So did anyone get any cool tech gifts this year?

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Standard fair (fare?) at our house this year. My son wanted a Wii, but I [i][b]refused[\b][\i] to pay more than retail for the thing, even though I want it just as much as he does. $600 or more for one?!? Come on!!! X-( I'll just wait for my tax refund and get it for him in February or March. So anyway, what about you? Did you get that cool tech item that you wanted? Just wondering. Have a good one!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do nice fur slippers cound as tech?  :LOL: 

Actually my home theater system decided go out last saturday. Got myself a Samsung model HT-WX70, 1200watts with wireless rear speakers with a 5 disk DVD player. Has a FM tuner and is XM Satellite radio ready. More controls for adjusting the sound that anyone should have. I like it! ;) 
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
MP3 player, 8GB Creative Zen.
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nikon D80 + Nikkor 80-200/2.8+SB-600
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
24" Widescreen LCD, Wacom Intuos Tablet 4X6  :HOT: 
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Eyeclops!!

All my girls (4, 8. 18) are so caught up with this.  We've been making lists of things to magnify.  Toenails, scabs, adn eyes at 200X are all pretty gross!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
lets see...



I got a remote control that connects to my pc via USB, and can control all the CRUD i have connected to the new 37" LCD TV (I got 3 mo ago).

A couple XBox360 games (Orangebox and BioShock, both will take a while to play). And a cool Electric razor that might help me keep my head shinny!

Hope everyone got what they wanted, or at least didnt get any Coal.. I do know where to get a LOT of coal if needed.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nobody ever buys me anything  :SNIFF!: So I buy my own. Got myself a Blu-ray player and a few disks. Wow, I have to put my glasses on to watch tv - it sooo sharp and detailed  :CONGRAT: 
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I bought myself Object Desktop and 2 gigs of RAM.

And I got a gorgeous furry lambskin rug.. that I put on my bed. Nothing like sleeping on a fur.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And I got a gorgeous furry lambskin rug.. that I put on my bed. Nothing like sleeping on a fur.
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Information overload!!!!!! :LOL: 
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Got a bottle of Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey and I bought myself the Sirus skin. HO HO HO! :)
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Bought myself a lightscribe dvd burner and an 8gb Zen Micro. Next week, I'm buy 2 more gb of ram as an encore performance......
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The most techy thing I got was a painting...... ;)
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The new Logitech G15 keyboard and a ATi Radeon HD3870
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The most techy thing I got was a painting......
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Snow my bud, you need to get your GEEK on!
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Me... got myself a 19" ViewSonic wide-screen LCD monitor with hi.fi stereo sound... not that I need it with my new X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality Pro (Champions Edition) sound card and 5.1 Logitech speaker system. Cranked it up half-way Xmas morning... now we have a leak where it lifted the roof. ;p

Next up is air-con....temps around here will be getting into the high 30's to low 40's Celsius in the next few weeks... and I prefer 15 - 20 C. :)
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Motorola S9 Stereo Bluetooth headphones. They smaller than the HT820 I got last year :) 
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Most of the stuff in the picture are toys I got this year. There are 4 more speakers at the back (7.1). Those IKEA cabinets will go this Saturday in favor of a large entertainment center.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You left your bike in the picture.......... hehehe. B[]
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
jamespaulp what size are we talking there?
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
@BoXXi, that bike is the most important gadget in the picture :). My son will be upset someday that it is not fully captured.
@Philly: 60" Pioneer Elite Kuro Plasma.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Very nice james, knew it had to be bigger than 50". Now which WB looks best on it?  ;) 
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks Philly. I really would like to see WB and Dreams in action on that TV. Haven't tried connecting the PC to it yet. I am waiting for the entertainment center to be setup this weekend so that I can bring the PC and may be servers to the living room. I also need to install Vista Ultimate to get the Dreams going. That may take more time. Have an old laptop with a max resolution of 1280x1024 in that cabinet but hasn't not switched on in a long time.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The missus got me a NOKIA N95 8GB ... best mobile I ever had , I listen to a lot of classical music and , until now , I couldn't even listen to a complete symphony ..with this I can , and it also has a fantastic pc interface too ~ along with a Jawbone Headset for it ... superb ... Both are absolutely superb .. MEEZA VERY HAPPY !!!

If you ain't seen em yet ,heres a coupla links for you !

NOKIA N95 8gb ~ WWW Link

Jawbone ~ WWW Link
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A friend of mine bought an N95 from Amazon a while ago. He wasn't happy. He let me use it for week. I liked the 5MP camera and the music player but the rest of the stuff including wireless networking and browsing had serious issues. He returned it and settled for iPhone.
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got a used 300GB Maxtor external HD.Which stopped being recognized by XP as soon as I had transferred my entire music collection to it. :SURPRISED: 
After doing some googling,turns out I'm just one of thousands with the exact same problem.Damn you Maxtor! X-( 

Adventurous pc repairman that I am,I tore it apart and removed the drive from it housing.Split the connector so I could hook half to the MB and the other too the power supply of its original case...hang the whole thing sloppily out the side and voila!...there were my songs!Plus its a serial ata.Now there are 4 HD's in my cheesy Emachines PC(well,mostly in  ;) )