Did You Get Any Cool Gadgets This Christmas?

from JoeUser Forums

Well Christmas is unfortunately over, and I have been reading about all the gadgets and goodies that people received.  I bought quite a few games over the past week, but I did take the gift cards I received and bought a PS3.  I really didn’t get it just for the games, but we needed a media outlet for the master bedroom TV, and the blu-ray and Netflix streaming would be well worth it. 

What gadgets did you acquire over the holiday?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Does a waffle-iron count as a cool gadget?  I do think waffles are pretty cool.  :w00t:

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

It's not a gadget, but I finally got Dragon Age: Orgins. It's amazing:thumbsup:

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

32 inch HDTV.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

vhs to dv converter

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I got the first set of Futurama Heavyweights. It has Bender in it so does it count as "Gadget"?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Dash, reply 1
Does a waffle-iron count as a cool gadget?  I do think waffles are pretty cool. 
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You bet it is...and it makes other gadgets: Waffles = Pancakes with butter and syrup traps.  :drool:  Yum!

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

I got wireless headphones and an mp3 player and 4.3 gigs of music.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A new Dual Core CPU, does that count as a gadget?

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

I got a box spring and a bed frame.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A wireless mouse shaped like a Ferrari, only trouble is my brain is not fast enough to keep up with it!
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's still in the shop, but will be installed tomorrow when my techie mate Darren comes up to overclock my Phenom II x4 920, and that's a Zalman CPU cooler and fan setup.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I bought a new frying pan, does that count? :-"

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

i got a new motherboard with amd athlon x2 multi-ciore proccessor 3.0ghz !!!!!

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Well, I got a polo short, am positive that is not a gadget but my wife got a blender. My younger son got one of those digital cameras for children, now I get too see just how child durable it really is. The under-1-megapixel pictures it takes may be crappy for the price, but to my son they are 12 megapixel pictures from a $500 camera, till he throws it around that is. :grin:

Tax Time will be my gadget time as I seek to get myself a WD TV Live or which ever equivelent is out that is better at the time.

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

but I did take the gift cards I received and bought a PS3
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Wow, never seen anyone put that much money in a giftcard before. $50 has been the most from family and friends, $100 from a company. Not bad.

A wireless mouse shaped like a Ferrari, only trouble is my brain is not fast enough to keep up with it!
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Pictures would be nice, never seen this mouse you speak of before.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Christmas for the wife and I was pretty thin this year but the kids got enough stuff to make it OK for everyone.

Miriam's favorite gadget was a Crayola light pen and Gwen's was Crazy Aaron's color-changing Thinking Putty.  Good times for all!

(If anyone wnats to send me their old, broken down gadgets from last year (for the kids) I'll accept them.  :))

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Didn't get one gadget.  >:(

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I got a 7 port USB HUB (It was desperatley needed) and Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Multimedia Adaptor. The Multimedia adaptor is great. I can watch all my digital movies through a flash drive or portable HD on my HDTV or any TV I plug it into.

 

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

I didn't get any gadgets this year--I am that family member who doesn't want anything and is really hard to buy for.   But I did give away an E-reader (a Nook), and a 24" monitor to someone who was using a 14" CRT for their desktop.   I plan to give myself a Verizon Droid before too long.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My wife got me a TomTom.....not sure why ;) as I've exlpained to her many times.....I'm a man, therefore I never get lost

I do occasionally take an indirect route to my destination

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

I got some money, which will be used to help with my Pandora funds. Since it's going to a cool gadget, does that count?

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting PoSmedley, reply 18
I got a 7 port USB HUB (It was desperatley needed) and Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Multimedia Adaptor. The Multimedia adaptor is great. I can watch all my digital movies through a flash drive or portable HD on my HDTV or any TV I plug it into.

 
End of PoSmedley's quote

I have a DVD player that has a USB port, I watch movies from a flash drive!! 

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sony Reader Pocket edition. Since I read at least one book a week, it is super convenient.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ipod touch 3g, 32 gig. It ROX.. 5*

Dewalt cordless circular saw, sander,worklight,sawzall,Power drill set.

55 piece pneumatic set with, dremmel tool,impact wrench, sander,socketwrench,air hammer and sorted bits connectors.

10 watt police LED flashlight with focus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a DVD player that has a USB port, I watch movies from a flash drive!!
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I didn't know such a thing existed. Cool.

I like what I got. It's smaller than a blackberry, so very portable. Only bug I have with it is using USB's. If it has software preinstalled, it reads that as a partition and won't read anything other than the 'first' partition. I have to find USBs that have no partitions or software installed.