Matrix Group’s Gift List for the Techies In Your Life
by Joanna PinedaPosted on December 16, 2009
It’s the holiday season and if you’re looking for the perfect gift for the techie in your life, have no fear. I polled the Matrix Group staff and they came through with these terrific suggestions:
Mini USB Monitor – Need a little more real estate on your monitor? You’ll love these mini monitors.
Lego Death Star – If you have a little one who loves Legos and you love Star Wars, you’ll enjoy making the Death Star together.
Our Network Administrators say that NetBooks are super hot this season. NetBooks are a class of laptops that are super small, lightweight and inexpensive. You can get them from Dell, Acer, HP and Sony.
WikiReader – This little device puts the 3 million+ articles from Wikipedia in the palm of your hand, along with regular updates.
The Geek Handbook – This handy little reference is a great user guide and documentation for the geek in your life.
A Slashdot Cap – If you get the reference, you’ll love this cap. If you don’t, don’t worry about it.
HD Flipcams – It was bound to happen. Now you can take HD videos with a teeny device.
Portable Solar Charger – This universal charger will keep your portable electronics charged anywhere there’s sun. So you can go camping and still keep your phone and iPod fully charged. Sweet!
Simon Game – This is a through-hole soldering kit for the true geek in your life who needs a little soldering practice.
Dragon Age – This is the latest video game from Bioware and it is hot, hot, hot.
How about you? What are you giving the techie in your life? Got a good lead on a fab gift? Please share!
5 replies on “Matrix Group’s Gift List for the Techies In Your Life”
I’ll take the death star! I’m a HUGE lego fan, check out my lego site…
My Mom, who is super non-techie, has a netbook and she LOVES it. She’s a professor, and she uses it to run her slideshows for each lecture. It’s great that she doesn’t have to lug a huge laptop around just to hook up to a projector. It also has wireless, and she loves how little it is that she can be connected anywhere in the house, whereas with a laptop she feels the need to be near a desk or table.
One caveat – the screen is so short, that some software installers / websites have action buttons that fall BELOW the bottom of the screen, making the action item unclickable. Ooops!
Even the non-techies will love a USB Flash Drive. Prices are plummeting and you can’t beat the convenience. 4GB for $10 or even cheaper. Easy to carry documents around to meetings, for display on a conference room computer, good for getting photos at their original high resolution from a family gathering while still at the gathering, etc. Just a good piece of equipment to have on your keychain.
Even the non-techies will love a USB Flash Drive. Prices are plummeting and you can’t beat the convenience. 4GB for $10 or even cheaper. Easy to carry documents around to meetings, for display on a conference room computer, good for getting photos at their original high resolution from a family gathering while still at the gathering, etc. Just a good piece of equipment to have on your keychain.
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5 replies on “Matrix Group’s Gift List for the Techies In Your Life”
I’ll take the death star! I’m a HUGE lego fan, check out my lego site…
http://www.notinteresting.com/studio/lego/lego.htm
Have a great day!
Garry
My Mom, who is super non-techie, has a netbook and she LOVES it. She’s a professor, and she uses it to run her slideshows for each lecture. It’s great that she doesn’t have to lug a huge laptop around just to hook up to a projector. It also has wireless, and she loves how little it is that she can be connected anywhere in the house, whereas with a laptop she feels the need to be near a desk or table.
One caveat – the screen is so short, that some software installers / websites have action buttons that fall BELOW the bottom of the screen, making the action item unclickable. Ooops!
Even the non-techies will love a USB Flash Drive. Prices are plummeting and you can’t beat the convenience. 4GB for $10 or even cheaper. Easy to carry documents around to meetings, for display on a conference room computer, good for getting photos at their original high resolution from a family gathering while still at the gathering, etc. Just a good piece of equipment to have on your keychain.
Even the non-techies will love a USB Flash Drive. Prices are plummeting and you can’t beat the convenience. 4GB for $10 or even cheaper. Easy to carry documents around to meetings, for display on a conference room computer, good for getting photos at their original high resolution from a family gathering while still at the gathering, etc. Just a good piece of equipment to have on your keychain.
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