21 Thoughtful Gift Ideas For Your High-Tech Valentine

Source: PC Magazine, Chandra Steele
Photo: Courtesy of Urban Outfitters

Still searching for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your tech-savvy sweetheart? We have ideas, including a Lego bouquet, a heart-shaped phone charger, a two-person-only messaging app, and more.

Romance is not easy. Meet-cutes are rare. Online dating can be… disappointing. And meeting someone through friends can get messy. But if you’re reading this, you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for someone. And even if that someone isn’t a significant other, you’re still surrounded by love. Now—to find a gift to celebrate that.

Let us help. We found gifts to love that go beyond flowers and chocolates. They all have a touch of tech, such as heart-shaped boxes that let you send digital gifts and wearables that light each other up remotely. Many are geared toward keeping your connection alive throughout the year, whether you’re down the hall or across the world. (If you’re looking for new love, check out our roundup of the best dating apps.)

Duly Love-Noted

Pixel Lovebox
$99.99 at lovebox

A note by any other name would smell as sweet, provided it arrives in a Lovebox. Gift the box and fill it with love notes through its app, which lets you send text messages, drawings, photos, and stickers (depending on which model you choose) that appear on a screen inside the box. When your message arrives, the heart on the front of the box spins.

Arm in Arm

ToTwoo Always Soulmate Smart Bracelets
$169.95 at Totwoo

No matter how far apart you are, you can be just a touch away with the ToTwoo Always Soulmate Smart Bracelets. Pair them with the app, and you and your love can light up each other’s days using the bracelets. You can also use the app to send pictures, videos, audio, and text.

Work of Heart

Da Vinci Eye
$9.99 at Da Vinci Eye

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but rendering it on the page is beyond your skills. You can still create a portrait of your beloved with Da Vinci Eye. The app uses AR projection, so you can paint or sketch whatever you capture with your phone’s camera.

Put a Ring Light on It

ILYO Seven-Color Heart-Shaped Ring Light
$140.00 at Amazon

Everybody’s using ring lights these days to look better in video chats and TikTok videos. Send them a heart-shaped one so they’re always reminded of you, even during work meetings. It’ll also create an interesting reflection in your glasses or photo frames.

Send Them Reel-ing

Create Your Own Reel Viewer
$29.95 at Uncommon Goods

For those of us of a certain age, many an hour was spent with a View-Master, clicking away and peering at tiny snapshots of animals, Barbie, and Disney characters. This reel viewer lets you upload seven photos of your own for a personalized hit of nostalgia.

Love Days

Social Print Studio Valentine’s Day Calendar
$60.50 at Social Print Studio

The Social Print Studio Valentine’s Day Calendar starts and ends on February 14th (which gets a special heart-shaped reminder of the day) and can be filled with your personal photos, so your loved one has a reason to smile every day of the year.

Picture Perfect

Aura Mason Smart Digital Picture Frame
$199.00 at Amazon

The Aura Smith frame can be filled with a rotation of most-loved moments. Upload your photos, and Aura uses curation tools to find the best ones and remove duplicate and blurry shots. The frame has no subscription fee or storage limit, and you can invite friends and family to add photos via the Aura app.

I Can See Your Halo

Halo Valentine’s Vintage Fleece Crewneck Sweatshirt
$39.99 at Xbox

You love two things: your SO and Halo. Show them with this Halo Valentine’s Vintage Fleece Crewneck Sweatshirt. It’s part of the Xbox Gear Shop’s Valentine’s Day collection.

Just Between Us

Visit Site at Between

You could set up a secure chat on Signal or WhatsApp, but neither is particularly romantic. Between is an app built just for two. You can communicate and keep track of all of your special memories and days (ahem, anniversaries) in one place. It’s available on iOS, Android, Mac, and PC.

Turn On Your Heartlight

Heart Shaped Cordless Magic Bulb Light
$40.00 at Amazon

This Heart Shaped Cordless Magic Bulb Light stands alone. Its heart-shaped filament gives off a warm, pink glow for five hours before it needs to be recharged.

Share and Share Alike

Dual Heart iPhone Charging Cable
$17.00 at Kikkerland Design

If your relationship is suffering from a power struggle, this dual-heart iPhone charging cable lets you each charge your phones and avoid arguments about who is more in need of the Lightning cable.

Call Me Maybe

Bandolier Willa
$145.00 at Bandolier

Unconventional shapes for bags are in vogue. And this heart-shaped Willa phone case with an attached pouch from Bandolier is a unique and sweet take on the trend. It comes in red, silver, or black.

Built on Love

Lego Flower Bouquet
$47.99 at Amazon

Real flowers perish, but 8-bit is forever. This Lego bouquet approximates the look of yesteryear and—like your love—will never die. With 756 pieces and 15 stems, your loved one can customize and enjoy plastic-brick versions of roses, daisies, and asters long past Valentine’s Day. If you think love should be easier to assemble, Lego also sells two long-stem red roses.

Book of Love

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
$14.71 at Amazon

Platonic love and video-game design feature in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a novel that charts the lives of two game developers and their creation over three decades.

There Are No Words

Personalizable M&Ms Gift Jar in You Stole My Heart
$29.99 at M&M’S

Chocolate can spell love, but these M&Ms can spell anything you like, because they’re personalizable. Once you choose the colors you want and select a message, they’re packed into a case that makes your feelings clear.

Cameo de Bergerac

Cameo
4.0
Visit Site at Cameo

Maybe you can’t find the words to say to your loved one this Valentine’s Day, but Kenny G can: Send them a personalized video message from him on Cameo. If they’re not into his saxophone stylings, plenty of other celebs and influencers can speak for you (including Woz).

Infinite Objects Video Print
Visit Site at Infinite Objects

Animated GIFs are art, and you can be the artist with an Infinite Objects video print. Upload your own MP4 or MOV video clip or a TikTok video and turn it into a moving video print to display anywhere. You can also choose from existing ones, like I Randomly Love You, a work by Japanese artist duo exonemo—it’s a 30-minute loop of random adverbs selected by a computer that are inserted into a conversation of “I love yous.”

Light Up Their Life

Kikkerland Rainbow Maker Heart
$37.50 at Amazon

Dazzle your SO every day with this solar-powered Kikkerland Rainbow Maker Heart. It has a Swarovski heart that turns sunbeams into room-filling rainbows.

Scentsational

Scentbird
$16.95 Per Month at Scentbird

Giving them a fragrance can be fraught: Picking the wrong one is an expensive mistake. Instead, send them a Scentbird subscription, and your love will receive a new scent of their choosing to try each month. The subscription comes with a fabulous atomizer, too.

I Love You Like a Love Song, Baby

QFX RETRO-39 Shoebox Tape Recorder with USB Player
$31.22 at Amazon

A Spotify playlist has nothing on an old-school mixtape. Transfer your music to a cassette via USB so your eternal flame can play it back on this cassette player.

Hooked on a Feeling

Kiiroo Onlyx and Cliona Couples Set
$289.00 at Kiiroo

If you’re apart from your significant other, Kiiroo makes a line of sex toys for men and women that can be used from across the room or across the world.

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