Thankful as you are for your presents, the techie in you wasn’t quite satisfied. These 10 options may scratch that geek itch.
It’s hard to be a geek at Christmastime. Sure, there are lots of cool tech toys and gadgets on display on store shelves, and a few may have landed under your tree this year. Perhaps Absolutely Mad: 50 Years of Mad Magazine on DVD, a Microsoft Xbox 360, an Apple MacBook Pro 2008 edition, a Garmin Nuvi 880, and one or more of the hot smartphones: the Apple iPhone 3G, the Palm Treo Pro, the RIM BlackBerry Storm, or the T-Mobile G1.
But it takes a geek to know what a true geek really wants, and chances are your friends and family aren’t all that geeky.
So which true-geek items might they have given you? InfoWorld’s band of mad scientists — a motley crew of software, networking, datacenter, and hardware experts that habituates the InfoWorld Test Center — offers recommendations on what they lust after … and know their fellow geeks do, too. Christmas may be over, but you can still give the gift of geek tech to yourself
[ Watch our geek gift guide slideshow. | Looking for a high-tech collectible? Peruse David Margulius’ collectible tech gift guide. | Curious about last year’s geek gift guide recommendations? Check them out! ]
In alphabetical order, here are our top 10 picks: * Apple Time Capsule * Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit * Cathode Corner Nixie Watch * EVGA GTX 200 Waterblock * Eye-Fi Explore * 4th Motion Gyroxus Full-Motion Game Chair * MvixUSA MvixBox * Sky Factory SkyV * SRS Labs iWow for iPod Adapter * Yoggie Gatekeeper Pico
And delve into our guide to collectible tech.
OK, we know you also really want a new mobile. If you didn’t get one for the holidays, get the scoop on InfoWorld Test Center’s top mobile picks.
