D3 - Devise Design Develop

First of all, as a techie myself, this list is mainly just crap that i’d love to have but don’t want to pay for myself. That being said I think there’s some viable gift ideas for the techie on your list that has everything else they could want.

1. IronKey: The World’s Most Secure USB Flash Drive with Internet Protection Services

from $79 It’s a super-duper USB flash drive that offers a rugged military quality design, secured encryption and a ton of other high tech features. The best one of all is that it’ll self destruct after 10 incorrect password guesses or if someone tampers with the case. Obviously way over the top for the normal user but I must admit it’s pretty great to think of a place I can store anything without ANYONE else getting access even if they tried.

2. Optimus Maximus LED keyboard

~$1564.37 OK, this one is a bit of an overshot but it’s so damn cool that it has to be on the list. Each key of this fantastic keyboard has a tiny screen on it to show what the key is supposed to do, not only will it capitalize the letters and show the special characters across the number row when you hit shift, you can also program it to work with your favorite programs like shortcuts in Photoshop or even show graphical representations of the hotkeys for your games. But with a pricetag at almost $1600, i’m sure it’s not going to be on many people’s lists this Christmas.

3. Kidz-Med Thermofocus

$99.95 I don’t understand how, but someone made a device that finds your temperature without any kind of contact using totally harmless and safe infrared technology. Just move it close to the forehead and wham-o you got the temperature. I can imagine this being a supremely convenient and safe alternative to the conventional means of taking ones temperature.

4. VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse

$69.99 I admit, this is something I actually already own, so I can say with confidence that it’s absolutely amazing because of one single feature i’ve never seen before. The Logitech peeps aptly call it ‘Hyper-fast scrolling’ and it’s amazingly awesome, basically it’s a scrollwheel without the tactile clicks at every turn. You can swipe the wheel and (depending on how hard you swiped) it’ll continue to spin for several seconds. This is perfect for scrolling quickly through webpages and documents once you get the hang of it. I swipe the wheel and then tap it to stop it ‘on a dime’ right where I want to. If that wasn’t enough you can click the wheel and bring it back to the familiar tactile precision scrolling. Because this is activated by clicking the wheel, they added another button right under it that can act as the action that normally happens when you click a scroll wheel (e.g. auto-scroll). Finish it off with a forward/back set of buttons, side scrolling capabilities and the fact that it’s a laser mouse and you can’t get much better. I must mention that there’s been a few comments on Amazon that this mouse is not as easy to set up on macs because apparently it’s not included on the provided CD.

5. InferPoint Slimouse SlimPad

N/A Everything you know about the design of the mouse has been turned on its ear, this thing is square in shape and super thin. It has a scroll ‘wheel’ but the wheel is nonexistent, it uses a sensor touch-scroll that apparently allows for greater precision.

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