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Father's Day Geek Guide

By Tony Kontzer on 2010-06-10


With Father’s Day bearing down on us, a device-obsessed nation once again struggles with what to get the geek dad who has everything. The thing is, they don’t have everything, because there’s always a steady string of new geeky toys hitting the market. Here are 9 gifts your geek dad probably doesn’t have—yet. (And if you’re the geek dad, you might want to share this with your kids.)

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VIDEO GLASSES: The Vuzix Wrap 310

projects your iPhone andiPod videos onto a virtual 55-inch screen. If that’s not geek chic, what is?

ONLINE SECURITY: Netsecure Technologies’ Smart Swipe encrypted credit cardreader

will convert even the most hardenede-commerce skeptics.

STAR WARS COOKIE CUTTERS

Becauseany truly geeky dad loves Darth Vader and Yoda, even more so if they happento be cookies.

WIRELESS SCALE

Any bathroom scale that can automatically Tweet a person’sweight, as the Withings body scaledoes, is a must for any socialmedia-crazy dad.

RFID BLOCKER

With many countries’ passports now embedded with RFID chips,dad will appreciate the ability to ward off the bad guys with anRFID-blocking billfold.

UNDERWATER FOOTAGE OF THE KIDS

They might look dorky, but dads equippedwith Liquid Image’s video maskcan catchjunior’s first strokes from inside the pool.

DO-IT-YOURSELF PONG

Why buy an electronic table tennis game when you canbuild it? Think Geek’s Classic Video Table Tenniswill force dad to putthat soldering iron to work!

E-READER

Let’s face it—any list of potential geeky father’s day gifts thatdoesn’t include the iPad, or at least Amazon’s Kindle, would raise seriousquestions.

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