For holiday relief look at these:

From llrx.com comes The Wacky World of Gadgets: the 70s and Beyond! (ppt).

At the recent Internet Librarian 2004, the closing keynote session on gadgets was presented by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt.

From Cool Tools comes this link to a Wired Tests review on all sorts of things (8.2mb download).