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Desktop toys: In this office, you are the boss

By Mark W. Kaelin November 17, 2006, 4:07 AM PST

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The holiday season is approaching fast. In fact, it seems to approach faster every year. For those of you in the giving spirit around the office, it can be difficult to find that special gift for the person on the other side of the cubicle wall. It cannot be too expensive and it should reflect a certain amount of lightheartedness and fun. I mean, after all, gift giving in an office environment is really about generating smiles and feelings of goodwill with your co-workers.
With that spirit in mind, TechRepublic has acquired several inexpensive yet tasteful and useful desktop toys for review. One of these fine gadgets or gizmos should appeal to even the most difficult to buy for in your office.
Next on our gift list is a The Cubes IT Set courtesy of Perpetual Kid.

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Desktop toys: In this office, you are the boss

The Cubes IT Set features a stereotypical help desk / IT troubleshooter and his tricked out cubicle.

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The IT Set is only one of the many Cubes Sets you can get. You can make your own office and then run it like Michael Scott in The Office (aka, Steve Carell).

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There are lots of parts in the box, but I think I can handle the construction.

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Um, at least I think I can put this together.

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The choice of stickers from which you can customize your cube is the best part. I particularly like the mug shot of Bill Gates and the image of World of Warcraft you can use for the computer monitor.

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My decorating is minimalist, but the geekness still shines through.

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Desktop toys: In this office, you are the boss

Of course, your IT guy is a UNIX nerd. You can move the arms, legs and head, but be careful — I accidentally removed his arm when I was trying to get the pose. Fortunately, the arm went back on easily enough.

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A nice geek touch is the captain’s chair from the original Star Trek television series. Scotty, I need more power!

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Ah-ha, caught you red-handed playing World of Warcraft during work hours.

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All in all, the Cubes IT Set makes a nice little addition to the swag and gadgets that adorn cubicle desktops these days (at least if you are talking about my desktop).

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