Welcome to our first annual Holiday Buying Guide series chock full of fun gear and gizmos for the geeks and non-geeks in your life. We’ll be posting Holiday Guides for the next two months and flag a few interesting items with the “Holiday Guide 2006″ tag for your perusal. Enjoy!

PR folks take note: if you’d like to be featured in your guide, please send an email to tips @ crunchgear.com with the subject line “Holidays.” Ho ho ho.