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Austin, Texas, High-Tech Workers Offer Wish List of Holiday-Gift Ideas.
Dec. 22--Three shopping days to go until Christmas, and you've still got gifts to buy for the techies on your list? No problem. Here are some gifts that Austin tech workers told us they'd like to find under the tree or in a stocking this year.
--Name: Charlie Thompson
Job: Chip design manager at Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Dream gift: Bushnell Speedster speed gun
Let the record show that Charlie Thompson likes gadgets. A lot.
How else would you explain the 30 to 40 Geiger counters he has at home, such as the one shown at right? Or the homemade earthquake detector (a seismometer)? Or the "spud gun," which uses compressed air to launch potatoes at targets up to 500 feet away? So the 49-year-old, chip design manager at Silicon Laboratories Inc. has given careful thought to what new gadget he might like for Christmas.
One choice is the $235 Speedster speed gun made by Bushnell Corp. Some baseball fans buy speed guns to track how fast a pitcher throws. And stock-car ...
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