If you’re going to be gifting gadgets and games, it wouldn’t be right to leave them patterned in fluffy snowmen. Here’s our top five must have’s for wrapping prezzies for the geek in your life this Christmas.
1. QR code wrapping paper
This is tech perfection: wrapping paper printed in QR codes that take you through to Christmas videos and greetings when scanned with an appropriate app. Snap it up to put the icing on the cake of a cross-platform Christmas. The pretty QR pattern even looks like snowflakes.
£19 (incl. shipping) | QRappingPaper
2. PrankPack iArm
If you’re a cheap geek with a sense of humour, get hold of one of these prank boxes and watch the look of excitement fall from their faces when they realise this is not an Apple product, it’s just a nifty gift box.
£11.50 incl. shipping | PrankPack
3. Tweet Wrap
Turn your tweets into wrapping paper, or plot a hashtag on wrapping paper, this bit of festive fun from Samsung has six patterns to choose from, and let’s you order a roll, and show it off on Twitter. Unfortunately this one’s US only.
$6.95 | Tweet Wrap
4. World of Warcraft wrapping paper
This is the most geeky of all the above techie wrapping solutions. Admittedly it’s not Christmas themed, but there’s no Christmas in World of Warcraft, and accuracy is everything when it comes to MMOG. Choose your team: Alliance or Horde. Careful to get the allegiance right though, or you’ll ruin Christmas day, like buying an Arsenal fan a Man Utd shirt.
£3.99 | Jinx (Alliance/Horde)
5. Laser precision scissors
Now you’ve got your wrapping paper, do make sure you’ve got the tools for the job. These laser guided scissors are perfect for wrapping geeky presents in geeky wrapping paper. You wouldn’t want to mess up those right angles now would you?
$15.99 | ThinkGeek
