Cash in an envelope is practical, but rarely memorable. You'll do much better with a gift that shows you know how the recipient spends their days. That is exactly what this category is sorted for: the binary wristwatch leaves the uninitiated baffled, while insiders decode the time at a glance, and there's an IT upgrade version too. "Stay away from Server" looks great at the data centre, "Definition: Engineer" sums up the profession perfectly, and "Encryption" and "Jesus saves" cater to that special sense of humour you only find really funny after a few years in the field. Not everything here is meant to be worn. "Plant.zip.zip" comes as a design and as a tin sign, and "Binary Tree" plays with the same double meaning between botany and data structure. For desks where dust collects in the gaps between the keys, there's Cyber Clean, and "Floppy Disks" is a reminder that the save icon was once a physical object. If you'd rather build than operate, Elektro-Plüsch and the tech surprise box provide new material, and the computer science bundle combines several classics at once. "Coincidence" and the dino curve take on the diagrams that statistics lectures have struggled with for years. And "Women in Science" is a book about twenty female pioneers of science that surprisingly often stays on the shelf instead of being passed on. Whether it's a birthday, Christmas, a passed exam or a thank you after a long night at the server, sorting by profession takes the searching off your hands. You know what the person does, the rest follows. For colleagues in development, it's worth a detour to the gifts for computer scientists, while people with root access are better served by
gifts for IT admins. If the lab matters more than the server room, head to the
gifts for scientists. And if the job really gives you nothing to go on,
gift ideas by hobby sorts by what happens after work.When the job decides the gift
From tin signs to build kits
For colleagues, bosses and people with jargon
