What Web Celebs Want

Come the holiday season, some folks have visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads. But if you´re like us, your Christmas dreams tend more toward rows of blinking LEDs and the soothing hum and sweet smell of fresh new electronic gadgetry. For inspiration while assembling our ultimate for-geeks, by-geeks gift list, PopSci consulted a cross-section of sci-tech luminaries, star bloggers and online personalities-everyone from Kevin Rose of digg.com to Fake Steve Jobs to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia-to see what toys they wanted most this year, in addition to what dreamy gifts they look forward to receiving in the future.

Click here for a look at their answers, from the sensible (Amazon Kindle) to ones that give pause (plasma laser cutter, anyone?). Let´s just hope Santa´s sleigh has a Hemi. -Jon Chase

Contributors to the For-Geeks, By-Geeks Gift Guide:

• Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)

Amanda Congdon (Videoblogger)

Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing)

Kevin Rose (Digg.com)

Wil Wheaton (Author)

Ray Kurzweil (Author, Inventor, Futurist)

Chris Burke (Chiptune Musician)

Daniel Lyon (Fake Steve Jobs)

Nolan Bushnell (Atari)

Matt Harding (Internet Filmmaker)

Mark Frauenfelder (MAKE/Boing Boing)

Timothy Ferriss (4-Hour Work Week)

Jonathan Coulton (Musician)

Phil Torrone (MAKE)

Dave Prochnow (How 2.0 Blogger/Builder)

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