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The Verge's 2026 gift guide for dads
Thirty gift ideas across all budgets for fathers who love gadgets, gaming, cooking, or the outdoors.
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Thirty gift ideas across all budgets for fathers who love gadgets, gaming, cooking, or the outdoors. The Verge curated thirty gift ideas for modern fathers across five price ranges, from ten dollars to three thousand dollars, covering tech, gaming, home, and lifestyle categories. Originally reported by The Verge.
Skip the tie this year
Gone are the days when you could just buy your father a random tie or some leather-clad alcohol vessel or a shaving kit. Dads want something memorable and special.
“Dads want, nay, deserve, something memorable.”
Thirty gifts across five price ranges
The Verge curated this year's gift list with the modern father in mind, whether he's a gamer, creator, chef, or gadget lover. Gifts range from under twenty dollars to over two thousand.
Antigravity A1 drone
The Antigravity A1 is priced at seven hundred ninety-nine dollars. It comes with specialized goggles and records always-on, three hundred sixty-degree eight K video for an exhilarating flight experience.
Dyson PencilVac FluffyCones
Dyson's PencilVac FluffyCones costs four hundred forty dollars. This lightweight stick vacuum doesn't do carpets but its rolling bars pack incredible cleaning power for hard floors and stairs.
Belkin Wireless HDMI Display Adapter
Belkin's ConnectAir costs one hundred fifty dollars. Plug the transmitter into any device with a USB-C video-out port and the receiver into the TV's HDMI port for wireless connection.
Sonos Ace Ultra headphones
The Sonos Ace Ultra costs four hundred forty-nine dollars. It delivers better noise canceling, improved sound, and Wi-Fi support to bounce audio across your Sonos ecosystem including from a TV.
Werewolf VFLEX Starter Kit Lite
Werewolf's affordable dongle kit costs forty-eight dollars. Program it from a mobile app to power nearly any DC device from a USB-C charger, from a PC monitor to an original Game Boy.
Peak Design City Backpack
Peak Design's fifteen litre City Backpack costs one hundred eighty dollars. A simple hook makes roaming the city more convenient, and the clever addition is a game-changer for anyone who doesn't want to leave their…
WiiM Bar soundbar
WiiM's first soundbar costs four hundred seventy-nine dollars. It builds on seamless Sonos-esque connectivity with a sleek design, detailed sound, and up-firing speakers for Dolby Atmos spatial audio.
Alienware AW3426DW QD-OLED monitor
Alienware's thirty-four inch Penta Tandem QD-OLED monitor costs seven hundred fifty dollars. It delivers top-end picture quality with vibrant colors and perfect blacks, plus a swift two hundred eighty hertz refresh rate.
Kindle Paperwhite 2026
Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite costs two hundred dollars. It's waterproof, auto-dimming, loads books faster than the prior model, and offers a slick aluminum upgrade for a better reading experience.
Sharge Disk Pro 2 SSD dock
The cassette-shaped Sharge Disk Pro 2 costs seventy-four dollars. It works as a hub with HDMI at four K, SD and microSD card slots, USB-A and USB-C ports, plus up to eight terabytes of storage.
Apple TV 4K 2026
Apple TV 4K costs two hundred ninety-nine dollars. It stands out with built-in mics for Siri AI, lots of power, HomePod surround sound support, and a simple, ad-free interface.
Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo Switch 2 costs four hundred ninety-nine dollars. It features a larger seven point nine inch display, a faster chip, and new social features, plus access to Nintendo's weird, beautiful, family-friendly games.
Oura Ring 5
Oura Ring 5 costs three hundred ninety-nine dollars. It features a slimmer, thinner, more wearable design with extensive health and fitness tracking for everything from sleep to heart health, backed by long battery life.
Camp Snap CS-Pro camera
Camp Snap's CS-Pro costs ninety-nine dollars. The retro-inspired digital camera serves up sixteen megapixel stills with four filters accessible from its tactile dial, plus USB-C charging and a high-quality Xenon flash.
BougeRV T1 camping light
BougeRV's T1 portable telescopic camping light costs eighty dollars. Its powerful, foldable spread of LEDs provides a blast of light anywhere plug-ins can't reach, with up to sixty hours of light on low power.
SteelSeries Rival Pro mouse
SteelSeries Rival Pro costs one hundred eighty dollars. It offers swappable batteries, an ultra-wideband base station for seamless connection, lightweight design, eight thousand hertz polling rate, and up to sixteen hours per charge.
Kaleidescape Strato E movie player
Kaleidescape Strato E costs two thousand nine hundred ninety-five dollars. It lets library builders locally store and play their favorite films and TV shows in lossless four K resolution with Dolby Atmos.
The essence
The Verge curated thirty gift ideas for modern fathers across five price ranges, from ten dollars to three thousand dollars, covering tech, gaming, home, and lifestyle categories.
