For those of you still wondering what Christmas present to buy for the geek in your life, NMK has come to the rescue, or has it? We asked our writers, speakers and friends, and some big wigs in new media, for their digital Christmas wishes, all some of them want is some sleep...

Matt Locke, head of innovation, BBC
I hope that we will see more technologies coming onto the market that tackle the environmental impact of technology, using alternate power sources, encouraging recycling of components after use, and limiting power wastage. I'd also like to see technology that tackles simplicity and ease of use, particular for the many people who struggle with screen interfaces and text searches. Accessibility is about making simple products that work for everyone not seeing it as a 'special' category of users.

Sam Michel, managing director, Chinwag
For Christmas I would like a thing that'll let my access my email, website and all my other digital junk wherever I am, using whichever tool I have to hand, be it laptop, mobile phone, PDA, airport web terminal, etc. And if you don't mind me asking for me, I'd love a tool which properly combined email, calendaring, instant messenger, blogging and all the other stuff I do online. Too much? Thought so.

Ross Fergusson, Director, eDemocracy Programme, Hansard Society
My digital wish is for some free wifi across the UK. It's a bit in the spirit of peace on Earth and all that. Otherwise, I wouldn’t mind a Nokia N93 and a copy of Adobe Premiere.

Richard Anson, CEO, Reevoo
Pretty standard stuff from me, two shiny items compete for my wish list - a recordable DVD and hard drive for beneath the TV and a digital SLR - all pre-connected so I do not have to read the instructions... Oh yeah, and most importantly, with the imminent arrival of our second child (could be Christmas day), being able to purchase blocks of sleep online would top the list!

Guido Fawkes, political blogger, www.order-order.com
An MP3 recording of Tony Blair's interview with Yates over the cash for honours scandal please.

Alex Hilton, manging director, Message Space
I'd like a Google Brain - an embedded chip with satellite link to Google HQ. It would enable me to forever shrug off that sense of loss that if feel every time I'm having a conversation with someone but don't have access to Google to confirm facts or remember stuff. Forget software and hardware - wetware is the future.

Tom Armitage, web developer who blogs at infovore.org
A copy of the remarkable Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX would be good. It lets you run any number of Intel operating systems - be it Linux or Windows - at the same time as OSX. The benefits for productivity and testing are obvious. Oh, and of course, a new MacBook Pro to run it on wouldn't go amiss, and if there's room, I'm still hoping that there's a Nintendo Wii at the bottom of my stocking... but let's not be greedy, eh?

Lizzie Jackson, children's consultant in online communities, BBC
To encourage governments across the world to facilitate access to the internet for all.

Stefan Haselwimmer, managing director, Usability Exchange
My Christmas wish? A couple of days off would be nice! We've been flat out since we launched in March. On the web accessibility front, it would be good to see more companies engage with disabled people rather than obsessively following technical guidelines.

Tom Campbell, London Development Agency
A bit pretentious, but I would like the video games equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses, Picasso's Guernica or Citizen Kane - i.e. a self-aware critical masterpiece which challenges and transforms gaming from entertainment into an art form.

Research by Kathryn Corrick