1. Associate Managing Editor Marie Drucker: Roomba Intelligent Sweeper Vac. I must have this for Christmas. The dust bunnies have taken over our home, and this will root them out of their hiding places.

2. Foundation for Future Technology Leaders scholarship winner Johnson Nguyen: The Geode Origami Mobile Communicator, so I won't get confused as to which mobile device on my belt is ringing.

3. Senior Technology Editor Dave Molta: Garmin Rino 110 combination GPS and FRS/GMRS radio. This allows interactive unlicensed voice communications at distances of up to five miles and functions as an integrated global positioning system so you know where you are. Best of all, it integrates the two, so you can use the radio to broadcast your position to another person who has the same device.

4. Editor/Operations Amy Lipton: An ocean blue pearl Audi TT Luxury Coupe. Just look at it. Do you have to ask why?

5. Executive Editor Bruce Boardman: My missing Y and U keys.

Intel: A cement mixer so the company can better manage its "groundbreaking" technology.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: A free massage and a year's supply of chamomile tea.

Former IBM and current Carlyle Group chairman Lou Gestner: The use of our Cayman Islands bank account, number ...

Dell: Its own sandbox to play in instead of everyone else's.

Sun: Novell, so that Sun can finally offer a real directory service.

Novell: Sun, so that Novell can finally offer an operating system that people like to run.

Microsoft: A full workweek without YAB (yet another bug) found in Internet Explorer.