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So maybe you should bathe in it rather than drink it?

You say that to be funny, but... http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5a65/

seriously, how does one play oldschool arcade style games on an iOS device?

A Joystick-It, of course!

Or you can go all out hardcore with an iCade

seriously, how does one play oldschool arcade style games on an iOS device?

A Joystick-It, of course!

Or you can go all out hardcore with an iCade

RFID Blocking Wallet
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/8cdd/?srp=1

RFID Blocking Passport Billfold
https://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/910f/?srp=2

Stainless Steel RFID Blocking Passport Sleeve
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/a7a2/?srp=4

RFID Blocking Wallet
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/8cdd/?srp=1

RFID Blocking Passport Billfold
https://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/910f/?srp=2

Stainless Steel RFID Blocking Passport Sleeve
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/a7a2/?srp=4

RFID Blocking Wallet
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/8cdd/?srp=1

RFID Blocking Passport Billfold
https://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/910f/?srp=2

Stainless Steel RFID Blocking Passport Sleeve
https://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/accessories/a7a2/?srp=4

How about a projected keyboard? Already exists: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/e722/

If this is truly important to you, why don't you see if you can get by using a phone? Get a phone that has HDMI out and then get a cable so you can plug it into the TV at your hotel, or maybe carry on of those small pico projectors (the projector idea sounds annoying.) Maybe get one of these keyboard projectors? http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/e722/

Just hack, re-purpose, and sprinkle stuff like these around: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8c52/

Can I get a percentage of sales?

Here are a few devices pico projectors (60" - 120" max size) many already connect to iPhones

http://www.amazon.com/Optoma-EP-PK-101-Pico-Pocket-Projector/dp/B001L4L7AQ

how about a digital pen.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=digital+pen+writer

I actually have one which has a small base unit which clips to a sheet of paper and tracks the pens position. i imagine it wouldn't be that hard to build it into the side of a phone clip it to the paper and start working maybe. Merging these two types of technology could work, the swipe keyboard were you trace from the letters you want to make the words or there was a system on ubuntu which traced letters moving the most likely letters to be closer to the horizontal path you moved the mouse.

or maybe
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/e722/

a projected full size keyboard (bluetooth)

See the technology is almost there and if built in to a phone you could have your desktop in your pocket. Admittedly the size might be closer to the early cell phones of the 90's

you might be able to slide on a small projection system on to a phone so your phone can be light and easy to carry with this one small peripheral for i/o

If I can think of these things presumably there are engineers already working on prototype phones with good i/o

I got a handy little tool from Think Geek called "The Plastic Surgeon" that works pretty well.

Did it come in a plastic clamshell package?

Yes, yes it did.

I got a handy little tool from Think Geek called "The Plastic Surgeon" that works pretty well.

Did it come in a plastic clamshell package?

I got a handy little tool from Think Geek called "The Plastic Surgeon" that works pretty well.

How about hiding an evil-a-tron in a few of the packages? It makes random noises like creaking, scratching, breathing, child laughing, whispering 'can you hear me?'

And "Battery included lasts over a month."

[Or a sonic grenade. Although that's a quick way to lose your contract.]

How about hiding an evil-a-tron in a few of the packages? It makes random noises like creaking, scratching, breathing, child laughing, whispering 'can you hear me?'

And "Battery included lasts over a month."

[Or a sonic grenade. Although that's a quick way to lose your contract.]

I started in 1981 and there was no d3 then.

And you too can own your own d3, as well as d5, d7, d14, d30, d100

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/d031/?srp=12

I was also going to recommend DicePool but they appear out of business now :{
They had the "odd" dice set cheaper, as well as tens of thousands of normal polyhedral sets, and awesome deals on bulk dice (ie dice by the pound)

There is no d3.

Guess again, Bucky. Link to d3 and other less-common but nevertheless very real dice.

The lowest die is d4.

I've got a d2 right here that cost me only a quarter.

I must admit that I sort of fell in love with the binary watches from ThinkGeek.

So much so that I truly believe that my action shot (and the effort involved in producing it) should have yielded a prize

Here's the training program for that watch.

and get a digital watch like mine that tells the time in binary :) http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6a17/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&CJID=2531453

I always thought that this binary display watch is a rather novel way to spray your geek scent on. It is also fairly styilish and not too loud in design - the LEDs only come on when you press a button.

I was thinking of one of those - but come on, what geek would use 12 hour time?

ThinkGeek has a nice array of watches :
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=watch

Their dipswitch watch is especially fun :)

I always thought that this binary display watch is a rather novel way to spray your geek scent on. It is also fairly styilish and not too loud in design - the LEDs only come on when you press a button.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

Here you go: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/moodinq-tattoo.shtml?srp=6

Seriously... do I seriously have to post a thinkgeek product to slashdot... wow...
  http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/on-sale/e75a/

9-16 bucks.

Saw this on Wired a few weeks ago. Looks dangerous indeed. I prefer my caffeine in liquid or solid, not gaseous, form, TYVM.

(Yes, I'm aware that an inhalant powder is technically solid; don't get pendantic).

Kind of like the Venus Flytrap. Contrary to popular belief, it is native to the coastal plains of North/South Carolina, not some exotic tropical jungle. Efforts to introduce them elsewhere have mostly failed, even though apparently someone has done so in New Jersey. I have a nice small colony which I grow outside year round in Maryland, but it requires upkeep. These plants would never survive here without my help. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? H'mm, those plants look a little big to be eating just insects. Are they supposed to be moving like that? Wait a #y!(132~a... NO_CARRIER

Tablets are generally designed to be resilient, and usable by the unskilled. For that reason, they can't usually be locked down like this, because the feature, in and of itself, is more technical than tablets are meant to be.

I don't know much about Androids, but an iPad makes a good example. Can you hijack DNS on the your wifi network? Yes... but it's incredibly easy to join another wifi network that isn't redirected, and there are no User and Administrator type accounts to keep people from doing so.

If you jailbreak an iPad, there is an extension you can install that locks it into a particular app (the browser, in this case). But getting around it involves, I think, nothing fancier than rebooting the device. You could modify the Hosts file on it to redirect no matter which network the user is on, as well... but a dedicated goof-off could always resort to direct DNS entry to cause mischief.

I would try to find out if anyone sells a wireless display with touchscreen capabilities. That could be linked to a computer that's locked down at an arbitrary level, and would prevent users from engaging in the kinds of shennigans they get up to when they have access to function keys and Reset buttons. If users can use the ctrl key or reboot the machine, you -will- end up with porn on your browser.

As a bonus, the device would be borderline useless to anyone who walks off with it and isn't fairly gadget-oriented, and you might be able to run several of them off of one host machine.

If this exists, someone should let me know, because I've made made want one.

If it doesn't you cold even use one of these:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/c609/

Wireless is great, but the real goal is just something hand-held that each person in the waiting room can have one of. Run some USB cables out to each end-table in the waiting room, and attach them to these. They're cheap, so have them stolen is less of an issue... unplugging them makes the, stop working, which makes them less immediately temping... they have no keyboard and no buttons that affect the actual computer behind the scenes... They're a perfect solution if you don't mind a few cables.

When I heard about the motion controls on the wii, I thought "This is going to make for some pretty cool games!"

It turned out to be mostly a stupid gimmick, or at best an answer to a question no one asked.

When I heard about the kinect, I thought "Great, another stupid, pointless product no one will use."

Maybe I should buy stock in whatever company makes these.

my wife bought it for me, but a quick google shows me it looks exactly like http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/?srp=1

Would this protect the card?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/9964/

t-shirt for that. Why reinvent the app? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/991e/?cpg=clrss

Put another way, that's almost 10 cases of Bawls, which is about three times what programmers in the U.S. are paid per week.

If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/stickers/9d48/

Slashdotter-customized LED Panels - http://www.ecogroled.com/ Awesome Geek Toys - http://www.thinkgeek.com/

I had to laugh... dope growing light kits are "Slashdotter-customized"?

That's hilarious!

These hollow coins might provide some level of protection. I've never seen one up close, but they claim to be milled from real currency. Not much good if you're not American, though.

Europeans can't carry American currency?

These hollow coins might provide some level of protection. I've never seen one up close, but they claim to be milled from real currency. Not much good if you're not American, though.

Not exactly a 5 button one, but here's one with 7 buttons: Micro Remote

if only the parent company of this internet web site chat room message board didn't already sell many products that contract your statements, i might not think you were an idiot.

if only the parent company of this internet web site chat room message board didn't already sell many products that contract your statements, i might not think you were an idiot.

if only the parent company of this internet web site chat room message board didn't already sell many products that contract your statements, i might not think you were an idiot.

if only the parent company of this internet web site chat room message board didn't already sell many products that contract your statements, i might not think you were an idiot.

if only the parent company of this internet web site chat room message board didn't already sell many products that contract your statements, i might not think you were an idiot.

Every year near my birthday I have the same ritual as yourself, But i update a list from a save in my Mozilla cache with URL's and passwords and update it to a Flash Drive that i keep in one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/855d/?srp=1 For 12 dollars over at least 5 years you too can share the same security that I do ;)

You might find these helpful, then: 2D Glasses or De-3D Cinema Glasses

You might find these helpful, then: 2D Glasses or De-3D Cinema Glasses

here you go.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/ea64/?srp=1

In toys? They are the toy.

Magnet set

So does that mean Slashdot/ThinkGeek/GeekNet is trying to kill off our future nerds and geeks? :P

Ingredients:

1) shock ball
https://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/91b8/

2) sound activated switch, or remote control key fob
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&cp=15&gs_id=4t&xhr=t&q=sound+activated&tok=cfDqh3Z4o5al7PvFQnbO6A&newwindow=1&safe=off&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1158&bih=1045&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=4723724170775609297&sa=X&ei=2y7qTuy_FurL0QHZx83ICQ&sqi=2&ved=0CEsQ8wIwAQ

3) small high current battery with 12v dc charger to power the above two circuits

4) Some wire mesh, or thin wire to thread through the knapsack and straps. Note: A good connection to the metal zipper is essential.

While this home brew device, like your theft deterrent bag idea, will not prevent a thief from smashing through your car window to open the door, it will be quite entertaining to the people passing by, and present an event that they might actually take note of and thus produce viable witnesses. Add a motion activated video camera to your car dash if you want to watch for yourself. I bet the video would go viral on Youtube and you will quickly identify the culprit.