Hot Holiday Tech Gifts

Marble notebooks of yore have more or less made way for USB key drives for kids' school projects. Think ahead now and buy one large enough to accommodate a scholar's trove of essays and projects, resulting in a single drive with a complete digital record of their school experience. We like the eGo portable drive—with capacities of 320 gigabytes (GB) to 1 terabyte (TB), it holds more data than most typical computers, rendering file space a nonissue.

• Available at go.iomega.com, from $80