Gifts to Sate Your Technolust

In today's Wired News, a gadget shopping guide I pulled together, in which everything was selected for mobility. Battery-powered holiday travel delay coping mechanisms.


For geeks, the most telling signs of seasonal reality have nothing to do with a crisp chill in the smog, the scent of tofurkey roasting in the microwave or that scraping sound a super-sized fir makes when you're cramming it through the front door of your nano-apartment.No. The sure sign it's time to move out of holiday denial and into holiday acceptance is the sight of all those fresh gadgets jamming shelves at the mall.

Electronic healing starts when you admit you are powerless over your problem — deciding which gizmos to buy, either for your loved ones or yourself. To kick-start your journey of techno-recovery, consider these goodies, all of which can fit handily into a single carry-on bag (we've even picked that out for you).

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