MIDDLE EAST
38 GIFTIDEAS
21 December 2008
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Clever gadgets for creative types
Gifts
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OPTOMA PICO
Continuing the theme of giving, here’s another gift
Media Week wants. The Optoma Pico is the world’s
smallest mini projector. It has a battery life of up to two
hours! It is the only 60-inch screen that fits in your pocket!
We’ve tried convincing our bosses we need one of these
‘for work’ but they just muttered something credit-
crunchy about how we ought to be grateful we’re getting
paid at all this month. Bah humbug.
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USB CASSETTE DECK
If the economy is undermining the generosity of
those around you, why not ensure your own happi-
ness with this cassette deck that digitizes old mixtapes
and pilfered Top 40 compilations. You can then make all
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WDTV
your friends and colleagues mix-CDs, design and print off
If, like Media Week, you’ve spent the past few weeks
a cover, and bingo!—budget happy Christmas all round.
stealing company bandwidth to download all those
must-see Christmas movies, this is the item that should
be the focus of your ‘me-me-me’ gift hint campaign. After
all it is the season of giving. The WD TV uses the magic
of technology to make your hard drive speak to your telly.
Goodbye tinny laptop speakers and hello full screen sea-
sonal movie joy.
5
CHALK MUG
Medical science has proved that creative ideas flow
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WINE PUZZLE
Confound the annoyingly smug office techno-nerd
with this wine puzzle. A ha! It’s not based on open
best when you relax, and one way to do this at work
source software! What are you going to do now, nerd boy.
is to take a short tea or coffee break in order to recharge
Probably solve it way faster than Media Week could, and
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VERS 2X SOUND SYSTEM FOR IPOD
the grey matter. Now some bright spark has come up
then proceed to get drunk and make ‘hilarious’ jokes
Another one on the Media Week want list, this
with the idea of glazing mugs with a chalkboard surface,
about the internet that no one else gets.
all-in-one sound system has got us drooling. The
destroying the concept of downtime forever, but allowing
hand-crafted wooden speaker takes a range of iPods and
your creative team to go that extra mile for the company in
produces a gorgeously resonant, natural sound, perfect
these difficult times.
for providing that all important soundtrack to creative
endeavours. We’ve been so good all year…
3
SNOW IN A CAN
Spray a thin and entirely artificial layer of happiness
over your snow-free, miles-from-family Christmas
with ‘instant’ Snow In a Can. This would make a perfect
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COIN SORTER 9
DRINKS COOLER
Another tipple-related gift, this one will break down
social barriers at any Christmas ‘work do’ by allow-
With advertising budgets all round town being cut ing beverages to be delivered up to 30ft from a remote
gift for that annoying copywriter you’ve held a grudge more than a cheerleader in a slasher movie, this is control. Will it help the brash sales team befriend the
against ever since they beat you in the apple bobbing the ideal gift for any worried media drone. ‘Every penny precious creatives and foster a spirit of Christmas unity?
competition at last year’s Christmas do. Time for revenge, counts!’ trills your mother’s voice inside your head, as Possibly, but in the morning they’ll just get their coat and
Secret Santa. another friend-of-a-friend is ‘re-structured’. act like it never happened.
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