Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: Features

Media Credit: Photo Courtesy of girlsgonegeek.tv Maria, a member of the 'Girls Gone Geek' podcast group, poses with drumsticks from 'Rock Band.'

As finals approach, the Fall semester isn't the only thing College students are thinking about wrapping up. It's time to start thinking about gifts for the holidays. Guys, are you having trouble thinking of a gift for that special someone in your life? Girls, do you need ideas for your wish list? Well, don't fret. The girls from the hit iTunes podcast, "Girls Gone Geek," have brainstormed a list of chic tech ideas for college girls this holiday season.

The show begins with funny skits, some of which are more "geeky" than others. Each girl contributes to the discussion by creating her own segment relating to her interests. For the holiday season, the girls have created a list of the 10 best tech holiday gifts for college girls. Each girl chose both a "Penny Pincher" gift (under $250) and a more expensive "Taj Mahal" gift for the list.

Staci DeGagne, the podcast's producer, chose two practical gifts for the list: the highly portable, easy to clean Aerobie Aeropress Expresso Maker for $20 and the Dahon Glide P8 foldable bicycle for compact dorm storage for $849.95.

Heather Maclean, who has with a degree in art history from University of California, Berkeley, focused on recycling old technologies with an artistic eye. She enjoys everything from vintage gadgets and games to pixelized photographs and the Pixel Cam. The gifts she added to the list involve creativity and patience.

At $250, the Lego Mindstorm NXT Robot Kit offers the opportunity to creatively build and program a robot, and is great for engineering majors. Or for a girl with a more sensitive side, there's Pleo, an adorable programmable dinosaur robot by Ugobe for $349.99.

With her dream of becoming a journalist, Asiana Ponciano loves to bring fashion, design and culture into the mix. Her topics include fashionable gadget accessories and reviews of obscure, tech-related movies. She added to the list an $87 Mickey Mouse-shaped 1 gigabyte iRiver MP3 player and cube-shaped Griffin Evolve Wireless iPod speakers for $300.

The show's sci-fi geek, Maria Bernal-Silva, a lover of comics and video games, is always updated on spy-fi and sci-fi TV shows, movies and comics. She has discussed the new "Star Trek" movie and has compared the movie "30 Days of Night" to the comic book on which it was based. Bernal-Silva included an Eton FR300 Emergency Crank Radio with a built-in flashlight and cell phone charger for $50 and the iWear Series VUZIX, glasses with a personal virtual display screen starting at $199.

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