Holiday gift ideas for engineers

As the shadow of Black Friday passes behind us, almost everybody looking forward to the upcoming holidays. Typical Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza plans include putting a little hope under someone else’s tree.
The shops try to benefit from this.There’s positive outlook for holiday sales this year and consumers are making their purchases across multiple channels. It seems that shopping is moving more and more on-line. According to Deloitte’s holiday survey, shoppers who visit stores as well as online and mobile destinations are expected to spend 75% more on holiday purchases than those who only shop in stores. With high expectations come high demands for supply chain logistics.
Before you can start to stress-test your supplier’s logistics channels, you need to figure out what to buy. Several magazines and on-line sources have publisher articles to give tips what to buy. Here are some probably worth to take a look if you have not already decided what you want to buy:

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Raseone Gift

Maybe besides giving gifts to your friends and relatives, it would be a good idea to give some money to those in need. Giving the gift of engineering article tells that besides international programs like American Friends Service Committee, Heifer International, and Doctors Without Borders, there’s a new breed of “geek philanthropy” groups like for example Engineers Without Borders. Geek philanthropy takes many forms but the common denominator is using technology to empower people and improve their ability to make a future for themselves.

2 Comments

  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Chocolate chips. Now that the most obvious pun is out of the way, here’s how you make DIP8 cookie cutters.

    An EE’s Christmas cookies
    https://hackaday.io/page/1407-an-ees-christmas-cookies

    Some cutting and bending

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  2. Tomi Engdahl says:

    The best Christmas gift ideas for tech lovers
    Updated The top tech gifts available this holiday season
    http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2436678/the-best-christmas-gift-ideas-for-tech-lovers

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