You don’t have to be high-tech savvy to find a perfect geek gift for a teen boy. You just need to figure out where the geeks shop and what they are buying. Here is a list of ideal geek holiday gifts suitable for teen boys.
Geek Wavy Wand- Not known for their social skills, lovable geek teens still need to communicate. What better holiday gift than a Geek Wavy Wand that lets the geeky teen write his message in lights in the air? Or download images from the computer to program into his Geek Wavy Wand? The Geek Wavy Wand sells for $29.99 at www.thinkgeek.com.
LighTalk II– LighTalk II is another communication tool for teen geeks. This pen size device lets your teen geek scan an image and reproduce it in lights in the air. The cost for this holiday geek gift is $39.99 at www.thinkgeek.com.
Microcontroller- The microcontroller is a computerized circuit board that can perform up to 100 experiments. The detailed instructions will help your teen geek use this holiday gift for an amazing array of functions including plotting measurements, light control, making music, creating an alarm system, devising a safe lock or improvising rain-sensing windshield wipers. The microcontroller costs $159.95 at www.mindware.com.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3-Buy your teen geek his own roller coaster for the holidays with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Your teen geek will design and build his own 3-D roller coasters in the PC game. As tycoon, he will manage the entire amusement park and the characters in it. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 operates on a Windows 98 or higher platform and is available in retail stores for $69.99.
70 Japanese Gestures-For the teen geek who is too busy to take on learning the whole Japanese language, this book will provide some basic Japanese communication skills- 70 gestures actually used in Japan today. These Japanese gestures are also common in anime and manga. This book sells for $7.99 at www.x-tremegeek.com.
Whoosh, Bam, Splat– It’s no secret that teen boy geeks are attracted to propulsion machines and forces of destruction. Provide a safe outlet for their experimentation with this book that will allow them to make steam cannons, marshmallow shooters, tee shirt cannons and other geeky projectile creations. This book sells for $11.53 at www.amazon.com.
Whole Brain Sets – Whole brain sets are wooden brain teasers with ropes and rings that require use of both right and left brain skills to solve. For a holiday gift, buy a set of 5 of these puzzles to keep your teen geek busy in between other projects. The Whole Brain Set of 5 sells for $69.95 at www.mindware.com.
Irregular IQ Cube– If your teen geek loved the Rubik’s cubes and alternate size and shape Rubik’s cubes you gave him for prior holidays, the Irregular IQ Cube may be just the holiday gift for him this year. The catalog describes this toy as geometrically deformed and its difficulty level as insanity. Can your teen geek meet the challenge? The Irregular IQ Cube is sold at www.thinkgeek.com for $9.99.
