balls, tiny radio transmitters, the size of rice grains, emit a signal. The handheld RadarGolf device carried by the golfer picks up that signal and directs the golfer to the ball. Can RadarGolf guarantee you'll never lose a ball again? Sadly, no. No radio signal can reach the receiver when balls go in the water. And anecdotal use of the product shows that sometimes the ball is in such deep rough that you'd still need more than a few minutes to find the ball, even with the RadarGolf device. But as golf gadgets go, RadarGolf is a good gift for the golfer who has everything.