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An anonymous reader writes "I was recently asked by a coworker to come up with a list of <implied> expensive </implied> and cool gadgets for a VIP. He was interested in anything that was up-and-coming, rare and the usual odd combination of devices (ie. anything with a camera/WiFi that shouldn't have it). I figured that since it was Friday, it may be a good day to see what the /. crew has up their sleeves."
I bet this VIP is trying to keep up with them damn, rich, cool yet geeky Jones' who laugh at him while he takes his Aibo for a stroll while riding his Segway. Like, that Segway is so 3 months ago and the Aibo, OH MY GOD -- its like, ancient.
PLEASE do not respond to this article! I can't afford it!
I've had this sig for three days.
Not hideously expensive as things go but the Geekiness factor is astronomical.
Not all of it requires a plug, and not all of it meets your "expensive" criteria, but it's full of great, high-quality stuff you didn't know you needed.
--H
One useful:
The Handspring Treo 600
One not as much
Airzooka Air Gun
this
check out gizmodo for the newest gadgets
http://www.gizmodo.com
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geek toys shouldn't be expensive because it's not a geek toy if it doesn't run linux, and since linux is free, the toy be extension should also be free.
Try to find fault with that logic!
I figured that since it was Friday, it may be a good day to see what the /. crew has up their sleeves.
Are you implying I don't have anything better to do on a Friday night?!
Well Sir, you are correct.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/ 0,2000048640,20268993,00.htm
"Korea's LG Electronics is selling a 26-cubic-foot Multi-Media Refrigerator, with a built-in 15-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) screen for watching TV, surfing the Internet or looking at digital pictures."
I don't know about the rest of you, but when I go to the fridge to grab a coke, I like to stand there and watch a quick sitcom on a 15" LCD display. Right...
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
http://www.thinkgeek.com
Particularly this, i love it, but unfortunatly i bought the 256Mb before the price drop and also shortly before the released a USB2 version which isn't carried by thinkgeek yet.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I've been drooling over this at ThinkGeek for months since I first saw this. Just can't justify $120.
Green Laser Pointer at ThinkGeek.com
---- Move SIG...For great justice!
If you're not from the States, Segway might be a good idea. I have yet to see one in Europe and I travel quite a bit.
The RIM 7200 Series is by far the best PDA/GSM Phone/StarTrek TriCorder ever created. Show him *that*.
Looking at stuff on my desk, and coming up with some weird brainstorms: Wi-Fi Orange Juice? Wi-Fi Stapler? (a red one too!) Wi-Fi CD-Rom case (actually kinda handy in telling you if your CD is in the case or not, if possible for the truly lazy!) Wi-Fi books (I suppose the ability to communicate their contents into PDF might be kinda cool, just a bit expensive I would think...) Wi-Fi pen (how much ink is left?) Ok manufacturers take note...
...in bed
A couple of G5s and iSight cameras. They really are quite fun to play with.
Well you can't get geekier and VIPer than a Seqway.
OF course a 30+inch flat plasma wide screen HDTV also qualifies.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
I'd think that one obvious place to look would be Slashdot's sister site, ThinkGeek. It has all of the latest and presumably greatest technobaubles that any geek could possibly want. Of course after getting ideas there you might want to shop around to see if you can get a better price, since I think that they're a bit on the high side pricewise.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
The Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog has a his/her set of programmable butler robots. The damn things will open the doors and, via their built-in camera, give you a view of your visitors before you get to the door. They also can help you bring in your groceries. They don't give a mention of whether they're able to do a fresh install of Gentoo, though. All this for only ... $400,000.
something like this or if I remember there was some cool ones on here a year or two ago that rotated and you climbed into like going into a space capsule, but those were around $5,000-USD so... Anyway, I think having a good desk is very important.
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
I don't have a product in mind, but I recommend you take 2 weeks and leave no stone unturned in your seach. Make sure you spend time at home in deep contemplation on the issue. Take field trips to see what cool stuff other VIPs are using. Maybe fly to Europe and attend a trade show or two.
After that, spend 4 weeks writing your report.
8)
Isn't a G5 cluster one of the newest/oldest cool things mentioned on /. lately? Better yet, it's pretty easy to make hideously expensive. And you might even consider creating a in-memory Oracle database using 10,000 G5 machines. The VIP would have his/her own Google :)
btw, can we use that as a noun yet? Like a gaggle of geese, a herd a cattle or a school of fish, can we have a Google of computers?
How about a bendable piece of plastic with a vagina ? Sounds like a great answer for a poser, or a tool!
Give him a new iPod. They're pretty expensive and are fucking awesome.
I want one so bad...
Bugs are just features that have been fixed.
Pretty cool...
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I could easily spend a year's salary here.
Sony camcorder with internet connectivity for transfering MPEG video and still picture files. ;-)
This may not seem like a typical "toy", but Apple PowerBook G4 17" notebook is really fun. It's expensive, but it's got a HUGE screen, it's thin ( 1"), built-in 802.11b/g, a built-in DVD/CD burner, built-in BlueTooth, FireWire 400 and 800, light sensors that automatically adjust the backlighting on the screen /and/ and keyboard, and that's just the hardware. Software-wise, it comes with movie-creation and DVD-burning software, a nice calendar, and address book. Make a package consisting of one of these, an iPod, and a Bluetooth-enabled PDA and cell phone, and he'll be wowed. Plus it's all very pretty :)
They have made a very affordable ($900 body only/$1000 with a lens) digital slr that fits all of their EF lenses. http://www.canoneos.com/digitalrebel/index.html
not that expensive, but there's little that's geekier
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http://www.modexotics.com/www/p102950_v1.html
'Nuf said.
Amazon's Early Adopters page can be fairly useful when browsing for expensive toys....
The iPod should be high on your list.
how about a Phantasy Phone, a Terror-o-meter, or a Technology Detector.
Any Samsung DLP TV.
The newer ones have Discrete IR code support for progrramming your cool remote.
Hit | Mute 1 8 2 Power | buttons to get into the Service Menu and check the video board version #. Board numvers "xxx...zzz-2.14" or higher will support DNIE and IR codes.
Have fun.
Check out avsforum.com for more details.
Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss
Shure makes some incredible earphones, and they are $500. Work as earplugs too.
They are even better if you get custom made inserts.
I've been happy with my similar (but $50) Fontopia MDR-EX71SL headphones from Sony, but have been eyeing these others for a while.
Well, if car audio is your fancy, Alpine has some $3,500 three-way speakers for 'ya. A little beyond my price range though ;) . Of course, you can strike up a healthy debate as to whether or not speakers like this can justify their price.
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"Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so."-Lawrence Lessig
Best vibrator / massager out there.
I have a wishlist account with /.'s sister site called thinkgeek. go there and i'm sure you will find something awesome.
www.thinkgeek.com
Sincerely, Czephyr
The Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyzer. Www.ibva.com
I hear that there's a record-breaking Dorito selling on eBay...
I'm going to the casino. Don't gamble.
Sister Jean Stole The Files!
http://www.realdoll.com
He can always stick wifi in it if he wants. You could get it to stream the audio from pr0n on your PC.
a VIP with an uber-cool gadget that will be shown to other clueless VIPs just for the sake of having it?
it's so sad.. I hate seeing all that technology being wasted into the hand of a clueless person.
I know, I know - money equals more research on it and price dropping.
But I feel sad about that anyway.
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
... I've been looking for a source to buy huge, functional, cartoon-style buttons, levers, and such. Can anyone help?
the new 40Gig iPod is nice and pricey, and totally cool.
Perhaps the new 1GHz 12" Apple PowerBook?
Certainly a Sony Aibo is expensive and unnecessary, but can be useful in harassing the interns.
Or a UX50 CLIE(TM) Handheld PEG-UX50 PDA. Very cool, and uber-sexy.
If you want impractical, get a Rubberband Machine gun (http://www.backyardartillery.com/machinegun/) Oh yeah. Great for hostile takeovers!
Also check out their remote control tanks that shoot BBs: http://www.backyardartillery.com/tanks/. Sweet. (don't forget the plastic Army men to go along with the tanks!)
Dan's Data (http://www.dansdata.com/) reviews a lot of fun toys like the above. LED flashlights, tanks, and what-not. Maybe a super-modded computer case? Maybe a Powerball (http://www.dansdata.com/gyrotwister.htm#pball would do.
You can always check out the Sharper Image catalog, too. Lots of expensive junk in there.
http://WWW.veo.com
howabout a camera with wifi?
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
First of all, the geekiest stuff is often home-build... have about contracting out to build something? I've always wanted to make one of these.... VP's are good at messing up computers so why not make it easy and geeky too!
Alternately, you can always shop at thinkgeek or compgeeks
Of course, much of my geeky pipedreams have involved cool places to put a flat panel display. How about something rigged up with a USB-flat-panel that looks like a desktop picture (but can change, or is animated). I know I've seen support for usb-flat-panel in my recent kernel version, so I'd assume the hardware is out there. Better yet, if you could fit it into a real picture frame so that it looks realistic, and enable it as default output for video-conferencing software: functional+geeky.
And of course, if you wanted to go outside the office (I doubt this would fly in most companies), replacing the ol' car stereo with a custom-wired miniPC (don't forget voltage-backing capacitors or a failsafe for when spikes/ignition), and perhaps an LCD that pops out of the glove?
Wireless is always cool. Go with the picture frame, but set it up wireless somehow so that it's as hard-to-figure as possible. You might even be able to do something with an old ebay laptop and a little wiring of the video connector through the desk. Anyhoo, just suggestions, and personal preference, but I'm sure there are lots of cool things one could do with miniturized PC components and a little time, and the custom-job is often much more unique/cool/geeky than stuff you find in even semi-geeky retail stores.
How about a gas-powered razor? It would have a weed-eater motor on it. You'd have to pull the rope a few times to get it started.
http://www.zorb.com/
they don't sell them, only to franchises, but everyone can be pursauded with cash, how much you got?
Runnin' On Empty
10. Colossus: The Forbin Project.
9. The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter. It is still not yet a submarine.
8. "Green Laser Pointer at Think Geek.com"
7. Hey McFly! How much would you sell that Delorean for?
6. Knight Industries 2000
5. Friggin' sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads.
4. That Saturn 5 lying on its side at that space museum. Time for destination moon!
3. "The Jupiter 2". Forget a trek ship: this thing once passed through a galaxy in one night.
2. The Atari 1450XLD. I'm still waiting for one after all these years. If Alan Alda still has his, I bet he won't let it go for cheap.
1. SCO. What geek would not love to buy this company and play with it fo a while? Muhahahaha.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
google it...
Trust me, you don't want to pay for 'em.
Grrrr!
Just when you make it idiotproof, some idiot builds a better idiot.
The Technology Associates, Inc. Eternalight EliteMax has got to be the ultimate geek flashlight. Superbright white LED's, microprocessor control, and a miniature switching power supply.
You just wish your ID was as low as mine! I used to be proud to have such a low id, but not so much now. Slashdot most
Real Dolls
I mean, we ARE talking about expensive, geek toys.
Ed Wedig
Graphic design services
docbrown.net
I have a Hitachi G1000.. and I think it's pretty geeky? :) Nothing like IRCing from the shitter anywhere you go!
I have one at work. Check out Z Corp. Very geeky and _EXTREMELY_ expensive. In many places this costs the same as a house.
Sony Ericsson P810/P900:
Club Sony Ericsson
XDA II:
infosync.nl
Digital Video Cameras:
Sony DCR-IP1 Micro MV
DCR-IP1
Samsung Digital Gadget ITCAM9 / ITCAM7
ITCAM9
I sig, therefore I was.
is also a CIO.
Feel free to get me one too. The Learjet 60 perhaps?
the hush mini-itx rates high on geek factor in my book.
It's currently out of stock, but I'd love to have one of these!!
This space for rent, inquire within.
From their product catalog:
"The Bioweapons division of the Weyland-Yutani corporation is proud to release its new Predalien-model drone! This beautiful marvel of roving mayhem is capable of a forty foot vertical or horizontal pounce, can head-bite your enemies from up to several feet away, can sneak up on competing executives along ceilings, walls, and through air ducts, and is armed with a six-foot barbed tail, nine inch claws, four inch fangs, and a sixteen inch extensible subjaw with three inch fangs! Optional Architect remote control not included. Satisfaction guaranteed!"
BUT, of course, you should read the disclaimer (it's in very tiny print at the back of the catalog):
"Weyland-Yutani corporation makes all AlienTech(tm) available on an As-Is basis, with no warranty whatsoever. Additionally, customer agrees to fully indemnify Weyland-Yutani corporation from any and all legal repurcussions that may result from customer's use of AlienTech(tm) products, including (but not limited to) impregnation by larval AlienTech, deaths of coworkers, family, pets, entire community, or detonation of spacecraft or Atmospheric Processor Units. Use AlienTech wisely."
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
If ya like em, send em a stripper with strategically placed /.'s and a redhat. If ya don't then get one of the unix administrators to dress up as a penguin. If you really don't like em, get em windows that break when you try to install them.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
Including headphones...
World's best portable headphones: Etymotic ER-4S, $270
World's best headphones, period: Sennheiser HE90, $7500
Get the former from www.toddthevinyljunkie.com and the latter direct from Sennheiser. Note the former needs a good portable amplifier ( www.jmtaudio.com ) and the latter a good electrostatic headphone amplifier (send an email to ddmitriev at uwaterloo dot ca , he builds the Gilmore Hybrid, which happens to be the world's best electrostatic headphone amp)
This
ACS parallel port stepper motor controller lately. Sure you can build your
own controller but this way you don't risk frying a parallel port (and it's only
20 bucks) It's really easy to program it in basic, and i've been using the
C examples to get an idea on how C works (My brain is bastardized by atari
basic)
I was also going to suggest some lego's or erector sets as a platform for the
stepper motors, but then I came across this link
to a company called 80/20 that makes Industrial Erector Sets.
So for $20, a few broken floppy drives (for stepper motors), an Erector set
and an old computer, you can give this guy the building blocks he needs to build
his own robots. Right now mine runs from an old Pentium 133 laptop in dos.
It may not be cutting edge but controlling real world objects by programming
your computer is a great way to get someone's wheels spinning. If you really want this thing expensive, get the guy the "Industrial Erector Set" peices and the latest greatest Athlon PC.
almost forgot the most expensive geek toy of all.
0. Melinda Gates
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If your work has a company police of no nudity, please don't visit this link.
Something neat but completely useless, huh?... how about this?
Oh wait... you wanted hi-tech...
http://www.gizmodo.com/
...ever. You'll have to endure some flash, but it's well worth it. The Phillips iPronto is more than just a remote control, it's a giant penis extension too. Think tablet PC dedicated to controlling everything and anything that is half willing. I have one of the original Pronto's and it reduced fifteen remote controls to one; easily one of the best purchases I've ever made. Here's a techtv review. And if you lick it, you can taste your own laziness reflected back at you.
I'm tired of bombing the universe
I can't wait to get one of these... once I pay off my credit card that is.
:-) What's that line from 5th Element? Zorg: "Look at these little things, so happy, so productive."
The new aibo can direct itself back to a recharge port. I'm really looking forward to when my Roomba Vac can drive around cleaning my whole third floor apartment and then go back and recharge and just be cleaning non-stop. That would be sweet. Plus I think it would keep me company.
Moderation: +1 pwnage
how about a thumb up your ass? it's cheap and you might enjoy it throughly.
Personally, I think Tivo is a necessity and not a toy, but the addition of a DVD-R to the mix and the ability to burn a show to DVD effortlessly makes it cool.
Yes, you've been able to do this for some time in a garden variety of ways (extract to PC, analog copy to standalone burner), but all-in-one makes it pretty damn cool.
Pioneer's site isn't carrying this yet, but there was a full page ad in the USA Today ("tomorrow the world") for this. Rumor has it its not as good as the Panasonic DMR-E80H since it doesn't allow for any editing, but there's been a dearth of solid info about it thusfar.
Even without the editing ability of the Panasonic, combining DVD writing with the great Tivo UI would be super cool.
It'd be on my Christmas wishlist, but the wife just recently quit mumbling about the cost of the S2 and lifetime sub, so I think I'll just ask for the Panasonic instead.
Here's a neat toy, not exactly new, but certanly expensive and cool. The Terapin Mine is billed as a "digital camera companion", but it does a whole lot more. 10 GB of storage accessable via USB or ethernet. Mp3 playback and recording (via microphone!). Email device. Digital camera uploading (of course) and display via NTSC video out. PCMCIA card slot. Runs embedded Linux (for the added geek factor, as if it needed any). Maybe you could hack it to use a PCMCIA wifi card, although I have no evidence to support that. Beats the pants off an iPod any day, in my book. ThinkGeek sells 'em, but you might be able to find one cheaper elsewhere.
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
...and see what he comes up with.
Me, I'd say use the money to buy as many old Macs as he can, run Linux on them and create his own VIP Beowulf cluster. Er...wait - VIP? Nevermind.
www.brownsauce.org
Okay, I Googled for Bluetooth Vibrator and surprisingly came up with quite the list.
-=- Many seek good nights and lose good days.
Well, if he's single, get him a motorized RealDoll.
Portable if you own a large truck, but recomended for stationary use, I;d love to see if few more Band Orgrans around. Those will a smaller budget may have to "settle" with making their own, while those with a larger budget can get a restored antique to impress their friends.
Anyway you look at it, a beatiful and useless toy that every geek would love the opportunity to play with.
Playboy has a list of these sometimes. I can't really comment on it though, I still haven't made it past the centerfold.
If you're going to go all out, why not bankrupt your employer at the same time?!
Get this "VIP" a Gulfstream G5. Look, the thing only costs $30-40 million. And I'm sure they'd throw in EVERY gadget on here for free.
Or, you can just lease one for the VIP for the paltry sum of a mere $243,864 a month.
Gulfstream G5
-SD
One of these [rctoys.com] would make any geek exec happy. It's nifty, AND it lets you spy on your employees!
Everyone needs a ruggedized 6 million candlepower flashlight with an adjustable 40 degree wide to 2 degree spot beam ... right? I would certainly accept one as a gift. The only catch is it's just a bit pricey.
The report should recommend magic cost cutting swords.
Of course.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
The TailGator is a gaspowered blender.
No one really needs one of these, but they are pretty cool.
http://www.totallygross.com/
http://www.redcross.com
A donation in his name.
Since you have one do you mind tell me if the little cable attached to the watch is removable, and if yes where to keep it short of having it loose in a pocket. I looked at the pictures but it is not obvious.
Thanks
Help fight continental drift.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Canon/canon_ eos1ds.asp
Toss in a load of nice prime L-series lenses and you've got more money spent than a brand new H2!
Apple ipods are awesome. It may not be cutting edge any more but it is an expensive gadget. And actually useful unlike most.
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." -Voltaire
Powerskips - supercharged pogo-stilts
BMW M5 with iDrive
how about a phatbox car mp3 player. it plugs into your stock stereo and emulates a cd changer with voice feedback. linux software is here. up to 60 gigs.
or a kenwood music keg.
or a vw/audi phatbox.
can you tell i love this product? works with the audio controls on my steering wheel. no need to look down at an ipod screen while speeding.
Sounds like your co-worker might an a hidden motive to have you spend "company" time looking at expensive geek toys. Were I dealing with someone that didn't trust very well, I'd watch my back.
Who's to say your co-worker doesn't run to the very same VP and rat you out. When the boss comes back to check it out and asks you about the "toys" you sink yourself when you answer him thinking he just wants more information.
Having worked at a company fill of back-stabbing goons, tends to put me on a very careful stance.
-Goran
Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
Casio Pathfinder watch. I believe it's discontinued -- couldn't find it on the Casio site -- but can still be found for well under the $500 list price. Can hook up to a machine with a serial port but they include only Windows drivers :-(
zodiac
It's a PalmOS device that's been optimized for playing games. Since it is a Palm device, you can play Palm games on it, and they are also coming out with Zodiac optimized games. Oh, and it has all those PDA features he could want, too.
You could also get him a Samsung Yopy:
Yopy
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
It's friday, you ain't got no job, you ain't got shit to do, I'm going to get you high today.
Poetictech has some nice looking desks...they start at about $1500 for the base model, and run up to about $4500 for the high-end models with air-conditioning and indirect lighting sources. Strap on a 20" flat panel LCD's and you've got the perfect workstation for your VIP...who will set the resolution at 800x600.
"Built-in 8MB flash memory can hold up to or up to 400 digital still images"
That's 400 pics at 20K each....barely large enough for buttons in web graphics.
In terms of megapixels, that's 0.2 megapixels. In an age where you can get 1 mp cameras for 20 bucks, this is not pushing the envelope for sure.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"When their power lights signal you, just plug them into any outlet to juice them up to full speed."
They have GOT to be joking. Couldn't the old H.E.R.O. robots find their own charger?
For $400,000 I don't just want these guys charging themselves, I want them making sure the power bill is paid on time!
how about a cigarette lighter for your PC?
Left 4 Dead Gaming Group - http://www.l4dgg.com
Hammacher Schlemmer has the most overpcied, cool, and fun stuff around. it's borderline insanity.... but very cool.
Just buy a SCO linux license for him! ;-)
Yeah, I'm city livin' chillin' but I'm country at heart...
The new 7 series Beemer.... It's got Bluetooth!
Take a look at Mind Machines... Basically they are a combination of sound and light to help individualy (mostly rich individuals) relax... They cost a bit, but supposedly they work (never tried myself).
http://www.iproducts.ws/
How about an entire Graphics processing farm from Liebermann, Inc. http://www.go-l.com I could certainly spend a couple million there in any given day. He could use it to make his office look like a tropical jungle with enough of those 30" plasma displays.
I'd have to go with the Garmin ique3600.
A palm PDA, plus NAV with GPS all built into a normal PDA sized box. It even talks to you and tells you to turn around when you've gone the wrong way. About 475$.
ique 3600
Analog watches rule. I swore off digital watches after years of wearing them because the digital ones all seem to come with useless function buttons that get accidentally bumped all the time so the watch never shows the time when you look at it.
Instead, you look at the watch and find that you are 17 minutes into a stopwatch process, or you see the time in Singapore, or you get numbers blinking meaning your are in the middle of the process of setting Alarm #2. Anything but the actual time, unless you start hitting the buttons to get it to reset itself.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Neuros Audio Computer Bundle
Not bad for $229.
128MB backpack (good for a run) and 20GB backpack (good for taking your CD collection on the road).
Built in FM radio (records directly to MP3, nice for catching up on Talk of the Nation Science Friday or capture "thumbprint" of now playing tune for later automated identification). Rumored upcoming TiVo-like functionality for the radio.
Built in FM transmitter so you can use the player in your car without requiring a slew of cables. (Autoseeks to find an un(der)-used FM frequency or dial a frequency yourself).
Builtin microphone (record those class lectures to MP3).
First player I know of to support Ogg Vorbis NOW (via beta firmware download). Also supports MP3, WMA and WAV.
Active developer community.
Can't imagine living without mine.
Just wish it had 1) USB 2.0 or Firewire and 2) a remote control. With those it would be perfect. (New backpack in development will support USB 2.0)
Just sell him all your crap computer equipment you haven't done anything with in years. Throw it all in a big box and tell him it's a do it yourself robot or something. Don't forget to include unreadable instructions in korean, to finish of the authentic feel.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
This is all that I want http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christm asbook2003/F4O2049.htm
...this baby or this one, coupled with some of this along with some free time...?
Hate me!
http://www.sybian.com/venusindex.htm
For the man who has everything, something to haul all his shit around in.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
A ride on the SpaceShipOne!
Penicillin
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
UX50 CLIE(TM) Handheld (PEG-UX50) No question.
Ross Winn "not just another ugly face..."
Wired Review on toilet from Toto
Toto USA
Towards the Singularity.
What decent digital watch is free of the useless buttons that get bumped?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"Oh, the pain. The pain."
My ultimate geek gadget would be: a geek.
Then I can ask the geek to do things like "round up all of the coolest geek gadgets and let me know what they are". I will force my pet geek to address me as a "VIP" and interface with slashdot when they can't ask my questions (which makes me feel like I own many more geeks by proxy).
I will keep my geek in a cubicle next to my aquarium full of scuba-divers.
I hate it when I ask someone the time and they tell me "it is 16.53 and 47 seconds". "Nearly five to five" is good enough for most purposes.
A digital stopwatch is nice.
each post with cool link = less $$ in bank account.
Sigh, will need much overtime to make it through my new wishlist..
I'm a geeky VIP and I'd much rather someone buy me this geek toy instead of a Segway.
Most of the /.'rs have the geekiness factor down, but what about expensive? Try out some gear from Bang & Olufson a nice "Lifestyle" stereophonic company. They have some pretty sweet stuff thats horribly expensive. Just check out their MP3 player! (Their headphones actually sound quite awesome)
Actually, I was looking at the always popular rubik cube and it's weird variants, just the day before yesterday.
They do not seen to qualify to the article though, as most are not that expensive.
I was looking for the 5x5x5 rubik when I jit the page, but the other toys seens attractive as well.
-><- no
How about this personal, ultralight, helicopter-type thingy?
Check out stuff related to this:
..if you speak japanese. ;)
The Sharp Zaurus C760, currently available in just a few places.
www.gotontheinter.net
Updated vaguely once a whenever, maybe once a whenever-and-a-half.
A googolplex is not "sometimes just called a google." Well, I guess it is, but only by mistake. A googolplex is 10^googol or a 1 followed by 10^100 0s. Note that the search engine is spelled google, and the number googol.
Sony PEG-UX50 Uber Clie. Bluetooth, WiFi, Camera, Browser, Mail, Games, Palm OS 5. I just ordered one of these today. Here's the kicker: It's for my wife! She seems to have more geek gadgets than me. On the other hand, she had *no problem* with me picking up my new BMW two week ago. ;-)
///d@
You're in your tiny little room watching tv _on your refrigerator_ because you don't have the wherewithal to have a separate device or separate rooms to put them in.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
Better yet - buy one for me.
92", 6400x1200 pixels, 13 ms response time.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
I found this very cool "toy" the other day ( http://shop.store.yahoo.com/airgundepot/eaa-drozd. html )
Not every day you run across a selective fire BB gun.
Imagine how "The Christmas Story" would have gone with this instead of the Red Rider BB gun.
Requirements:
- Cheap dvd/mp3/svcd player: $40
- 12v dc to 120v ac $40
- 24" color tv $120
Instructions:- get van
- shove dvd player under front passenger seat
- wire audio outputs into vehicle sound system
- mount tv between front seats (either facing the rear seats, or on its' back facing up so you can see it)
- connect dvd to tv
- connect tv and dvd to voltage inverter
Now for $200 you've got an mp3/svcd player that's great for camping, etc. Or burn cds of road maps and you've got a pretty cool navigation system (use the dvd's pan/zoom image feature to move around individual maps)You've also got a portable power source, and a tv to watch regular broadcasts while camping.
SliMP3. Very cool, and open source as well...
True they are a little 1990's but for my money (if I had that much) nothing says rich geek like a custom made Lumingals. (http://strattman.com/products/luminglas/index.htm l)
This thing is seriously sexy. Size matters.
One simple rule for its versus it's
The screen is small (2"), but ok for viewing Office Space for the 10th time while I'm commuting via train. Having all of your recent photos on board is nice too (who needs that plastic thing in your wallet?). And it does hold 500 CDs worth of music and supports mu3 playlists.
It's easily mountable to my Linux box and I believe it is less expensive that the iPod of the same hard drive size. No it doesn't look as cool as the iPod or weigh as little, but the rechargeable batteries do go about 7 hours. It's an alternative at least ...
http://www.nakamichi.com/
I have used Nakamichi devices before, and they are worth every penny, if you have pennys to toss across the ocean.
sin
Merf
I usually go to I4U.com for my gadget curiosity fix. Link here.
Ok, here's my favorite high-tech toy:
High Tech Desk
The highly styled Panoram PV230 DSK is the first visualization display aimed at the "professional consumer" market and provides 2.4 Megapixels of working real-estate featuring a fully articulated swing arm and Digital Direct DVI inputs. http://www.panoramtech.com/products/pv230.html ummmmmm drool drool drool
And they will cut your head off without thinking twice so beware.
Happy Hippo.
You mean like this one from Casio, or this unit from Timex (Warning: annoying flash)?
A DVD of Office Space
Chip H.
up my sleeves? nothing. i had to sell my watch to pay the rent. why dont you get him a map of the southeast asia so he can see where he outsourced all the jobs to, you insensative clod!
This startup company is about to release a PDA that also has allows you to play cool games, like Doom 2 or Duke Nukem. If you want something expensive, buy the version with 128 MB, that sells for $ 400.
http://www.ambientdevices.com
From their web site:
"Frosted glass orb glows a color to indicate your information.
"The Ambient Orb slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or kid is on instant messenger."
It's actually quite slick, and I bought one for myself. It currently tells me the outdoor temperature via warmer/colder colors. Looks great sitting on my desk.
$150.00.
-Ryan, with the unoriginal sig
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June 27 2003 @ 5:17pm
Mmm got a Go Big Scooter today. IT ROCKS. So fast.
http://www.gobigscooters.com. Rad. Expensive, but good.
Here is a cool telescope. You set it on the ground, GPS signals tell it where and when it is, and you type whatever you want to see into the handset. Then the telescope finds it for you.
Celestron (and others) make similar models, but I like Meade.
-aiabx
Just this guy, you know?
Tablet pc [motion m1300 is good www.motioncomputing.com ] GPS receiver for it, and one of the audio->FM converters so you can take your mp3's in the car and play them with it.
That's a "seven-person TRIcycle."
PS: It's really nice that's the only page that seems to be having issues today.
Mom says my
who wouldn't want a "Sonic Devastator" or a "Plasma Saber"? if you want expensive/useless/cool stuff, go look at Future Horizons
This new VersaLaser:
http://www.versalaser.com/english/index.html
This thing can cut:
Fabric & Leather
Paper & Cardboard
Plastic (sheet, film & molded)
Rubber (natural, synthetic & foam)
Wood & Hard Organics
And can mark:
Glass & Ceramic
Metal (coated & bare)
Stone (natural & synthetic)
You just program the cutting pattern into your computer and slip the material in. If they didn't cost $10,000 I would definitely buy one!
~Dan
http://www.pbase.com/efatapo
Surprised this hasn't been brought up - what about the new 2004 Toyota Prius? It's an expensive geek toy, but a geek toy none the less.
:-)
Keyless proximity entry and starting, bluetooth enabled for phones, voice command navigation and audio controls, highly efficent gas/electric hybrid drivetrain, more computers onboard than in most basements, what more could a geek ask for for under $26k?
Mine's coming next month
$ man woman *
-bash:
geeky --> /. science
Or how about a Space Adventure?
Maybe too late?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
http://www.voodoopc.com/systems/notebook.aspxa t $3100 17inch monster with a built in sub is pretty nice.
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What about a Slimp3? ( ).
It is beautiful, a bit expensive, the sound is very good, people are still amazed if I control the music via the WiFi connected iBook, and the server portion of it is open source.
So if you absolutely have to have your Caller ID flash on the Slimp3's display, you can do it. Or control other devices via the remote. Whatever.
Plus the guys who make it are very pleasant to deal with.
You might want to consider one of these retro Nixie tube clocks. They come with a technological twist: They use GPS to acquire the correct time. http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/clockpage.html
"I was recently asked by a coworker to come up with a list of expensive and cool gadgets for a VIP.
If the VIP's in management, how about, I dunno, a brain?
Or for that matter, a heart or some courage .
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Steve Jobs has one.
http://www.gulfstream.com/g550/
comes with DivX playback and ethernet!!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
There's a great geeky toy site at http://www.firebox.com it has retro games, gadgets, you name it.
But how about a high-priced call girl that would strap a web cam on the VIP and broadcast it (streaming of course) to the readers of /.?
That's gotta be pretty expensive...
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
I don't care how "not-new" it is, but if he doesn't already have a TiVo, he needs one. Or three. And so you you. And everyone you know.
Its a digital camera hidden in what looks like a cigarette lighter. Although its pictures are a low resolution, it does allow video and audio recordings. And the coolest part, it doesn't even need to be turned on to take a picture, you can just flip the lid and hit snap to quickly take a picture. More info here: http://www.jbcamera.com/en/index.htm
World's first and only palmtop solid-state broadcast-quality video camera with no SCMS, incoming @ US $600. Still no audio equivalent!
But this is my current target for a geek toy.
one of these monitors and a nice laptop for travel.
Pimp Monitor
The George Foreman iGrill: Available at ThinkGeek
Ok, yeah... that's badass.
I was recently asked by a coworker to come up with a list of expensive and cool gadgets for a VIP.
But seriously folks, isn't this what's wrong with the business world today?
"Hey let's get $ImportantPerson something he neither needs nor will use, so that we get brownie points, and we'll make the stockholders pay for it!
"Then maybe he won't realize we haven't been doing any more for the people who actually own the company -- the stockholders than his playful VIP ass!
"Mr. Importent will have useless his toy, we'll be off the hook, and somebody else will be laid off to temporarily drive up stock prices, and the stockholders will think everything's hunky-dory!
"Even better if we can find some way to charge the toy and our time getting it to a government contract!"
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=cyberdildonics
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Any sources in the UK for geek toys (e.g. a thinkgeek.co.uk type website) would be nice :)
A source for Megatokyo gear = even better.
What company do you work for?
I'd really like to sell my stock in it, if I have any, if this is what you're doing with *my* investment.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
What is this "AM" you refer to? Is that in contrast to "PM"? :)
xybernaut wearable computer
It seems that you can (still) get him his own aircraft carrier!
..and don't forget to book it as advertising costs :)
It's expensive, not practical, and requires little skill. Perfect.
http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer4.php
Computer assisted electric RC Helicopter with a camera.
How about your own gaming dice made from a meteorite? Click here ... or maybe the one made from a dinosaur fossil?
http://crystalcaste.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PR OD&Store_Code=CC&Product_Code=02153T&Category_Code =XS
If I only had the cash...
This is the shop you always wished you could visit as a kid - it's full of telescopes, microscopes, globes, sextants, apothecary bottles - the only thing missing is a stuffed crocodile hanging from the ceiling. They provided some of the props for Prof. Dumbledore's study in the latest Harry Potter film, and I personally believe that you can't get geekier than
A 19th century Zograscope, on an attractively turned mahogany column. We are tempted to say that the device was invented by King Zog of Albania in 1928, but it wasn't: it was first produced in 18th century France as an optical aid for viewing prints of landscapes. Overall height 60cm, nearly 24".
I mean, who wouldn't want a zograscope ? And only GBP950.00 !
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
Look, just cut to the chase and give the VIP a blowjob. That's symbolically what you'd be doing with an expensive, favor-currying technogift for someone who already makes more money than you, anyway.
hmmm... the most expensive geek toy (and the rarest even so you can be that 1337 geek) is.... a girlfriend!!!!!
At the shows I've been too, the item to have was a light up pen (the ones with the LED's in the clear plastic.
They're probably cheap, but they look really cool, and most of your coworkers just want to grab them (I had mine stolen twice as a gag).
http://www.audiocubes.com for cool audio tech. http://www.audiocubes2.com for the audiophiles out there. both sites rock.
Use Minidisc? Join the Minidisc.org forums.
Preview pages in a text browser. Don't leave your job security in the hands of others.
PLEASE don't give that site your business. They need to wither away to the point where they can fire their marketing department. Then I don't mind if they do well... assuming their prices are brought down out of the stratosphere first...
The Ambient Orb slowly transitions between thousands of colors to show changes in the weather, the health of your stock portfolio, or if your boss or kid is on instant messenger. http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/orborder.htm l
Stay away. Use them at most as a catalog to find interesting things, and then immediately scrub your mind to remove the experience of seeing all that trendy geek trash-jargon all over your screen (hella kewl? NO THANKS).
Look for the items elsewhere if you actually want to buy something you saw -- save 33% or more and be happy.
The ultimate geek toy has to be Hollywood :). Go to http://www.go-l.com and click on the link for the 17" laptop. More direct link here. All I can say is - Bow Down!!!
:))? Need to start saving now, or find one of my minions to buy it for me as a gift. :)
Specs -
- 17" WXGA 1440-by-900 pixels, high contrast, wide-angle-view, fast video response, Ultra-Speed(TM) Widescreen Display
- 3.20GHz & up Intel(R) Pentium 4 HyperThreading 2MB L3 Cache Extreme Edition CPU
- 512K L2 Cache
- Support for next-generation Intel Pentium 5/Prescott Processor*
- 800MHz System Bus
- Enhanced CacheFlow(TM) Technology
- SuperBIOS(TM) IBPT Technology
- Up to 2GB of 433MHz Dual-Channel DDR Memory
- Ultra ATA-133 Connectivity
- Up to 80GB of Colossal Storage Capacity using ultra-high performance 7200rpm HD
- ATI Radeon(TM) 9600 PRO AGP 128MB DDR Memory Professional Graphics with dual monitor output and Video-Out.
- Choice of optical drive: CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, COMBO (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), or high-speed 2x DVD-Burner (DVD-R/-RW)
- Integrated CCD Video camera with full-motion video at 30 frames per second in 24-bit color.
- IEEE 1394 FireWire & USB 2 connectivity
Can anyone beat this (or the price for that matter
Suhit
usually an exec would already have his phone, but if a cell phone is what you want this phone. it's 650$ (or 1150$ for the phone with development kit, which every exec would want on their shelf) with camera, bluetooth, 150mhz processor, 208x320 touchscreen, handwriting recognition, up to 256mb memory stick duo. it's yummy. i'm no exec but i went poor getting this thing ;]
well it doesn't really qualify as too expensive since i got my Sony Ericsson t610 with t-mobile service for $150 with $100 rebate for a 1 year service agreement.
I highly recomment getting the t-zones Pro feature which gives you unlimited usage of their GPRS online services: you can take pictures, record sounds, send e-mail messages from your phone with pics, music, recordings and text all freakin' day long and it doesn't cost you an additional buck and it doesn't eat at your minutes. it's $10/month for that feature.
The Sony Ericsson t610 is a bluetooth-enabled phone. I've used it to sync my Mac OS X address book and iCal info via iSync. No additional software required. U just stick your phone anywhere near your mac with a bluetooth dongle (or one of the new powerbooks with built-in antenna), the two devices recognize eachother, say "wassup", and OS X automagically walks you thru the rest. On top of sync'ing stuff via Apple iSync, you can also exchange files back and forth between phone and mac laptop.
OH, and there are quite a few utilities that are coming out to allow you to control your mac from a bluetooth phone such as the t610: check out Romeo. It's pretty bad-ass. A co-worker of mine has been controlling his iTunes from his phone with a proggie like that.
Another cool thing with the t610/t-mobile service, is that it's all GPRS stuff. The t610 comes with the built-in ability to act as your laptop's modem: OS X just automagically configured itself when it became aware of the bluetooth phone ... i have yet to try it, and call t-mobile to ask'em if this type of usage eats at my minutes or if it's included with the tzones-pro service as pure TCP/IP stuff. stay tuned.
Which brings me to my next point: My current laptop is a 2001 original 400Mhz Titanium Powerbook. it's been over 2 years and it's still kicking butt and i love it, and boy have been pushing this puppy and been making the most of its 1Gig of RAM, especially when i have X11/Gnome/Gimp running on top of all my regular OS X Apps, 10 terminal windows, while constantly building and running multiple local instances of Java J2EE applications. I could however use more CPU power, say 1.25Ghz, and a factory-installed 5400rpm 80Gig hard drive (vs my current 10Gig), a backlit keyboard, a built-in bluetooth antenna (so i don't need to plug a USB dongle), Gigabit ethernet. ...
So, you want a cool, expensive gadget? How about A 15" Apple Aluminum Powerbook. If everything goes well, my work migh
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Given a near-unlimited budget, what G5 would be complete without an iPod?
Holy crap, its Friday again. I really should look up more often.
my site has a pretty good collection of gadgets. http://www.flashenabled.com/ arcos video player, roomba robot, panasonic ewear, tablet pc, nokia 3650, er1 robot kit, aibo, media center (2004 version), segway ht (with new software), pocket pc 2003 devices, sony ericsson p800...and the list goes on....
Actually the Surefire L4 is a better LED light.
And its more expensive and uses more expensive batteries. And you can drive over it with a Hummer (so I've heard).
If you want a REALLY bright flashlight google for the X990, It's almost as bright as the X-file lights and its only US$549.
...is there anything else? Maybe $5 is not expensive enough. They could probably setup a special $5000.00 version just for this occasion. insert sig here
Just buy them an SCO license, afterall if they're geeky they're already using the stolen code, errr, I mean comments!
Dear god! I hope that second picture was staged and those things dont actually have enough strength to climb up into a seat by themselves...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
They always seem to have something particularly geeky and they are always expensive.
How about:
IIRC they had a real submarine in their Christmas catalog one year.
make sure to get him one of these
Life is offtopic.
personally the ultimate gadget would/could only be Hondas' ASIMO or a smarter non-existant version of.
www.smallrc.com
I've got a Fingerworks TouchStream LP for about a month now. Best $300 I ever blew ! Fingerworks
The learning curve is step, but geez, once you get going you feel like a mix of a jedi knight and tom cruise in Minority Report!
Flying lessons or...
a plane
It doesn't get any better than this!
...are for housewives and homos. Real Men(tm) fly low-wing single-engine general aviation airplanes. In a low-wing, you can see where you're going when you make turns. In a high-wing, all you see is the underside of your own wing when you make turns.
I respectfully submit the Nikon D2H dSLR. This thing is a beast - a pro level digicam, with a built-in WiFi and FTP - as you shoot the stills it FTP's them back to base via WiFi.
Now, someone reaffirm my faith in the OSS community by writing a webDAV implementation for this beast - FTP is so yesterday.
ACey
FYI, it's GoogOL not googLE, and it does not equal a googolplex, either. A googolplex is 10 to the power of googol, or a 1 followed by 10 to the 100 zeroes.
And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
The Nokia 3650 is a very cool, fun phone. Despite the fact that it only has 4 MB of onboard memory, the built-in camera/video camcorder is very fun to play with. It also comes with a 16 MB MMC and will support much more. Plus it has bluetooth, irda, and high speed internet access. So, if he wants to change cellphones, this is a fun one.
You can buy them in Japan for $3000. They're expensive and NO ONE on the block will have one. Heck most people have'nt even heard of them!
Check them out I've seen them in action in Japan and they were pretty cool.
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Of course it costs nearly as much as a cheap laptop, but you can't beat the functionality for its size!
Also, a great site to check regularly is I4U. This site is updated on a daily basis with the greatest drool-inducing toys you've ever seen!
This is a 'keyboard' projected on to a table top. Touch type into empty space...
Or how about an antique slide rule?
You bleeding edge browser users probably can figure out another way.
To be geeky and exclusive does not imply Hi Tech...
E.G., I know a VP that has a Webber 40 DCOE Carburetor on his desk and uses it as a paper weight...
What could possibly be geekier or more exclusive than that???
Several of the camera phones I've seen recently had 352x288 pixel CCD chips - the early pen cameras had that, though most are at least 640x480 and are starting to be higher than that.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
How 'bout one of these?
The ones in the pictures are from an older design, but the functionality is still very similar. Should be available to the public in a few months.
Future applications: being a remote control for my laptop (playing MP3s, or controlling presentations).
Software used: Bluez, Multisync, Bluetooth Transfer Manager, K68 and (on the phone) KaBlog.
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Yeah, they're cheaper than Spamazon, and usually cheaper than buying it at the local Costco Warehouse. But they have stuff nobody ELSE seems to have, and at a fair price. Foreign. Genre. Anime. They have it. My kids just discovered Miyazaki. Got 'em all from there. About the only thing they don't handle is PRON. But there's enough of that, free, on the Net. . .
No, I don't work for them, not even sure where they are in realspace. But I buy 60-80 bucks worth of stuff from them every month, because THEY have it. . .
...there's a self-tuning guitar retrofit that is very cool. Instantaniously change tunings; you don't have to stop playing. Just go right into an open G from DADGAD. I was very impressed with who's already got one (or two/three/four like Jimmy Page).
Your friend would be in a very special class if he aquired one of these. The page is at:
http://www.selftuning.com
-DeathoP
A woman!
;-)
What else?
Chaeron Corporation
Monitor resolution of 6400x1200 sound good?
mahlen
Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring.
Like this
...there's a self-tuning guitar retrofit that is very cool. Instantaniously change tunings; you don't have to stop playing. Just go right into an open G from DADGAD.
The tuning is not computerized/synthetic, but an accurate mechanical system. I was very impressed with who's already got one (or two/three/four like Jimmy Page).
Your friend would be in a very special class if he aquired one of these. This product deserves it's own slashdot article, but I'm too lazy to write one. I thought the "iGuitar" article a few months back was this invention, but this blows the iGuitar out of the water IMHO.
The page is at:
www.selftuning.com
(dang. No linkage. How do you do that? "URL" doesn't work).
-DeathoP
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/94q4/nicegift.ht ml ...
So to make it up to Helen, I said I'd buy her a gift.
"Any thing at all, my love," I said, overcome with remorse.
"Oh, I don't know," replied Helen,"You really shouldn't do this you know. But, if you are, just get me something really expensive, that I don't need."
The following day I booked her in for chemotherapy.
http://www.archos.com/products/av300_series.html
attention getting, practical, pretty cool
decent sized handheld MPEG-4 video playback and recording
mp3 playback and record
handles photos, data files, fm radio
has memory card reader, remote, tv out
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if he really wants to impress people, pull some strings with honda for an ASIMO (yes I know there is only one of them around)
Hands down, IMHBO, the coolest geek setup ever:
:) )
1) Buy him/her a Series1 TiVo (much easier to hack, or if you know their up-to-speed, then you can get him/her Series2 40 or 60 hour model if you can find one, rather than the 80).
2) Hacking TiVo: The Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit with CD-ROM, by Jeff Keegan.
3) A #10 Torx screwdriver.
You can let him/her go buy their own additional hard drive, though if you decide you've gotta buy that too get 120 gig or 160 gig IDE drive (doesn't have to be faster than 5400 rpm).
(By the way, the B in IMHBO stands for biased.
..Jeff Keegan
seven syllables explain TiVo: kee gan dot org slash ti vo
A simple bit of fun at http://www.villainsupply.com/
Pros: Amazing screen, nice browser, great email app, AIM
Cons: locked down thin client, no javascript, no local storage, no mp3 playback
The device has real limitations but as an portable on the go all-in-one phone/pda monster nothing comes close. Makes public transportation bearable. Thats a minor miracle in itself.
Also, the new OS (coming this month) will have an ssh client just for us geeks.
Hands down the coolest mega-tech-toy you can buy these days has got to be Zack Simpson's "Shadow Garden". Stand between a video projector and any screen, cast your shadow and watch: Butterflies land on your shadow; Catch and pour sand with your shadow; It is awesome (and pricey)
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Anything on this page ought to go down well... NEC showcase
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Never eat at a place called Moms
And never sleep with a woman whose problems are worse than your own.
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...point your thumb the other way. Upwards. Yeah, that's right.
The Best Geek toy would have to be a Geek female... Probably a girl who doesn't wear fashionable clothes or make-up but has a fit body and face to worship and knows how use vi. /fantasy
How about shutting the fuck up, fag boy?
Damn, I'm late to the party, but TheGadgetBox.com has lots of cool stuff listed, both cheap and expensive. Yes, it's my site...
Get him a nice ultra-expensive chair and sit in it when he's OOO.
I know you were joking, but I want my Karma, so I'm going to reiterate your post in a serious tone.
but,
"The most advanced adult-size interactive remote-controlled robots out there."
if it needs to be controlled remotly, it's not a robot.
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While not terribly expensive, I think this is going to be a cool product. I bet in the next few months everone will be offering wifi webcams. Linksys WVC11B
turn in your expense report.
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