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Tech Gifts for the Holidays

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tis-the-season-to-blah-blah-blah dept.

MrCopilot pointed out that every year there are a slew of gadgets geeks desire for Christmas, and approximately 7 million web pages dedicated to compiling lists of them. So why shouldn't we join in the fun. Here are stories from Dallas News, CBS News, Seattle Times, E Media Wire, Detroit News and MSNBC. So lets take a crack at your own list. There's still another day or two where things could conceivably be shipped on time for the holidays. I highly recommend Rock Band, although my aching hands might disagree.

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  1. Some of us are celebrating festivus by VMaN · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... you insensitive clod :)

    1. Re:Some of us are celebrating festivus by vil3nr0b · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's right and those of us celebrating festivus want that fucking laser from Boeing.

    2. Re:Some of us are celebrating festivus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Mark above as troll. It is a link to some info gathering farm: "gotcha: MyMiniCity is designed to capture information from all its visitors. thank you for your participation."

  2. Re:Hand-Brain coordination by still_sick · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanted to give him a gift which would allow him to use his hand-skills and yet challenge his brain.

    Buy him some Playboys, but cut the naughty bits out of all the pictures.

    --
    ...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
  3. Please don't turn /. into digg. by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I want for christmas:
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    What the hell is with these top-* lists?

    --
    It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  4. Pretty high prices by blueskatz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every year, I see these lists and I wonder, do most people really spend that much on a single Christmas gift? I'm sorry, but I'm not buying anyone a $2500 self-tuning electric guitar (CBS list), or a new $2299 Apple iMac (MSNBC list) or even a $400 iPhone this holiday season. I swear these lists must be created by retailers or someone trying to convince you that you have to go all out and spend all your savings every Christmas, just so your friends and family will love you.

    At least some of these lists are surprisingly decent - the Dallas and Detroit ones are actually pretty reasonable - accessories for your friends and family that already bought their gadgets. Now those make good gift items.

  5. Re:CHEAP ebook readers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    JuiceBox -- http://myvogonpoetry.com/wp/index.php?p=57

    http://www.teleread.org/blog/2005/06/02/the-12-e-book-reader/