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The 2008 geek gadget gift guide
Whether waiting for the Thanksgiving meal or basking in its tryptophan-induced afterglow, the thoughts of your favorite geek (who could be you!) inevitably turn to gadgets, dancing like sugar plums in his or her thoughts. A real geek already has the obvious toys, such as Absolutely Mad: 50 Years of Mad Magazine on DVD, a Microsoft Xbox 360, an Apple MacBook Pro 2008 edition, a Garmin Nuvi 880, and one or more of the hot smartphones: the Apple iPhone 3G, Palm Treo Pro, RIM BlackBerry Storm, or T-Mobile G1.
What’s really special this year for the techie in your life? InfoWorld’s band of mad scientists — a motley crew of software, networking, datacenter, and hardware experts that habituates the InfoWorld Test Center — offers recommendations of what they lust after ? and know other true geeks do, too.
[ Looking for a high-tech collectible? Peruse David Margulius’ collectible tech gift guide. Curious about last year’s geek gift guide recommendations? Check them out! ]
In alphabetical order, here are our 10 top picks: * Apple Time Capsule * Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit * Cathode Corner Nixie Watch * EVGA GTX 200 Waterblock * Eye-Fi Explore * 4th Motion Gyroxus Full-Motion Game Chair * MvixUSA MvixBox * Sky Factory SkyV * SRS Labs iWow for iPod Adapter * Yoggie Gatekeeper Pico
And delve into our guide to collectible tech.
Okay, we know you really want a new mobile, too. Get the scoop on the InfoWorld Test Center’s top mobile picks.
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1. seeing the everyday. their handle line is “finding poetry in the prosaic” and it’s rather hard to describe this unusual so far wonderful publication. it’s deep down about connections and relationships–particularly family relationships–and it uses artwork, poetry and dozens of stories and familiar experiences to celebrate the handsome things in brio.i was sent a magazine twin and when i came to “father’s prayer” by jim kasen i got pretty choked up. i can’t reprint it here but to paraphrase the first human being story it tells down a adolescent man whose father had a premonition that he would any minute now pop off and asked his son to pray concerning him. though the man did soon die after that the experience had a touching purposefulness and leftist me with tears in my eyes.the munitions dump reminds me a little bit of some of the insulting accounts you muscle find in reader’s digest–or the saturday evening post. instead a modern version of a norman rockwell painting pull someone’s leg to language. many references to work and life lessons, family and parenthood it’s a unique voice amidst the likes of hot rod, sports illustrated and people.
2. plate-mark magazine. yes, as in the car-card presence. who knew they produced a journal full of recipes, seasonal tips, decorating and projects? i thought they were just about the cards but outwardly they’re branching out to give martha a burn looking for her take.the projects and recipes seemed more accessible to me than martha’s stuff (i’m sorry, she’s pretty amazing but i would be more amazed if she could publish a recipe that was actually easy to follow with normal, everyday ingredients and a way to make them concoct out the way they’re supposed to. i’m just saying . . . )homey and tasty, that’s how i’d describe it.
3. stay. this is probably my home remodeling side talking but i loved the last issue of this architecturally eager magazine.all about–you guessed it–homes, i suspect most issues are mostly about decorating styles, home ideas and trends in home construction but the issue i saw was specifically devoted to homes that melded with their environment and i loved it. with an wonderful variety of settings each to the heart, whether in a dessert or in a tree, blended perfectly with its surroundings in a way that would have done frank lloyd wright proud. to me the setting dictates the contrive of a building and a home being the most personal structure there is should follow its surroundings more than anything else.anyway, interesting magazine suited for those who like to urgency through neighborhoods at sundown just so you can ponder on how the homes look on the inside before people start to finish their curtains. whoops, i guess that sounds kind of weird doesn’t it?
