Christmas is just around the corner, and most of you should be at least halfway through your gift list. You've already finished your parents, your siblings, you have some friends left over but you know exactly what you're going to get them. Of course, there's always one person that seems impossible to shop for.
Your partner. If he or she is a big geek, a Christmas card and some money might not do it (although the money you give might certainly go to the new iPad 3 coming out next March.) So, what do you buy a geek for Christmas?
Back in the 80s, a new D&D campaign book might have done it, maybe even the Star Wars trilogy on VHS. In the 90s, perhaps those clunky cell phones or a box of empty floppy disks to put their stuff on. As time goes on, it gets harder and harder to shop for geeks because electronics get more and more expensive. Fun fact: In the 80s, 1GB of flash memory costed $1 million.
That doesn't mean there aren't things you can buy for a geek that will drive them crazy with uninhibited glee (which I expect to see when I give my own boyfriend his present). Here are just a list of things you can buy your geeky partner that they'll thank you for forever.
Game of Thrones: If your partner is anything like the rest of us geeks, they probably cuddle up (possibly with you) in front of the TV once a week to worship Game of Thrones. So do them a favour and buy them a season or two so they can worship almost every day.
Star Wars USB devices: Your geek probably has a lot cluttering his or her computer. At some stores (I found this at Chapters in Canada, but they probably have it elsewhere), you can find USB devices each representing a character from Star Wars. I found Chewbacca, Han Solo, Darth Vader, Yoda, and Storm Trooper USB devices. They're about $30 per USB for 8GB, which is a lot of space considering how much stuff you can store up in the cloud these days. Besides, the price is totally worth it for the geekery.
iTunes Gift Cards: Most of us listen to music, and some geeks really love their music (I have only 5 GB of music, as compared to the 200 GB I've seen on my friend's computer.) At a dollar a piece, music is pretty cheap these days, and you can buy up to $100 worth of gift cards for your geeky partner (or even a geeky friend, if he's still on your shopping list). Or, you can go as low as $5, for those people you're only shopping for to keep them happy, like your mother-in-law (or if you really want to get nasty, your own mother). Just be careful about this one, if you live in Canada, I've heard that iTunes gift cards don't work to buy games or apps. (Why us Canucks are always second-class consumors, I have no idea.)
Livescribe Echo Smartpen: This pen is exactly like a USB in the term that you have to connect it to a computer to access it, but other than that, it's totally different. You can get it in 4GB and 8GB models. This pen is the ultimate note taker and anyone in college or university will find it invaluable. All you really do it tap the area of information you want to keep, and it stores it on the pen for later reference. You can also store more than just notes - audio and apps can be stored on the pen as well (you can record audio on this thing.) I know I'm going to want this pen when I go to college, especially for those days when my boyfriend keeps me up all night and I go to class dead tired. All I have to do is start recording with it, and it'll take in everything the teacher is saying. It'll leave more time for me to sleep, and I can listen to it later to see what I missed. It costs about $140 for the 4GB model.
Those are just some of the things you could buy for total geek. There's a ton more you could google and buy, but they're certainly things I would buy myself.
So, what would you buy your partner? Comments below and encouraged.
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