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"The gift-giving season is upon us! While we've given you Nerd Holiday\u00A0and the\u00A0Ultimate Robot Gift Guide, we've got one more nerdy trick up our sleeves for inspiration: Meet Curisma, a social media inspired network of geeky gifts and gadgets.\r\n\r\nCurisma bills itself as a new way to discover products you love through people like you.\u00A0The site launched in beta this past October as a\u00A0recommendation\u00A0engine for cool gadgets and tasteful people to follow. The name Curisma is a blend of curiosity, curating and charisma. &amp;quot;It's curious people curating charismatic products,&amp;quot; explains Curisma's CEO Fatma Yalcin.\r\n\r\nI first met founder Yalcin (pictured below) at\u00A0the launch of the NY Angel Dinner\u00A0Series, an event hosted by\u00A0Victoria Song of\u00A0Flybridge Capital Partners. Yalcin is a Turkish entrepreneur with an MBA from MIT who met her co-founder Eugene Gorelik\u00A0in a class called Web\u00A03.0.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe company is currently bootstrapping it. Yalcin tells me that she's interested in partnering with search and media companies and having those companies set up pages on Curisma. For example, The Next Web would be a brand you would follow for curated tech gadgets.\r\n\r\nWhile lacking the aesthetic\u00A0sophistication of competitors\u00A0Pinterest and Svpply, it's hard not to draw comparisons in terms of functionality. Part of the reason being that Yalcin was an intern at Svpply when the company was based in Boston, MA. Yalcin says the company will expand into other verticals after gadgets and hire designers to spruce up the site in the coming months. &amp;quot;For now, it's just two geeky co-founders coding away,&amp;quot; says Yalcin.\r\n\r\nWe found a few really awesome gift ideas while perusing Curisma today. Check them out below!\r\n\r\nKeybird\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHan Solo Ice Tray\r\n\r\nYoda USB Protector\r\n\r\nMoshi Moshi handset\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Curisma"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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