Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Your Geeky Sweetie

It is that time of the year again! I know why you are here, either by a search engine or for the reason that stands among the rest: you are in search of the best affordable gifts for your sweetie! The stores are now wall-to-wall with roses, chocolate, cards, and such common things that you have already sent to your partner in the former Valentine and the things that can hardly bring a surprise to your sweetie, especially if he or she is technology-inclined ones or geeks.

It is still about one month away from the Valentine's Day and you still have a lot of choices. If you want to save the trouble from picking one present from so many choices, here are some V-day gift lists mostly for your geeky partners and they are mainly computer peripherals or digital peripherals that they may rather get for an upgrade to their gadgets than jewelry or roses. Still not sure what she or he'd want? No worries! Give the gift of gadgets.



Headphones that combine music and fashion

We all know fashion and music come hand in hand. Such headphone is just the gadget that comes in stunning colors and textures. Gift her or him such a headphone for an upgrade to the old ones. The tones and sleek design just come together to add raw beauty to the music. Red is a Valentine’s color, I suppose and she must love it. Of course, for the males, this is also a suitable one during this special time.



USB hub for tidy table

Send him or her such a USB hub for better organization of the table. We know most of us may have a lot of digital devices and peripheral accessories, which come with a lot of cords and cables. For geeks, they may even have more such gadgets and cords and the trouble is the lack of USB ports or mess of the cables on the table. The USB hub with more USB ports can organize all the devices. Still, the functional gadget just ensures no need to separate charging for our phone and tablets.



USB Flowers

Flower is to love what sunshine to warmth. Yes, we can always see red roses in the lover' hand on Valentine's Day. Though roses are too common gifts, we can make them special, say, the USB flowers. Since the common roses are beautiful, but they are useful once they get withered. Such a bunch of USB flowers are actually useful and your geeky girlfriend will surely appreciate such USB hub.



Heart USB Flash Drive

And finally, jewelry! Yes, jewelry is still common gift for V-day. But for a tech girlfriend who has little interest in expensive jewelry yet shares a lot of nice memory with you, gift her such a heart shaped USB flash drive. It can store a lot of data and still can be used as a jewelry.

USB Gadgets of Unique Design: Strange or Creative?

Owning a computer is no special thing. In fact a lot of PC users like to personalize the computers, with various peripherals or USB gadgets that can store or move data not only conveniently, but also in a stylish way. USB devices now are able to store more data yet come in comparatively small size or even very unusual design. They just offer us more comfort and convenience, and also have become a subject of interest because of their design and art. We can find a lot of USB gadgets so attention grabbing and interesting that anyone can hardly resist.

We come up with this post to share some of the USB designs with the essence of creativity. Be it a USB drive or a USB cable, these devices have been a source for our innumerable data transfers and even nice decorations for our office table.

This is an very cute USB flash drive that looks as if it is a cork in an empty bottle. Never pour any liquid into the bottle. Otherwise, all of the data will be deleted. Actually, the bottle is a very excellent protector for the USB drive, and keeps it away from moisture or dust. When we need to use it, we can just plug out the cork and insert it into the computer to transmit data.

This is a cool bottle USB drive with even larger memory storage up to 1GB. The cap was made out of opaque black plastic to replicate the real Canadian Club bottle cap. It is an artistic one, with the bottle being printed with a gold 'Canadian Club Whisky 1958'artwork.



It is a USB device with the look of athlete shoes. That’s cute, but remember to put in a place where you can find it easily.



This is biscuit USB drive. Probably never use it when you are hungry.



This is a USB flash drive with bottle opener shape. The flash drive has a functioning bottle opener on the end, with the other end plugging into the PC or other devices. Use it to store data or as a bottle opener. Bring it to work, or bring it out to happy hour.



This is a hand grenade USB device



Edison USB Flash Drive



USB Flash Drive Lighter



I bet most of you will be interested in attaching a device to this USB connector when you say it in public. "Dead drops," a public file sharing project. If you find the address of one these dead drops, then go share your files and partake of others'.



USB flash drive with folder style

Cool Tech Gadgets For Male Friends as 2014 Christmas Gifts

What have you bought for your dad, husband, boyfriend, brother or other male friends this Christmas? Buying gifts for men is never easy, but it is known to all that men love gadgets, especially the cool tech gadgets. Most electronic gadgets are expensive. But for men, they love gadgets of any sort. They don’t care the cost of the gift, but they will love the gift that is cool and fun. Whether you have got the gifts prepared or you still have no idea, here are some tech gadgets as Christmas presents for men, useful, affordable and decent. Anyway, buy them all for yourself; and we won't judge.

This is a very cool gadget, that takes a classic look of an alarm clock. Combine it with smart phone dock, and let it remind you to get up with classic metal ringing. Most often, we use smart phone as alarm clock, but when we undergo the Monday blues, it might be too noisy to get us out of bed.

Super Speed Hard Drive Docking Station

If your male friends love to repair computers or have not enough hard drives, the hard drive dock station is a nice gift. It is a decent affordable SATA to USB 3.0 hard drive dock station that supports 3TB drives and can copy data in the old computer or any broken computer very conveniently.



Now smart phone is very common tool that we almost bring it with us every moment. If he is smart phone-obsessed, send him this laser projection keyboard so that he will type and click away on the projection as if he is using a real keyboard. This keyboard is portable and can be a very cool gadget for trip. With this keyboard, there is no need to thumb type the smart phone again.



Now we have more data to be stored, whether they are images, file, videos, etc. The more storage device, the better and the larger space it offers, the better. If the storage gadget can be cool, that is even great. Send him a USB key. This is a very cool looking money clop that can be used as a secret USB flash drive. It can store data up to 8GB, really large enough for countless photos.



Send him a USB hub that has more ports for various USB supported gadgets. This is a USB hub with 13 ports. It is a super speed USB 3.0 hub with transfer rate up to 5Gbps, 10x faster than USB 2.0. The sleek apple style design just makes it nice gadget for Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, and Mac mini. The ports are compatible with a wide-variety of devices, including iPhone, iPad, HTC Phones, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Phone, etc. Let this USB hub better organize the desk of your friends.

How to Choose Hard Drive Docking Station for Laptops

A docking station is such a device for connecting all the ports of a portable electronics to a set of peripheral devices via a simple connection. Some of the docking stations are used for charging a digital and some others function as a desktop computer, complete with a more comfortable layout and set of accessories.

Docking stations are convenient devices for office or home use since its easy integration of a portable device without having to bother with multiple cables. Via the docking stations, we can add new types of connectors to a device that did't originally exist so as to add ports available.

More and more digital gadget users tend to use laptop than desktop when they decide to get a new computer. Then the use of laptop docking station gets popular. Docking stations for laptops help us to do multiple tasks in much easier way. Via the hard drive docking, we can connect it to other electronics or even charge the other digital devices. We can use the docking stations for convenient connections with peripheral devices like printers or other external hard drives.

Besides laptop docking station, there are docking stations for other devices, such as hard drive. HDD docking stations, unlike laptop docking stations is that a hard drive is plugged into an existing computer in an HDD docking station. HDD docking stations can help transfer data between two HDDs, or for quick swapping HDDs without any external drive enclosure. When we need a docking station for hard drive, we still need to check out what type of hard drive interface it supports, SATA or IDE interfaces. Besides, some HDD docking stations can function as a USB hub or multi-card reader.

Then let's come to the docks for iPad or other Apple products. There are many docking stations for the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and they range from simple charging stations to audio-video docks and full desktop computer docking stations.

For laptop docking stations online, we can start from category of Computers / Tablets & Networking followed by Laptop & Desktop Accessories and then Laptop Docking Stations. We need to consider what docking station our laptop needs.

Purchase of HDD Docking Stations: It is better to start from the computer, tablets and networking categories when we try to search for hard drive docking stations. Sometimes, such docking stations may fall under the category laptop & desktop Accessories or drives, storage. For a specific interface, such as IDE or SATA , we need to add such terms in our search.

Docking Stations for Smart Phone or iPod: Usually, for the docking station used for smart phones or iPad, we can find them under categories of consumer electronics or computers. Just narrow down our search results based on the functionality of docking station we want.