Mattel produces the Vidster Digital Camcorder for ages 8 and up including a USB cable to transfer the video to a computer and editting software.
If a kid on your list is a film geek, this would be an excellent present to introduce film-making to the geeklet.
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Radioshack’s Vex Robotics Starter Kit allows kids to customize their own robots with unlimited design possibilities. The kit allows you to design robots with many different functions: 4 wheel robots, crawlers, etc… and control via remote control.
Give your budding geek a kit to build his own remote control robot for Christmas!
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LeapFrog, a leader in educational toys, created a newer and smaller verion of the Leapster called The Leapster Multimedia Learning System. The Leapster allows kids to play games while learning!
With a wide variety of learning games, children learn essential skills while playing video games. The Leapster is appropriate for kids in preschool up to 4th grade.
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Wow Wee International’s Roboraptor brings a dinosaur to life for kids. While the reviews from adults are not thrilled with this toy, kids absolutely love the robotic raptor.
The Roboraptor has over 40 preprogrammed functions and fluidly moves the neck and tails back and forth while either running, walking or a predatory gait. The creature has three moods, plays tug of war and detects and avoids object in it’s path.
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Producer: Firaxis
Distributor: 2K Games
A perennial favorite, Sid Meier’s Civilization series has set the standard in the past for turn based strategy games. Now the 4th generation in this series is released, with a new fully 3-D graphics system and some changes to the tried and true formula that has made Civilization the masterpiece series that has spawned imitations and hybrid versions (namely Sid’s Alpha Centauri, and Colonization.) How does this new version fare?
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Gaming consoles are super hot this year with the next generation of consoles starting to come out with the advent of the Xbox 360. The other larger consoles are the same consoles being sold over the past couple of years with no technology changes (XBox, Gamecube, and PS2).
Making a splash in the console market since last Christmas are the handhelds however. The PSP leads the pack as the most advanced while the Game Boy Micro is a great value as well as the DS.
If you want to make a geek happy this Christmas, get them a video game console!
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If you already don’t have one and are not willing to pay over $800 or $1000 on ebay, forget about it! As usual every Christmas, the hotest video game console that comes out has been under-produced and over-hyped creating a frenzy of having to have the Xbox 360 before Christmas. Give an IOU and let your gamer fanatic get one plus a few games AFTER Christmas.
From the demos we’ve seen though, the Xbox 360 is sexy for sure…
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The Nintendo Game Boy Micro is a best value in the handheld gaming console arena as the GBM can play any of the 700 titles in the Game Boy Advanced library! The screen offers great gameplay under any condition and is so portable it will fit in your shirt pocket.
Think of the Micro as the Nano for the handheld gaming consoles…
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When is a gaming system an entire multimedia device with it’s own DVD format? When it’s a PSP or Playstation Portable!
While double the price of the Nintendo DS, the PSP has many of the same features plus more. You can stay connected with the PSP with through 802.11b wireless LAN connections as well as watch DVD movies using a new disc formation (UMD). This currently is the top of the line handheld gaming console.
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The Nintendo DS gaming system is a revolutionary handheld gaming system which offers two screens for different perspectives on the game being played, voice recognition, touch screen and wireless communication. The graphics and sound are excellent to boot too!
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