Over the course of my geek life, I have collected and used many gadgets.  Some have been good and some have been bad.  To shed light on what makes a gadget good in the eyes of a geek, I give you “The 10 Commandments of Geek Gadgetry.”

I. Thou shalt use a standard plug (preferably USB).  I cannot tell you how convenient it is to have gadgets that use standard plugs for power and to interface with a PC or other piece of hardware.  It just makes life so much better when something fails or if you have to, God forbid, …

I believe I have found my next car.  The Acura RDX!  And for all the geek reasons!

Right now, I have two cars: an Isuzu Rodeo Sport (affordable, but bad mileage) and a Honda S2000 (testosterone nirvana!).  Neither is blessed with an abundance of geek goodness.  Heck, the interior of the S2000 is very spartan.  Some S2000 afficionados even feel that the car is so purely a race car that it shouldn’t even have a radio!  But I digress.

As such, I have decided that my next automobile purchase will be based on geeky goodness.  That means all the creature comforts I …

Picked up the Mio DigiWalker C220 GPS yesterday.  Not a bad little unit, but it isn’t necessarily the Holy Grail of GPS units.

One of my favorite video podcasts is InDigital with Hahn Choi, Wil Wheaton, and Jessica Corbin (mmmmm, Jessica Corbin).  A few episodes back, Wil Wheaton (yes, THAT Wil Wheaton) reviewed the Mio DigiWalker GPS system and gave it a great review.  My TomTom 700 is getting a little long in the tooth, so I figured I could use a new GPS.  And at less than $200 (Amazon price $180), how could I go wrong?

But let’s back up.  Wil …