Posts tagged Geek Gift
Geeky Gift Guide 2007: What to get the Geek in your life for the holiday.
Dec 3rd
So, you have come to the right place to search for advice on what to get that geek in your life for the holiday season.
Read on, because we have compiled a list of what we salivate over bought ourselves want.
I don’t care if you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us) or Some Klingon version of the holidays this guide will help you actually get your loved ones (geeks) what they actually want this year! Yes you can make your children think you know what they like or make your husband think you took the time to see what he wants…
Some of these gadgets we have covered, some we own and some we sweat the hell out of. What do you want for the holidays? Did we miss it on our list? Hit us up in the comments kidz!
1. AnnoyATron ($9.99) – Annoy your co-workers, friends or buy 10 of them and drive some one InSanE.
2. Ninja Remote ($8.99) – Ever wanted to change the channels in a doctor’s waiting office, dealership or local bar (don’t try this during the super bowl!)
3. LED Magnetized Telescopic Rescue Stick ($4.99) – Truly the magic stick! Get those screws out of hard to reach places. This thing is a life saver!
4. Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap ($6.99) – Caffeinated Soap?? For the smelly slow geek in your life. Or buy this for yourself and make your showers more invigorating!
5. DNA 11 Fingerprint and DNA Art ($190+) – The hottest new art style. This product combines good taste with technology. The crazy dudes over at DNA11 take real DNA samples from you and depict them, tastefully, as art. You can have your fingerprint, lip print, or DNA sequence transcribed as art. And as art goes, the price point isn’t too shabby either. Definitely one of our top 5 Geek gifts
6. Philips Skype Phone ($99.99)
We love this! No more static on our home cordless phone – worth every penny just for that!
7. HTC Dopod – ($340)
Available via import only :( . My wife got mine from eBay for around 3 bills and I am loving it! She even transfered over my data while I slept! Now that’s love.
8. Matias Folding Keyboard ($59.95) – A full out folding keyboard! Awesome to the max.
9. V-moda Vibe Duo iPhone Sexy Headphones ($101) – They are what they say they are and iPhone compatible!
10. Futurama - Bender’s Big Score on DVD ($19.99)
Brand new Futurama. Not to be missed for any Futurama or Simpson’s Fan!
11.Samsung SCH i760 ($350)
Windows Mobile 6 touch screen slider on verizon.
12. The Samsung Juke music phone. ($100-)
Price is with a contract.
13. The Dell Sexy XPS One - ($2000+)
Dell is finally competing with the Appley looks. But it will cost you $2k+
14. The colorful dell XPS 1330 laptop. ($1299-)
or cheaper.
15. The Simpsons Video Game for PSP or WII – ($59.99)
New hi-jinx from the whole crew. I have been playing this for a week on my psp!
16. Parrot ($120)
Turn your non-bluetooth car into bluetooth heaven without wires.
17. GelaSkins ( $Varies)
Protect your laptop, phone or ipod from scratches and make it look dope at the same time. practical and looks good.
18. Sentry Safe QA0121 ($169.99 )
Protect your data from disasters storing your info on a Maxtor usb drive inside a everything proof safe.
19. De- static shocker ($9.99)
Do you or somebody you know get shocked often? Here is a cheap geeky solution from ThinkGeek. (Back ordered :( )
20. Smudge guard ($9.99)
for the graphic designer who uses a tablet. guess what it does?
21. USB Coffee warmer. ($24.99)
Maintains warmth or cold in your cubicle.
22. A WII – ($250 if you can find one!)
No self respecting geek should be without one. Pronounced Weeeeeeeee! The best Video Game Console on the market today!
23. Zboost Personal Cell Signal Booster ($169)
Zboost Boost zP extends a Cell ZoneTM for a single user in dorms, hotels, homes or offices.
24. Open It – ($10.99)
The ultimate all-in-one tool for opening packaging. Makes a perfect gift for a Geek or Admin who is constantly ordering and returning geeky electronics.
Learn more at www.wrapragecure.com
And for you procrastinators check out the The New Moxi Media Center in 2008! And what do you think we missed? Love it or hate it – let AtA and the rest of the world know in the comments below!
Happy Gobble Gobble…
Nov 22nd
We wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our loyal readers (and those just passing by) from the whole AtA family. We are about to hit the 600 reader mark – meaning we gained another 100 readers in the last month… Nice! Our traffic and email volume has also increased AGAIN – thanks for the love.
Samsung just sent us a demo unit of the SCH-i760 and V-moda sent us their Vibe Duo fancy shmancy iPhone headphones. So we will have some new reviews and give-aways coming up (The headphones not the phone).
You guys rock big time, thanks for the continued support and well wishes. I am off to enjoy my new daughter for a bit before I have to start fixing everyone in the family’s laptops and desktops that they schlep from halfway around the world… Feeling me? Everyone else has the day off. The Admin still has to work! Don’t be shy send in your questions and we will keep on answering them. Even the SUPER strange ones that I have to share with you soon. Stay tuned Admins…
So which shirt should I go with – Black or white? Yeah, your right black is much more formal.
_TheTurkeySmellsGoodAdmiN_
Dell One = Sexy Time
Nov 21st
This is definitely a sweet looking PC.
This is the way a home desktop PC should look.
It’s a little pricey, but it is in line, price wise, as the iMacs and the other Windows based all-in- ones that have hit the market.
Edit by the AdmiN: Hey I know, I know we used the word sexy and did not have any gratuitous naked chicks. But hey I’m out of the office today. We saw her all purty like last month in the flesh and maybe we will give her a twirl soon. Here is a link to the XPS One PcMag review.
CES NYC Press Preview Unveiled!
Nov 14th
The Admin and Commodore 64 attended the CES International 2008 Press Preview last night. We were on a mission to find new gizmos and gadgets for our upcoming post
“It’s A Geeky Christmas! What to get the geek in your life for the holidays.”
We searched high and low (mostly near the fancy finger foods and at the bar ) then we hit the exhibits. Somehow we wound up with an Exhibitor pass instead of the standard press pass… I started to wait in line to get it all fixed up but then the security guard told me i can go right into the show floor – which was not going to be open for another half hour. Sweet! No line at the bar… No line for food. And no lines at the booths! Super Sweet.
We found a few really cool stocking stuffers and some great low and high end gifts. Some brand new technology and some re-vamped old ones. Check out the highlights:
- A Gold and Fake Snake Skin Motorola Razr V8
- The Dragon is a premium class-1 Bluetooth headset with 100-meter range and dual-mic noise suppression, designed for all-day usage and top performance. It can be used as a two way radio as well. The octopus looking usb hub was cool as well from CallPod.
- AtA’s first hands on with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). I was told we can buy them individually but no one could tell me how. If I was Fidel Castro they would have told me! AMD showed us this little guy along with some other very cool stuff.
- Parrot’s Hands Free Car Kit from the Awesome hands of Philips
- A helmet cam
- A Blinged Out Hello Kitty Laptop? Kind of hurts a little eh? AMD had it on display next to some of their fabulous new itty bitty chips that bring ATI graphics to phones and other small platforms.
We also came across some amazing new takes on Wireless USB from WiQuest, RCA is helping old people that don’t know that their old analog TV’s will stop working in 2012 by offering a converter, Alpines Mobile Media Solution – these things keep getting smaller and smaller! I played with some Solid State Drives from SanDisk, Audio Vox has some awesome (Cheap) two way radios and Turbo Charge had really cheap portable chargers for almost every possible mobile device.
Review units will be coming in shortly and we are hard at work compiling our Geeky List for our readers (and their significant others). If you have something you want to submit or just share with us please drop a email to tips at askTheAdmin.com and we will check everything out!
So what do you want for the holidays? Let us know – or if you don’t know what you want send that close someone over to AtA in December for a list of “AtA approved Geeky Goodness” Patent Pending :)
Dell Precision M6300 – The unboxing of the mobile workstation
Oct 7th
After some hubbub and waiting on Fed-Ex I finally got my Dell Precision M6300 to review. The FedEx guy handed me the box and immediately I felt how seriously massive this machine was.
Dell™ Home Notebooks
I quickly brought it inside and started the unboxing ritual as you can see from the pictures below. This monster of a laptop is sporting a 17 inch 1920×1200 screen and an NVIDIA Quadro FX1600M OpenGL graphics card. This bad boy is serious! Wow that screen looks beautiful!
After using the Dell X1, with its 12 inch screen, for so long this thing feels massive on my lap. The screen feels like I am working on a normal flat panel monitor. I went to go plug this guy in and noticed the huge power brick. Again the M6300 is not playing around.
This lappie rocks a 2.8 Ghz, 64-bit Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition X7900 processor from Intel in combination with that beautiful screen this laptop is a powerhouse.
Our demo unit has a 80 gig 7200RPM mechanical hard drive but you can opt for the 32GB solid-state drive instead. We got a DVD-RW with ultra speed but you can opt for a Blu-ray writable optical drive. The built-in card reader supports SD, MMC and MS Pro’s. The finger print reader is handy for those who need extra security.
For all you mobile fans you can cop a internal AT&T 3.5G/HSDPA card. But be prepared to crack open your wallet and fork over a nice chunk of change starting at $2417 $1959. Seeming this lappie is more powerful then my current desktop – the word desktop replacement comes to mind.
Dell™ Home Notebooks
We will be giving it a solid going over with our hands-on use over the next week and report back with our final verdict. But I am beginning to think I will have a hard time going back to my little X1! I am going to load up Photoshop CS3, blog as usual, watch a few flicks, download and do all my normal day to day activities from this beauty for the week. So if you are thinking of buying this laptop and have questions – now is the time to ask! Check out the updating Flickr set here.
Wednesday’s Deal O’ The Day
Jun 20th
Hot! Buy.com – Two Crucial 2GB Secure Digital Cards for $18.99 after Rebate, Shipped Free!!
Great for all those digital camera and other tech goodies that need storage!
_TheDealFindingAdmin_
