Sellsius Geek Gifts (Mostly) Under $50

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Have a geek on your holiday gift list?   Here are geek gifts, most under $50.

crabble

Crabble: A folding iPhone stand from Seskimo. With rubber grips, you can press buttons without having to use the other hand to steady the holder. It comes in black and translucent colors.

Cost: $5  World wide delivery in 1-5 days.

gorilla pod

Joby Gorillapod Flexible Camera Tripod: A great way your friend can get in the photo with you.

“Gorillapod uses its 30 adjustable joints to grip to trees, fences or posts–anything it can wrap its legs around–to provide a steady and secure platform for your digicam! No more hunting for flat surfaces at eye-level: just wrap or hang Gorillapod on any handy object.”

Cost: $40 X-tremeGeek.

led cap

LED Brand Scroll cap:    “Is your brand being left in the dark?”  Try this techie LED Scroll Hat featuring ” a personalized scrolling LED display on cap. Use the buttons on the back to enter your message up to 118 characters. Replaceable 3V button battery included.”

Cost: $25 at Computer gear.  ($40 for the t-shirt) .

Get a Wi-Fi detector shirt for $20  at ThinkGeek.

laptop skin

Customizable Laptop Skin:  Your friend can promote their brand offline as well as online, with this easy to apply vinyl laptop skin.  Easy to remove too.

Cost: $30 from Schtickers (that’s my Schticker in the pic)

laptop cool feet

Laptop Blue Lounge Cool Feet:  Set of 4 detachable rubber feet to elevate a laptop, to let air flow underneath to keep the computer (and the geek) cool.

Cost:   $11.95 from B&H

usb outlet

TruePower USB Outlet. An outlet that  charges geeky USB gadgets (like a darn Blackberry) when you’re away from your computer.

Cost: $10.  The device won’t be out until early in 2010, right now it’s still waiting on the final UL Approval.  You can pre-order one now.  Done.

90 second cooler

90 Second Cooler.  Most geeks have no patience, what with surfing the net, twitter, and all.  So, a quick fix cooler.  Add ice, turn the handle and 90 seconds later you sip while you surf.

Cost: $15 + $9 commission from Rinkya.

singing toilet paper

Singing Toilet Paper:  “Plays a medley of Christmas tunes, including Jingle Bells, Santa is Comin’ to Town, and We Wish you a Merry Christmas, as the paper pulls from the roll. Miniature device installs undetected, serenades the unsuspecting. Batteries included.”

Kinda goes with the 90 Second Cooler (for the gal geeks)

Cost: $5.98 from Taylor Gifts.

solar charger

Solar Powered Charger: Just unfold the blades. The sun soaking, eco-friendly Classic Hybrid Solar Battery Charger will keep your friend connected to their peeps.

“Holds a charge up to one year, so it’s ready anytime, day or night. Charge it from the sun, via USB port or from an optional wall charger.”

Cost: $79.95 with free ground shipping from Solio.

dog collar gps

GPS Dog Collar:   Your geek friend can geolocate their four footed best friend on their computer.

Cost: $129 from LoveMyPetsGPS (comes with a glow-in-the-dark collar with the GPS tracker.)

glow candles

LED Blow on-off Candles:  Made of wax, these LED powered lights flicker like a real flame. You can even blow them on and off.  Each candle has a switch to select either a cool blue flame, or a yellow flame.  Place these on a shelf or mantle and fool everyone. No danger of  open flames. And, they won’t drip wax all over your friend’s stuff.  Geek-Romantic.

Cost:   $12-15.  Buy Here.  (candles will “burn” for 300 hours on a single set of batteries.)

shower light

LED Shower Light: After the LED candles get your friend and their significant other in the mood, they can jump in the shower. But to avoid a cold blast of water to chill the spark, wait til the shower light gives them the red light.  Ahh.

The LED Shower Light easily installs to standard shower pipe. “When the water warms up to 89° F (32° C), the light changes to red.”  No batteries for this hot gizmo.

Cost: $40  here.  (Also get a faucet light too- 19.99.

sellsius qr code shirt

QR Code T-shirt: Enter your geek friend’s website, blog or F-book URL (or an image) and it will be converted into a QR code and printed on a t-shirt. 100% cotton. Assorted colors and sizes.

Cost: $20 from Zazzle.

usb fridge

USB Fridge: You geekster can keep their beverage icy cold while they tweet, blog or surf the net.  This USB powered gizmo looks like a mini fridge and holds one can and cools it to 8.5º in about five minutes.   The fridge is 19.4 x 9 x 9.7cm in size.

Cost: $24.95 at Scientifics.

video micorwave

CastOven Video Microwave: While waiting for the microwave to zap their snack, geeks can watch a YouTube video on this award winning Japanese microwave.  Video here.

Cost: unknown

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