Before I tell you about my favorite offbeat tech-flavored goodies and culty gadgets of the season, let me tell you that as is true for all good technophiles, I am a hoarder. Like a squirrel preparing for acorn-geddon, my apartment has enough discarded electronics stashed in nooks and crannies to start a dubious resale business.
Sadly, some of the phones, cameras, GPS devices and odd Franken-tronics are barely warm when they are force-retired from active duty status (AKA living in my purse and traveling the world).
It isn’t always this way. When you have a taste for tech, there are many shiny toys that come through your life, but there are always the special ones. The ones that end up well worn, and much loved.
The problem is, tech toys like that are one in a million.
It’s like that one point and shoot camera you took everywhere with you last Summer. Or that one phone you held on to after newer ones came out because you just loved the damn thing so much.
You regard your prized, trusty little gadget and think it must have been made by a deranged, over-caffeinated pirate army of feral designers and developers who actually cared. Anomaly!
This gift guide, from cameras to lifestyle accessories and green tech to offbeat books, is all about smart and nerdy gifts that are primed to stay in heavy rotation.
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Violet Blue is a Forbes Web Celeb, SF Appeal contributor, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's Faces of Innovation.
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Violet Blue
I am currently freelancing part-time (only) for ReadWriteWeb for their general news blog and their Start (startup tools) channel; this was made in agreement that I would not write about anything that might conflict subjects in my blog (no sex content). I'm under contract to publisher Cleis Press for editing three more books (only) with the topics of women's/couples' erotica. I have been writing and editing books for Cleis Press for ten years on the subjects of erotica and human sexuality (guidebooks). I'm not under exclusive contract anywhere/to anyone/to anything, I have no investments.
Biography
Violet Blue
Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com, @violetblue) is a Forbes Web Celeb, SF Appeal contributor, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's Faces of Innovation. She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (MacLife, Forbes.com, The Oprah Winfrey Show, others) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets (from ABC News to the Wall Street Journal). A published feature writer and columnist, Violet also has many award-winning, best-selling books; her books are featured on Oprah's website. She was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc. The London Times named Blue one of the 40 bloggers who really count.
