Geek Up Your Office: Unique Office Gadgets for Geeks

Pop Quiz, hotshot. Think back to a time when you were a young geek. Sure, you were brilliant at math, but being asked to solve problems on the chalkboard... That's the stuff of nightmares. Thankfully, that time is over... Or is it? The smell of chalk, and the feel of the blackboard is still fresh in your mind. If you close your eyes, you can almost feel the eyes staring at your back as you labor to engage your brain and simplify the polynomial. Can you feel your heart beat faster? Are your hands sweaty? Relax! This is just a clock! This lovely new timepiece appears to have been hand-written by that evil math teacher we all had to endure. Each hour is marked by a simple math problem. Solve it and solve the riddle of time. Or, you can just know that "52 - x2 + x = 10" happens to live in the "7 o'clock" position* and be done with it. * - Yes, we know that 52 - x2 + x = 10 allows for 7 and -6 as a possible answer, but since there is no such thing as -6 o'clock, the correct answer becomes glaringly obvious.

The big refrigerator in your office cools a lot of stuff. Food, science experiments once known as food, and your secret stash...of drinks. Of drinks! But what happens when you just want one can at your desk and you want it cold? Well, plug in this small single-can beverage cooler into a USB port and chill a can on your desk. Then you won't have to get up to get your drink.

The USB LED Beverage Cooler is retro styled and has a small blue LED inside. The LED helps your drink stay cool by tricking it to think the air inside the cooler is from the Arctic, because everyone knows that blue lights make you feel cold. So add a little style to your desk and keep your drink cold at the same time. Chill, dude.

When we were little kids, we played in sandboxes with toy steamshovels, drove die-cast dumptrucks, and stared in awe and wonder at the heavy equipment at construction sites. Is it the desire for demolition that drives our fascination with heavy equipment, or is it something deeper? Do we secretly long for a world where machines do our bidding? Of course we do, but we have learned from the lessons of Battlestar, haven't we? If we keep our machines tiny and simple, we may yet survive as a race. So say we all... This tiny machine does all the heavy lifting for us, if by heavy we mean a few ounces. Still, it's a fun way to relive our childhood by playing with forklifts like we've always wanted to! Radio controlled, this little guy tootles around your desk, lifting and moving stuff from one place to another. Bring me my highly caffeinated beverage, now! The R/C Desktop Forklift takes 4 AAA batteries, and a 9 volt battery (not included) in the controller.

This saavy Circuitboard Business Card Case with its techno-appeal will make you the envy of all your peer vice presidents and CEOs. Add insult to injury by showing off this case to people in your organization that don't even have business cards! Ouch. Holds 10-15 cards (depending on your business card thickness) - yet is small enough to comfortably fit in any pocket or case/bag. Real circuit boards come in many colors and have varying degrees of wiring in them. Consequently, so do these business card holders. Revel in their uniqueness! Dimensions: (2 1/4" x 3 5/8")

Admit it - you get a charge when your phone beeps another text-message at you, or when your IM client boings, or if you get an email notification that you've just been added as a new friend in Facebook. That is - until you discover your new friend is your mom. Eesh. Despite your parental unit's invasion of your privacy, we're constantly finding new ways to stay connected with each other. Twitter, Facebook... even our beloved mascot, Timmy's all wired up. We're all interconnected through quick messages, sent across vast distances, across the hall or across continents, it doesn't matter. We're internet enabling everything now. Our phones, our gaming consoles and now our clocks. This iXP3 Internet Messaging Clock, for example, is incredibly cool in its own right. Red LEDs on a quickly swinging arm create the illusion of text floating in mid-air. It'll tell the time and the temperature, but the truly nifty part comes from the little port tucked hidden in the back. That's right, it's an Ethernet port! Plug it into a router, and register the device on the manufacturer's website. Once done, you can send it messages from anywere. Get greetings from your girlfriend in Geneva, felicitations from your friends in Fairbanks, or regards from your roommate in Romania. These messages get sent automatically and display in lovely floating photons.

This ain't yo momma's Etch-A-Sketch, son. This paperless LCD writing tablet is perfect for leaving messages, sketching ideas, and practicing anything from handwriting to calculus without killing a single tree. But we hear you. You're thinking, "WTF can *I* use this thing for, ThinkGeek?" Allow us to give you some suggestions, based on your likely occupation.Parental Unit: Grocery lists, honey-do's, chores list, scoreboard for family game night Monkey-suited Executive: Take notes at meetings, draw buzzword-laden charts Artiste: Quick sketching exercises, doodles Mad Scientist: Molecules, schematics, master plans (Perpetual) Student: Handwriting, math, homework to-do list Monkey: Banana inventory, poo-to-target success rate The stainless steel, telescoping stylus isn't the only tool you can use to write on the Boogie Board, either.