Top 3 Awesome Tech Gifts For Kids In 2016

The year 2016 is wonderfully filled with the releases of awesome high technology toys. The season of giving and gifting is the perfect opportunity to get to know some of bestselling and most sought after toys. Who knows? You might end up buying a toy that's not only fun to the kid in your life but also thrilling to adults.

Tech toys are great reminders of the power of imagination and the greatness of possibilities. That's why we are drawn to them. They harness creativity and a great soured of information about how to operate realities. From robots with personalities to hands on tech and basic coding for preschoolers, tech toys give us so much reasons to be excited for the future. Here are the top three picks of three websites combined and tallied as their hottest tech toys for kids.

Top on the tech toy list for kids is Cozmo, the $180 adorable robot fits in your palm and can actually recognize you and say your name. It's the closest you can have for a "R2D2"style robot. The developers designed around 500 expressions for it to pick up from people it can recognized. It then uses those expressions when playing a game or finishing a task in the cutest way possible.

Another toy robot with great personality is CHiP. This $200 mechanical doggie cuddles, plays fetch and follows you around your house. The most awesome feature of this toy is that it can actually charge itself when it's close to running out of juice. This little guy is very loud when he zips around the room, so apartment-dwellers with hardwood floors might want to invest in a rug.

Next on the list is Sphero Force Band. It's a tiny robot with a spherical body and head, much like Rei's robot in Star Wars. It spins and fights battles with other Spheros, The most interesting feature though is that you can actually make this little guy move back and forth with hand gestures much like using the force in Star Wars. Who doesn't want this kind of present? You can have this cool toy for $80.

Other tech toy worth mentioning are Osmo, Makey Makey, and Illumicraft. They're all below $100 and teaches circuitry, electricity, and coding.

Shopping for tech toys definitely is something to look forward to with the emergence of fun and exciting toys that technology has to offer.

Which toy gets you most excited? Leave your comments below.