Got a geek in your life who’s aching for something cool? Here are a few ideas:
Giant Microbes are always a hit. Many years ago, my housemate gave me the common cold. I eventually gave it to my boyfriend (now my ex). No word yet on whether he’s recovered. At least I didn’t give him ebola. Now Giant Microbes even has bird flu and swine flu…
Made with Molecules This is the business of a wonderful science writer, Raven Hanna — silver jewelry in the shape of molecules . She’ll send you caffeine (for the coffee addict), serotonin (when you’re feeling blue), oxytocin (for valentine’s day)… they’re really lovely! If anybody’s looking for a gift for me, I love the serotonin necklace or earrings…
Trilobite For the bio-inspired, this site has clothing centered on evolution and paleontology.
XKCD.com has wonderful stuff inspired by the comic – posters, t-shirts, a tie, and more. The shirt to the left is one of my favorite items in my closet. Deadline for holiday orders is Dec 14!
There are also a couple of good geek-oriented stores, like ThinkGeek and X-Treme Geek.
Got a geek reader? Try a subscription to Isotope (a journal of literary nature and science writing) or Science News (all the news from the science world you could ever want in succinct well-written form).
For those of you who are both geeky and patriotic, here is a patriotic periodic table t-shirt.
And Sarah over at Schooner of Science beat me to the punch with her own geek shopping list, which is suitable for biologists, like cool lab coats and a tie, and my favorite, a cute bacteria wall clock.
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Ooh yes, I have a pair of dopamine earrings (the love molecule, from my boyfriend, group “aw”!) Another gift – I think you can get cool chemistry oriented wine bottles… thinking I’ll do a wish list for a chemist shortly
Love it – my housemate gave me the common cold.
Think Geek isn’t the only ones who carry the Giant Microbes ya know.
Doh! Sorry Matt, I didn’t think of it. They’re the ones who emailed me with the promotion though. Got any other goods that you’d like to highlight here?
I gotta put you on the mailing list.
Anyway, we have our 6-cubed magnet toy: http://www.spectrum-scientifics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=1903
and our Violet-Blue laser pointer:
http://www.spectrum-scientifics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=1775
Just as a couple of ideas.
I guess I should have looked at this post BEFORE 12/14. Neat T-shirts, but too late for my spousal geek for this year.
When you say “The shirt to the left is one of my favorite items in my closet.” I assume that you are looking out from the monitor – you are the person “behind” the blog. From where I sit the shirt looks to be to the right.