Gifts for Geeks

Gift ideas for geeks delivered by the Geeks. Plus the Week in Geek News and a caller question or two.

Nanowire battery

A [new battery technology|http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219103105.htm] improves energy storage.

Samba gets Docs

After a court case [Microsoft gives documentation to the Samba group|http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071221/bs_nf/57364]. Which should allow the group to improve the file sharing from Linux and Macintosh to use Windows shares.

Math Traffic

[Traffic Jams explained through math|http://www.physorg.com/news117283969.html].

Small Scale Power

Toshiba Builds 100x [Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor|http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html]

! Gift Ideas

Miles suggests trying http://www.woot.com to find geek gifts.
[USB Turntable|http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/90a0], for geeks with vinyl that they want to rip into digital.
[Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU|http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2XE/index.htm?iid=prod_desktopcore+body_core2exQX9650]
[SilverStone Temjin TJ10 PC Chassis|http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=tj10]
[LG GGW-H20L 6x Blu-Ray writer/reader|http://us.lge.com/products/model/detail/computer%20products_optical%20drives_optical%20drives_GGW-H20L.jhtml] , 3x HD DVD reader, and 16x DVD writer with Lightscribe and Serial ATA interface.
[NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT|http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8800gt.html]
Adobe [Lightroom|http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/] for digital photography management.

! First Appearance
This episode of GeekSpeak was the first appearance for Sean Pelletier, Technical Marketing Analyst at [NVIDIA|http://www.nvidia.com/].