They are also big culture hackers, having offered a bounty for the first person to hack Microsofts Kinect, produced a series of hacker scout badges, and come up with a concept for a Lego set for geek girls. The plushies are tied to Adafruits Circuit Playground app.

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The newest product from open-source hardware leader Adafruit Industries, the plushies are meant to enthrall the young hacker in your life.

Its a little late for Christmas presents, but if you throw a little time-machine action into the mix, this might be the perfect gift for the hacker kid in your life: Circuit Playground plushies.

MHO the Resistor is one of the six Circuit Playground plushies from Adafruit Industries.

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As Adafruit wrote about the new plushies on its Web site, We know its hard to fGifts for Kids Circuit Playground plushies a perfect post-Xmas toy for hacker kidsigure exactly what will spark a young mind on to the journey towards science, technology, engineering,new york asian escort model art, math and more -- we wish we had these when were young.

The plushies are the newest product from Adafruit Industries, a leader in the open-source hardware world and the maker of a wide range of products for hackers young and old. Led by Entrepreneur magazines entrepreneur of the year Limor Fried, Gifts for Kids Adafruit has a long history of promoting the do-it-yourself movement, and giving those who play and work in it the tools they need.

There are six plushies -- Cappy the Capacitor, Hans the 555 Timer chip, MHO the Resistor, Connie the Transistor, Ruby the Red LED, and Gus the Green LED.

Daniel TerdimanDaniel Terdiman is a senior writer at CNET News covering Twitter, Net culture, and everything in between.