Design Whiz Gifts

"Richard P. Ruggles—a man and his mantelpiece."

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

"Google car."

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

Evolution.

Multi-tasking.

Need Supercomputer to finish my PhD, Please Help.

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

Gadget geek.

Hamlet's struggle with online shopping addiction. To eBay or not to eBay.

Nerd tryouts.

'I'm designing a robot that'll do my drafting homework for me,'

'WE use these computers to gather and organise data for our school district and, on a slow day, to play solitaire.'

'Yep,that's it Mr.White. And NOW go, Control-Alt-Delete, then re-enter.'

"Don’t you eyeball me, Ed! That’s right, look down at the table. Only technicians who remember to back up the data can look at me! And if you start to cry I will fire you!"

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

'My dog ate my computer.'

STRIP Hambone: Workers help is a hindrance

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

"Oh! It's you! I was expecting the machine."

'I wrote a software program and sold it for two million dollars.'

"I hate you! You don't understand me and you don't understand my software!"

"After a long day at the office writing business software...Bob loves to relax writing game software."

'Those enormous worldwide internet communities.'

Otto the SmartyCar!

It's important to women that a man has a good relationship with his mother. Why's that? House of Java .Net Cybercafe. Because how a man treats his mother is a good indicator of how he'll treat a girlfriend. That's why I created an app that calls your phone and displays a photo of you hugging your mom whenever a gorgeous lady is within three feet of you. It also displays a nice, sweet lady whenever you're within three feet of your mom.

Technologies and distance classes

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

'I'm afraid you've failed the Turing test.'

"There's an app that helped me finish grades 3 through 7. If you need me, I'll be in my room playing video games for the next few years."

Paper to boy: 'Did you forget something? I'm your take home test.'

"The results are impressive, but it'll be decades before we can transmit and receive pornography."

'...And, from what I understand, they don't have any hard drive at all.'

'Normally, this project would require weeks of research and verification...but luckily there's an app for it.'