8 High-Tech Father's Day Gifts Dad Might Really Want

If your old man is still lugging around a gigantic tape-based camcorder, it's time to lighten his load. The $180 Creative Vado HD offers excellent low-light performance, simple exposure controls, and a surprisingly good wide-angle lens in a pocket-friendly package that's easy on the budget.

Sick of watching your father fumble around with his old, clunky BlackBerry? Drag him into the 21st century with the $200 HTC Droid Incredible. This Android 2.1-based Verizon smartphone boasts a speedy 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch 480-by-800 AMOLED display, an impressive 8-megapixel camera, and HTC's custom Sense interface.

On the train, at the game, or at the kids' school recital, the $200 Flo TV Personal Television delivers a constant stream of live sports, movies, news, and network channels. Now there's no need for Dad to play hooky from work to catch all of the World Cup or the World Series. And if your pop isn't in the market for another handheld device, you can sign him up for the smartphone version of the Flo TV service on AT&T or Verizon.

Now that just about everything on the market supports Wi-Fi, your old tech gear may be looking a little obsolete. But the $100 Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station can add Wi-Fi support to any USB drive or printer you may have. Four USB ports let you share media from attached drives over your network or over the Internet, and even allow you to print to your home printer from anywhere.

If your father is a trigger-happy photo buff, he could probably use a little extra storage. Why not go the extra mile and get him a whole lot? The $315 LaCie 2big Quadra 2TB connects to any PC via eSATA-3, FireWire 800, or USB 2.0. It offers multiple RAID configurations, too, permitting him to choose between maximum storage or maximum data protection.

Dad may have given up his rambling ways long ago, but that doesn't mean he can't take to the open road once in a while. The Harley-Davidson CVO Ultra-Classic Electra Glide matches the distinctive roar of its massive 110-cubic-inch V-Twin with a heated seat, a built-in XM-compatible radio system, GPS navigation, and more high-tech add-ons than you can shake a radar gun at.

No Father's Day gift list would be complete without the obligatory golf accessory. But don't just give Dad any old bag of clubs--get him something that will actually help his game. The OnPar GPS device displays detailed course maps and green readings for more than 14,000 courses around the United States. Is it pricey? You bet. Just charge the $400 to your father's credit card. He'll thank you later.

Some dads just live to print their pics. If your pop is a photo fanatic, get him the Canon Pixma MX7600. Though the printer itself isn't cheap, its ink cartridges are very reasonably priced. More important, this thing spits out high-quality photos at blazing speeds. All it lacks is Wi-Fi, but the Iomega iConnect (four slides back) can take care of that for you.

Okay, so you got Dad a killer gift. Now it's time to make him sweat a little. Don't just wrap that Father's Day gem in the box it came with. Toss it into one of these cheesy gift boxes and sit back as your pop strains to feign enthusiasm for what has to be one of the most appallingly bad gift boxes in the universe. (You'll probably have to encourage him to actually open the box so that he can find the real gift inside.)

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