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How many times have you been to a large meeting and every person in the place is typing away at a laptop, tablet PC or handheld device to keep notes? I’m a software engineer so the meetings I have been too have been full of fairly technical people. However, this situation has never occurred to [...]

The Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition is the ultimate notebook for serious Warcraft players. With exclusives like next-gen SLI technology and the custom Warcraft case design, this M1730 has the power to play and the style to impress. Did you catch the post on the World of Warcraft Figure Prints yesterday? This complete [...]

With over eight million subscribers world wide, World of Warcraft is the largest MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) in history. Chances are very good that the geek in your life has another life in this world. Here is a gift idea that caught me entirely by surprise. Figure Prints can recreate your geek’s [...]

Geeks love games and this Geek Gift Idea will help improve their gaming experience. The Playseats Evolution Gaming Seat is a chair built to enhance racing game titles. The chair has a double-stitched vinyl cover available in black or white, reinforced steel tubular construction that adds stability and eliminates excess wobble, a non-flammable seat material, [...]

I obviously had to mention these sweet little beauties in a series of Geek Gift Ideas posts; the Star Wars Force FX Lightsabers. These are official reproductions of the lightsabers used in George Lucas’s Star Wars film series. Featuring realistic lighting and sound effects, these close combat weapons of the Jedi and Sith are absolutely [...]

One of the geek’s best friends (especially programmer/hacker geeks) is caffeine. That usually comes in the form of a beverage and is most likely called Java or Joe or coffee. Non-coffee drinking geeks sometimes also go for the sodas, but alas these do not have the same kick as coffee… at least in my humble [...]

Now this isn’t late breaking news but with the iPod Touch you can get all of the cool, ground-breaking new features of the iPhone without all of the fuss and trouble of it being an actual phone. It has the gorgeous 3.5 inch vibrant touchscreen that lets you control everything with the tips of your [...]

With the advent of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) manufacturers have been creating everything but the kitchen sink that has the capability of plugging into a USB port. When I saw this one though, I just had to include it in my Geek Gift Ideas series. Rechargeable batteries? Useful… cool. Rechargeable batteries that get their [...]

I can remember as a small boy going to an abandoned field with my dad and watching a bunch of old guys flying radio controlled airplanes. I was absolutely enthralled. There was a helicopter I can remember that was very interesting and even a plane that was made from an old push lawn mower! There [...]

I saw this and absolutely had to include it in my Geek Gift Ideas post series. This is the IDE Belt… that’s right! It’s a belt; you know the kind of thing that helps to hold up your britches. Only it is made of a silver IDE Ribbon Cable. Now, I know what you are [...]