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What Can You Do With $100?

Posted by Cliff on from the frugal-hacking dept.

An anonymous reader asks "I was recently gifted with $100 and thought, 'What's the coolest geektoy--new, used, cobbled together, hacked--that one hundred clams could buy?' Home automation? Older PDA streaming client? Bathtub ROV? Basic stamp robotic kit? Something fun, something useful, something educational, something that says 'Look what I put together for $100.' Lemme know!"

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  1. magazine article by zerkon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Computer Gaming World Magazine runs a segment every month on what to do with $100, and they're usually right on, grab an issue and see what they say.

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  2. Save It! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Avoid knee-jerk consumerism and put it in savings. You might need it someday.

  3. What about by Dancing+Primate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ten $10 bundles of toothbrush, socks, snacks, etc for homeless people?

  4. Take your significant other out... by jbarr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and have a good time. Good memories will last much longer than geek toys.

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  5. Re:Swiss Memory USB! by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you actually find the swiss army functions useful? I looked on thinkgeek for it, but there seems to be hardly any actual tools on it, just the bare bones essentials(btw, what kind of screwdrivers does it have?) Now compare it to a lot of the other non-usb knives, and it doesn't look all that great... Let me know what you think of it.

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  6. Drive to work by xrayspx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For 15 days.

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  7. Re:I'd suggest a dictionary by finkployd · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suggest you buy MarkusQ a dictionary, as he seems to think you have misused the work "gifted" when in fact, you have not.

  8. Re:A bunch of stuff! by Casca · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I second the magnet suggestion. I bought a selection of the 1" models, and they've been a blast, though you do have to be really careful with them. I took some to a day-long training class a while back, and it was a hoot. As they made their way around the table you would hear "CLICK...Ouch!" about every couple of minutes.

    Yes, I know, you're not supposed to let them click together, and you're not supposed to handle them with you bare hands. They will chip if you're not careful, and they'll make a pressure hole in clothing if you let them click through a polo shirt. The most fun is handing one to a friend, then tossing them the second one. Its almost as much fun as tossing a charged capacitor (oh how I miss high school science class)to someone not expecting it.

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  9. Re:Tools by BandwidthHog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why have midgets?

    Because the blonde's too tall to ride a llama through the bathroom door.

    Duh!

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