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Last-minute gift ideas: 10 great tech gifts under $100

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We don’t want to scare you, but you have one week left to finish your Christmas gift shopping. Ok, maybe we do want to scare you. It’s now officially crunch time and anyone left on your list might not get a present from you this year unless you hurry up and get something now.

The bad news is you’ve missed out on tons of sales for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The good news, however, is that BGR is here to help you find some great last-minute gifts that are inexpensive and perfect for the techie in your life.

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O. M. G. Scary video shows what it’s like to hit a deer while going 30 mph on a bicycle

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There’s nothing more refreshing than zipping downhill on a bicycle at a high speed… until a woodland creature suddenly leaps out in front of you and you crash into it. YouTube user Silas Patlove was riding his bike down a fairly steep slope around Sausalito, California when all of a sudden a deer jumped onto the road. He crashed into the animal and flew off his bike… and his bike’s Fly6 camera caught it all.

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Over 30 games on sale for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita this week – up to 70% off!

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The third week of the Holiday Sale on the PlayStation Store has arrived, and it’s the best selection of cheap games yet. This week, some of the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita games are being discounted up to 60% for regular users and up to 70% for PlayStation Plus subscribers. The discounts aren’t quite as steep as last week’s, but the amount of recent AAA releases should make up for that.

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The most comprehensive guide you’ll find to using Apple Pay

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Apple Pay is the future. You can fight it all you want, but as we have discussed several times here on BGR in the past, services like Apple Pay will be the primary means of transactions in the United States at some point in the future. It will be a while until they truly proliferate, as we said when covering a cool new smart card called Coin, but these services will proliferate.

As fantastic a job as Apple did making its mobile payment solution as easy as possible to use, there are still some things that won’t be obvious to every iPhone owner out there. But don’t worry — we’ve found the most comprehensive guide on the planet to using Apple Pay, and it has everything you need to know.

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BIGGEST LIST OF THE WEEK — 10 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free downloads right now!

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This has been a great week for paid iPhone and iPad apps that have gone on sale for free, and with Christmas right around the corner, we all need to save as much money as possible right now. Tuesday’s list included eight nifty iOS apps on sale — and you can still grab some for free if you hurry — and now we’re back with another 10 paid apps that are all free for a limited time.

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81 stunning iPhone 6 (and 6 Plus/Android) wallpapers you can download for free — you won’t believe how they were made!

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Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus might not pack as many pixels on their displays as the quad HD screens on smartphones like the LG G3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4, but there’s absolutely no question that in terms of display quality, the iPhones are two of the best in the business. The screens are bright and clear, and colors are far more bold and vivid than they are on most other smartphone displays.

So an important issue arises: How do you find beautiful high-resolution wallpapers that make the most of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’ stunning screens?

That’s where we come in.

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Everything old is new again: BlackBerry unveils the Classic

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BlackBerry is through trying to mimic Apple and Google, which is why it’s decided to kick things old school this year and release devices that emphasize its iconic physical QWERTY keyboards. And now the company has just unveiled its biggest throwback device yet that not only features a physical keyboard but also brings back function keys, trackpads and other old-timey BlackBerry staples. Yes, we’re talking about the BlackBerry Classic.

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This is the world’s most stunning new Android phone – and it’ll only cost you $5,000

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While there’s no question that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are beautiful smartphones, some might argue that Apple’s 2012 iPhone 5 and last year’s iPhone 5s feature an overall look that is more sleek and sophisticated. Now, imagine that sophisticated design was given harder lines, darker tones and a 5-inch full HD display, and it was built out of titanium and 18k gold instead of aluminum.

Meet the new limited-edition Regal Black Edition luxury Android phone from Gresso.

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