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What to get that deeply geeky special someone? Yes, we geekettes can be quite particular about our entertainments and enjoyments. What to do? Here are some possible tips:
- Geeky t-shirt
Most people won't get it, and that's the point, isn't it? Cafe Press has quite an assortment.Price: $23.99
- Super-cute solar-powered shoulder bag
Charge your gadgets while you walk.
The revolutionary thin and flexible solar charging system that charges all your iPods, Cell Phones, GPS, Cameras, etc. It's as easy as charging your phone in the car!
And all seams are stitched "to military specifications" -- which, one hopes, means they're good, right? Comes in black, yellow and a hot crimson red.
Price: $250
- Toyota Prius
Okay, what I really want is a BMW 335xi to drive the mountain roads of Colorado, but for tooling about the town and (flat) highway, the Honda Prius is the economical way to go. What with gas prices pushing ever upward, those 44 miles per gallon start to look pretty good! Don't like the style? Go with the Camry hybrid. More comfort for the same mileage!
Price: starts at $20,950 (the BMW runs from $40,800 and up)
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LED keychain light
Costs only a few bucks, but boy oh boy does this nifty gadget come in handy! Whether you're crawling under your desk to plug a new external drive into your computer or peering into your mailbox after dark, having a hand-held mini-spotlight is just the ticket. There are any number of suppliers, so don't you settle for the mundane now!
Price: $3-$20.
- Sony VGN-FZ290 lightweight notebook computer with Blu-ray burner
It's light. It's stylish. It's thin. It's light (well, 5.4 pounds is fairly light). It's the machine I'm coveting. Maybe your special someone covets it, too? Get it all tricked out, with the 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 gigs of RAM, the 200GB 7200 hard drive, the XBRITE-HiColor screen, and the extended battery. The NVIDIA® GeForce® video card, 802.11n and Bluetooth® come with it.
Price: about $3,000
- Wacom Cintiq 12WX tablet with built-in screen
For the computer artist, this is the way to go. No more drawing on a blank slate while looking away at a screen. Now you can draw write on the screen. Awesome!
Price: $999 (and only $2,499 for the Cintiq 21UX!)
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The Ohm's Law Clock
Yes, that Ohm's Law! This deeply geeky timepiece doesn't have numbers, it has formulas.
Yes, rather than seeing a bunch of easy-to-read numbers, you'll be faced with all the formulas that relate power, current, voltage and resistance, which would never get old, I'm sure.
You could get this for your kid if you really, really want them to learn these formulas, but unless your kid is really stupid they'll be able to figure out what time it is just based on where the hands are without doing any math, I'm sorry to say. So I guess you'll need to find some other sneaky, stupid way of getting them to learn.
Yeah, but it's sure to get a good laugh.
Price: $19.99
- The new flat Apple keyboard
You may want to hold off getting that someone special OSX Leopard, or you may simply want to avoid buying anything Mac at all, given the seemingly increasingly unreliable hardware and not-quite-Mensa-level "genius" support, but seriously, this keyboard is pretty darned cool! Those old Mac keyboards worked the fingers hard, but with this switch-key baby the touch is light, yet not mushy, vague or trigger happy.Price: $49 (USB), $79 (Bluetooth)
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LED menorah
For the geeky Hannukah experience, this open source gizmo is the ultimate celebration of light. The eco-friendly LEDs are light on the energy needs ... and they last!
Our mini-LED Hanukkah menorah is a modern update of the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one "real" candle plus the uppity lighter candle, or shamash which apparently doesn't count), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night. That's (2+9)*(8/2)=44 candles all together, for those of you keeping score.
Ours works pretty much the same way, but uses less wax. When you turn it on, it steadily (without blinking or animation) displays the correct configuration of LED "candles" for a given night of Hanukkah. Each time that it is switched off and back on, it
