Gifts: What to buy your nerd for the holiday

Buttons? We don't need no stinkin' buttons!

Last year we provided the most popular toys, but who cares about what kids want.Nothing quite says I love you like a box full of random nerdy items. That being said the following are a few new (or not very well known) items on the market that any nerd would love. Also most things on www.thinkgeek.com would be acceptable (especially zombie related)

The USB Missile Launcher:

USB awesomeness, Yup I use made up words.

These bad boys are something fun for the office nerd, unless you work for the government and will probably get arrested (in my case I’m probably just being heavily spied on for searching, missile and launcher). They generally cost between $30 and $40, but it looks like you can get a few for less on Amazon. Now these are not the greatest for distance, but you can easily stick a tack on the end and cause some minute damage (ok, so not really).

Humping USB dogs

I 'do' work.

This doesn’t need a lot of explanation. It’s a dog/usb memory stick that humps things. They are cheap, a funny stocking stuffer and useful for transferring your porn (what, you were going to use this for work?) files.

Woot T-shirts:

Perhaps this isn't the best example.

If you have not yet heard of Woot, it’s basically a site that has four deals that change often. The prices are pretty awesome for that random stuff they put on there and the shirts always rock (if you are a nerd, geek or gamer).

Beer:

Om nom nom?

Any real nerd, not those creepy World of Warcraft loving people, enjoys real beer. Get some Hobgoblin goodness or anything English for that matter.

Expensive stuff

Actifry:

Now you can get fat for less, but not really.

This my friends is the equivalent of an electric car over a regular gas one, if it were a deep fryer. It’s equivalent because it costs $300, uses only a teaspoon of oil to cook a batch of fries and are supposedly a healthier way to create them. The ActiFry is said to produce decent tasting products, but not comparable to the fatty goodness of the McNasty’s deep fryers.

The Nook:

What Kindle?

Barnes and Noble’s has created a color touch screen e-book reader to compete with Amazon’s Kindle 2. It costs $259, which is a pretty penny, but quite helpful for the reading addict.  If they already have an iPhone, just tell them to get the Kindle app (free) and get them a gift card.

Netbooks:

Netbooks

They are cheap and portable, helpful to those who just surf the web and do minor word processing. They also tend to be very tiny, so if they already have a Web enabled smartphone, don’t get this.

What not to buy:

Do not buy a video camera, digital camera or regular computer for your nerd. If they are in fact a nerd, often times they are going to be quite picky in the electronics the purchase. Netbooks don’t count in this because they are often cheap and nifty little gadgets. Also make sure your little nerdling is either a Mac or PC user, because there tends to be a tech war between the two products.

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