The great thing about tech is that it’s small, sleek and portable. But this isn’t always a huge advantage as I discovered on spending a Christmas with some friends. This year had been pretty good to me and for once in my life I was able to lash out a bit on gifts and of course as a tech obsessed Geek I veered heavily toward techie presents.
Have you ever see those old films where someone stumbles up to the front door laden with huge boxes of gifts – well it looks good doesn’t it. Unfortunately my gifts being of the micro chip variety did not look quite as impressive.
In fact a huge amount of my budget went on an Iphone for the lady of my life and a couple of Ipods for nephews and nieces. For my uncle and his wife I bought a subscription to a UK based proxy which I’d printed out the details. Add to this a couple of Xbox and PS3 games and I’d spent quite a bit. Unfortunately my present pile was hardly enough to make a bulge in small carrier bag in fact I could have easily held it all in my pocket to be honest.
So just remember all you technical suppliers of super sleek goods, you don’t have to make the packaging that small. Yes of course, I understand about global warming and using Earths resources but would a bigger box for the Ipod really do that much more harm than Sting visiting his luxury villas strewn across the world!
If you don’t do this I’m going to have to spoil all your super neat packaging by buying a big cardboard box and placing my gifts in those. Yes it is completely unneccesary but at least I won’t be asked – ‘didn’t you bother with presents then’ next year !