# Suggest a fun Geek toy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 18, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417 "2010-02-18T01:08:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/1 "2010-02-18T01:08:40Z")
OK, I have a few hundred dollars left over this month. Normally I would put this into the house or savings, but this month I feel like treating me.
I’m looking for a “toy”. Something to play with, to amuse myself with. Something to take up my time.
It should be fun.
It should be geeky.
It should inspire envy in other geeks.
Beyond that, feel free to suggest anything.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/2 "2010-02-18T01:12:50Z")
Remote control helicopter. US$22.99 + shipping
[http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/)
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/3 "2010-02-18T01:14:52Z")
Same site, but get the USB Nerf Rocket Launcher.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/4 "2010-02-18T02:29:34Z")
[Lego Mindstorms](http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx). With the additional benefit of when you make something cool, you can post it here and we’ll all be in awe of you.
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### Author:  [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/5 "2010-02-18T04:58:42Z")
Build a home theater PC. I built one in December for \<$500, and it inspires the greatest of envy in all of my friends. I don’t have cable, so it doesn’t record movies, but for $10 more I could have had the hardware required to do so.
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/6 "2010-02-18T05:13:10Z")
Handheld [GPS](https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=8705&ra=true). Does tons of fun stuff, especially [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FxrMY91jJU&feature=player_embedded#).
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### Author:  [@maisoui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maisoui)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/7 "2010-02-18T06:15:30Z")
Might be a couple of months’ worth of “leftover money.”
[Rubber band gun!](http://disintegrator.co.uk/photos.htm)
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/8 "2010-02-18T08:23:03Z")
[Go nuts](http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml). I recommend one of [these](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/).
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/9 "2010-02-18T09:29:34Z")
How about a [Klein Stein](http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm)?
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### Author:  [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/10 "2010-02-18T13:57:44Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> Remote control helicopter. US$22.99 + shipping
> [http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/)
If you’re going to do this, get the $100 one with the built-in airsoft cannon.
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### Author:  [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/11 "2010-02-18T14:36:59Z")
Euler’s Disk
[http://www.tangenttoy.com/euler/](http://www.tangenttoy.com/euler/)
Good stuff, Maynard.
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### Author:  [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/12 "2010-02-18T15:19:47Z")
A big-assed [magnet](http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=70_80&zenid=a9aec9a1a7e65488c74fb28659ba7c94) or two. Or a similarly-assed [laser](http://www.wickedlasers.com/GREEN_LASERS-37-1.html).
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/13 "2010-02-18T15:26:44Z")
I have a couple hundred of these [neodynium magnets](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/bbe8/?pfm=Carousel_Buckyballs_3), and I’m the envy of my coworkers. I really want to order some more.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/14 "2010-02-18T15:43:01Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> Remote control helicopter. US$22.99 + shipping
> [http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/a75e/)
I’m buying this. Right now.
Do **not** buy a Robosapien. Like most things from The Sharper Image, it seems pretty cool, but once you get it, it turns out to be fairly useless.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/15 "2010-02-18T16:02:19Z")
I’d try [American Science and Surplus](http://www.sciplus.com/index.cfm) or [United Nuclear](http://www.unitednuclear.com/). You can get Trinitite!
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/16 "2010-02-18T18:26:54Z")
> [@Athena](#):
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> [Lego Mindstorms](http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx). With the additional benefit of when you make something cool, you can post it here and we’ll all be in awe of you.
Like you can build a robot to solve a Rubik’s cube!
> **[Tilted Twister](https://tiltedtwister.com/)**
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/17 "2010-02-18T19:12:11Z")
> [@Zeriel](#):
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> If you’re going to do this, get the $100 one with the built-in airsoft cannon.
Nah, go [all](http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x4/gallery/pictures/picture-9.php) [out](http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/gallery/pictures/picture-65.php).
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/18 "2010-02-18T19:25:44Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> Nah, go [all](http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x4/gallery/pictures/picture-9.php) [out](http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/gallery/pictures/picture-65.php).
You call that going all out? [This](http://www.corporatehelicopters.com/staticpages/index.php?page=MD900) is going all out.
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### Author:  [@JerseyFrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyFrank)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/19 "2010-02-18T19:31:25Z")
Arduino. Google it and you’ll be hooked.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-fun-geek-toy/529417/20 "2010-02-18T19:33:24Z")
[Squeezebox Boom](http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Squeezebox-Network-Player-Internet/dp/B001DJ64D4). Fun and geeky.
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