If you have a doom and gloom somebody in your life that can’t get enough facts about how to survive in the face of disaster, these ten electronic gift ideas will help them feel more secure.

Electronic Christmas Gifts for The Worry Wart

1. Dissolved Oxygen Meter

   This device allows you to check the quality of the water including the amount of oxygen and adjusts for pressure, temperature and salinity.

2.  Air Quality Meters

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   A number of devices are available to test the quality of your air including for natural gas and carbon dioxide and radon. Here’s a good site that supplies them.

3. Geiger Counter

   Worried about radiation leaks, here’s one of many places where you can pick up a Geiger counter to test the area for radiation.

4.  EMF Protection and Tester

   This one looks a little too flaky to be real but if it really worried you, this is an answer, other than turning off all your electric gear.

5. Reader

   These electronic readers allow you to carry around useful information and read it. A number of brands are available using Electronic Ink’s technology, read more and find some of the most popular brands:

   • Amazon Kindle
   • Sony Reader
   • iRex iLiad Ebook
   • Don’t forget to load your reader up with some of the most popular content:
   • Bible
   • Medical Dictionary
   • Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
6. GPS

   GPS devices help to let you know where you are and where you are going. Here’s some of the more popular brands:

   Magellan

   The Magellan Roadmate 1700 has a larger screen for navigating in your car.

   Garmin

   Make personal GPS devices, devices for hiking, biking and to plot charts in Marine vehicles amongst other items.

   Nextar

   Laipac

   These make personal tracking devices so that you can find someone who gets lost because of illness or other reasons.

7. Solar Powered USB Charger

   Since many of the devices use USB memory to store data, it would help to have a way to power them in the event the power was out. Get your solar powered USB charger and don’t worry.

   Or make your own solar powered device, read more.

8. Taser

   For personal safety, a taser may be your weapon of choice, just be sure you can charge it if you plan on relying on it during a disaster.

9. Hand-Powered Emergency Radio

   These are electronic, most take batteries or plug in, but you can also crank them up to power them. Here’s two companies that offer them:

   Herrington

   National Geographic

10. Portable Generator

    Here’s a handy guide for selecting a portable generator to use to supply power using alternate fuels in case of disaster.