Geek Wish List Entries: Page 2 of 5

marc

• Product: B3-1550 brewing sculpture
• Coolness: I like beer
• Company: Beer, Beer & More Beer
• IT Value: It will keep me happy and focused at work. Also, beer goes over well for work parties!
• Check it out.
• Features: Helps you make beer.
• Reasoning: Makes more beer.

Creed White

• Product: IFP -799
• Coolness: 1 Gig for under $250 with FM, small, 40 hours on battery, can store files and record music on the fly.
• Company: IRiver
• IT Value: It does not have the software to be a Flash drive, but promises to have it soon for a 1 Gig Flash drive...for those large DATA files, yeah that's it!
• Check it out.
• Features: 1 Gig Flash MP3 with FM radio
• Reasoning: Mostly a large collection of MP3s.

Ivan Santayana Rivera

• Product: Powerline Networking Adapters
• Coolness: No new wires.
• Company: D-Link
• IT Value: I could pay for Fiber Internet access and then offer it to PLC network users. Start my own company.
• Check it out.
• Features: Connects PCs and other devices over the existing electrical network.
• Reasoning: To build a LAN in my neighborhood.

Zonker Harris

• Product: Squeezebox
• Coolness: Wired version works with Mac/Linux/Windows, wireless will be cooler.
• Company: Slim Devices
• IT Value: Streaming Audio client in the lab, so I can hear training Web conferences while I'm still working in the lab.
• Check it out.
• Features: Wireless MP3 player, client.
• Reasoning: With battery-powered speakers, backyard parties!

Thomas Voigtlander

• Product: A8 Earphones
• Coolness: Because I tried one on once, and it's like having your own little surround sound system wherever you go.
• Company: Bang & Olufsen
• IT Value: Able to help integrate sound into IT publications.
• Check it out.
• Features: Uuhh...It plays sound, into your ears....
• Reasoning: On the PC, watching late night TV, on the mini-disc player, having music running at uni!!