Editor's Picks: The Best Tech Gifts of 2014

MOMENT LENSES 

Moment Lenses ($100 each) are wonderful, high-quality fish-eye lenses for smartphones. Perfect to use with the new Instagram app Hyperlapse. 
As the editors of POPSUGAR Tech, we search high and low every day for the newest, hottest gadgets and accessories. For the holidays, we've singled out our absolute favorites! In the gallery, take a look at our editor-approved gift picks for 2014. - Additional reporting by Kelly Schwarze and Lisette Mejia 

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WATCH AN IPAD LAND AN AIRPLANE [EXCLUSIVE]

FAILED AIRPLANE ENGINE? UNCONSCIOUS PILOT? THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT. 

High above rural Arkansas, I'm jammed in the back of a small four-seat airplane. Andrew Barker pilots the aircraft while Austin Meyer sits beside him. Everything is going great—until the engine suddenly quits at 5,000 feet. 
With a quick tap on his iPad, Meyer, creator of the popular flight simulator X-Plane, summons his app Xavion to rescue us. 
The program already knows the closest airports that we can successfully glide to. In fact, it’s been tracking our entire flight and plotting a path to them. It also knows what kind of airplane we're flying in (a Van’s Aircraft RV-10), what the weather is like outside (blues skies, gentle wind from the south), and all of the other data it needs relative to heading, airspeed, altitude, and position. 

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WORLD FIRST: MAN CONTROLS TWO PROSTHETIC ARMS WITH HIS MIND

DOCTORS WIRED THEM RIGHT INTO HIS NERVES 

Until recently, losing both arms in an accident would probably have meant the end of a patient's two-fisted grip. Not so for Leslie Baugh, the first shoulder-level double amputee to wear and control two complex, mind-controlled prosthetic limbs. 

Baugh isn't the first person to control robotic limbs with his mind. Some researchers are already working on giving amputee patients back their sense of touch. But the technique is new enough that dual-control has never been tried before. 

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SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW HOW MUCH MORE LIGHT AMERICANS USE DURING THE WINTER HOLIDAYS

PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD CELEBRATE IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS BY TURNING UP THE LIGHTS 



This image shows how U.S. cities use more light at night during the winter holidays. The light analysis was only performed for cities that don't have snow. 

'Tis the season to use way more electricity than you normally would. U.S. cities use so much more light at night during December that the difference can be seen by satellite. U.S. suburbs emit 30 percent to 50 percent more light during the winter holidays, while urban areas emit 20 percent to 30 percent more light, a NASA analysis found. 

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Aditi Rao, Ayushmann, Nimrat, Swara celebrate Richa Chadda's birthday.

                           
Actress Richa Chadda celebrated her 26th birthday in style on Wednesday (December 17) along with good friends Aditi Rao Hydari, Nimrat Kaur, Ayushmann Khuranna and Swara Bhaskar. 
Birthday girl was stylish in a low-back black DKNY gown. 
Aditi Rao Hydari was pretty in a soft coloured maxi dress. 

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Kolkata is home: Sushmita Sen.

                               
Bollywood diva Sushmita Sen was in Kolkata recently. 

Reason? The leggy beauty was the showstopper for a fashion show held at a city five star. Much like old wine, Sush was at her elegant best on the ramp and was a sheer delight for the audience. 

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Hair & there: Chitrangada Singh on hair & skin, and saying Happy New Year to Calcutta.

                                   
Kolkata: There are few women as gorgeous as Chitrangda Singh. She spoke to t2 from Mumbai recently after launching Livon Moroccan Silk Serum. 

You have lovely hair. Did you inherit it? 
It is definitely something that I am also born with. The thing is… because of so much hair treatment and colouring, styling and products that go into your hair on a regular basis, now it involves more looking after the hair.

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Sunny Leone's 'Baby Doll' to Deepika Padukone's 'Lovely': Top 10 Bollywood Item Songs of 2014 [VIDEOS]

                              
Like every year, Bollywood produced several sizzling item numbers in 2014. While many of them failed to impress, some went on to become chartbusters. 
"Baby Doll', "Aata Majhi Satakli", "Nach Basanti" and "Lovely" are some of the hit dance numbers of the year. 

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Bollywood Top Debuts of 2014: Fawad Khan, Tiger Shroff, Kriti Sanon.

                               
Pakistani actor Fawad Khan, who impressed scores of Indian fans with his performance as 'Zaroon' in 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai', became a heartthrob overnight post his debut flick 'Khoobsurat; Jackie Shroff's son Tiger took the big screen by storm with his 'Heropanti'. Here's a look at some fresh faces that made their impressive debuts in Bollywood in 2014.

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