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For Geeks on a Budget
Product: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Price: $29.99
Details: ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

From the store that has brought USB gifts to nerds everywhere, ThinkGeek has holiday shopping for your special geek (or geekess) well thought out. The WiFI detector t-shirt brings new pleasure to receiving the cliché Christmas clothes and has a practical use! As many of us geeks are wirelessly tethered to our internet, (the inability to Google can cause a mental breakdown), having to start up the laptop or other wireless device in search of a signal wastes precious moments that could be spent furthering our knowledge of quantum physics or meeting chicks. The WiFi signal bars of the live display on the front of the shirt, change with the surrounding signal strength. Never again will you be at a loss for the web when you need it most. Imagine all the ladies impressed by your resourcefulness as you effortless inform them of the current wireless signal strength.
How about that blinky nosed Rudolph sweater.


For the Hardware Geek
Product: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
Price: Price Compare
Details: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB Drive

I like storage, correction, I LOVE storage. You can never have enough hard drive space…ever. Being a digital packrat, I find it difficult to delete things. Even during the semi-annual reinstall, a copy of my documents, settings and installation partition gets saved in case I ever need that one file I always wish had been saved. Between backups, downloads, game installs and the plethora of other things that inevitably make their way into the recesses of my C drive, I tend to run out of space rather quickly and I am sure these sentiments are shared by many others. Thankfully hard drive manufacturers have come to the rescue. One Terabyte (1TB) drives, have become the new standard, and without a doubt the best $/GB deal around. While not the everyday price, these drives have been spotted on e-shelves with only double digit pricing as the holiday season approaches. The Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB hard drive in particular has proved to be an incredibly fast and rather quiet unit, with a very attractive price tag attached. This really is a gift that can’t go wrong, whether for the geek who is permanently attached to his keyboard or for the technical tinkerer, everybody needs more space.

For the Geek Who Has it All
Product: Toyota iReal Personal Transportation...Chair
Price: $4,000+
Details: Top Gear - Toyota Chair- Video

No matter the geek, chances are he (or she) doesn’t have one of these. The innovative minds at Toyota have developed the ultimate in comfort, style and technology. This is the creme de la creme, the cream of the crop, the top dog, this is the Toyota iReal. Not just an ordinary chair, the iReal is a concept battery powered personal transportation system, a.k.a, a really fast chair. The user controls the chair by joysticks at their fingertips, but this baby isn't just for fetching drinks from the fridge; the top speed of the chair is a blistering 30km/h - in performance mode of course. The iReal also is a plates a digital smorgasbord with a social networking features (in case your neighbours decide to get one as well), wireless connectivity and touch control computer. Now while the iReal is not scheduled to be debut publicly until 2010, those willing to spend should not be deterred. This toy with make Christmas one to remember, and it should help you one up the in-laws..