The Geeks Guide to Last-Minute Holiday Gift Giving in 2010

by Nathan Eddy

Using ball bearings to tell time, the Time Machine clock keeps excellent (if noisy) time and adds a bit of mechanical prowess to the room.

Give the gift of e-reading in color with the Nook, which allows users to browse and buy from an extensive collection of more than two million books.

Rebuild Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential masterpiece using 811 Lego bricks, part of the company’s expanding Architecture line.

Almost as thin as a couple sheets of paper (and not weighing much more), the MacBook Air is the ultimate alternative to less expensive, less capable netbooks.

Offering precision control and turning thanks to accelerometer, the real prize is the video recorder, giving you CIA-like spying capability.

Arguably the best alternative to the Apple iPad, this Android 2.2-powered mobile tablet with 7-inch touch screen offers a front and back camera.

Available through Arkitip, this case, designed to stylishly protect a 15-inch MacBook Pro, blows the doors off typical bland bags we see so often.

Designed by Harri Koskinen and inspired by industrial glass bricks, the bulb is encased between two heavy hand-cast glass blocks that can be placed on the floor or tabletop for ambient lighting.

Author David Maccauley composes a richly illustrated 80-page section on the digital age of modems, digital cameras, compact disks, bits and bytes.

These restickable vinyl wall decals feature Nintendo characters Mario & Donkey Kong and can up the game in any home or office space.