i definitely give things names. usually tv or movie related, but not always. my ipad is Pablo, my main ipod is Gormagon (4G nano), but i also have Lucy (3G red nano), dewey (3G black nano), and Bruce Leeroy (5G video).

i also name computers, cars, and my favorite hammer is Thor.

I hate to admit it, but I do have one item that has a name: Xeno my KitchenAid stand mixer, because it looks like a Xenomorph which are the aliens from the movie aliens. :)

My ipod is called Fox Mulder. Makes me glad every time I connect him to itunes!

My husband & I chose the theme of Parks & Recreation because we love the show so much. Our network is "Pawnee", his computer is "Shoe Shine Stand", my computer is "Snake Hole Lounge", & my 32g iPod Touch is awaiting it's Pawnee inspired name. :)

I typically name my comps. My iMac is named Calypso and Macbook is named Artemis. My olllllllld Windows 98 piece of crap was named Loki.

Haven't taken to naming other tech, though.

I am SUCH a nerd, but all of my devices, since the very first iPod i owned, have had the names of Original Star Treck characters:

USS Enterprise (iMac), Capt. James T Kirk (500GB External), Mr. Spock (iPhone), Sulu (GPS), Chekov (Nintento DS), Bones (4GB Flash Drive), Redshirt (1GB Flash Drive), Spock Prime (30GB iPod Video), Uhura (Camera SD Card)

also, wallpapers, rigntones, ect. correspond to their name as well. (i am way too organized with this...)

and stupid iPhone auto correct has miss spelled "Trek" making me look bad, haha!

My Iphone's name is 'Phoney'. pretty boring. BUT, I do name my remotes. Big Guy, Skinny Guy, Little Grey, Little Blackie... makes looking for them easier. ie: "Hey, have you seen Skinny Guy?"

While I've always named my cars and house plants, I'm not a gadget namer. My iPod has a name (Tina) because I was prompted for one when I first synced it with iTunes, but I don't call it by name when referring to it.

All of my electronics are named after Stargate Characters.

My iPad is named iPaddington, after Paddington Bear! :) And my fiance's iPad is iPadme, a Star Wars reference!

When I was 15 and setting up my first laptop, it asked me what I wanted to name the C drive. Everyone leaves that blank. I filled it with "Bob". My computer is Bob. My flash drives are all versions of Bob (Bob jr., little Bob, Bob's thumb) and needless to say, i have an iBob as well.

I have an awful habit of naming everything. My computer is Henri, the scanner is Jaque, my externals are Zoidberg, Fry and Bender, the Phantom Floppy Drive is Eric, the iPod is Schnookums, box fan is Antonio (because he keeps us cool on hot summer nights..), etc.

I feel like a nerd for writing this, but I name my gadgets. It used to be a random process, either a character from a movie I'd recently watched or an 80's character. My first job out of college I worked IT and my boss (who became and friend and mentor) named his stuff after Transformers. I used to watch the cartoon, but I wasn't the biggest fan. He passed away a year after I left that company, so in his honor, I started use his naming scheme. It's fun now and I try to pick names that represent what the device does, sometime I just pick them because they sound cool! Examples are: smokescreen (tivo), metroplex (nas), jazz (music hdd), meister (backup music hdd), rewind (old ipod), blaster (new ipod), six gun (ps3), scamper (htpc), over ride (4g hotspot), & alpha prime (network). When I get a new toy I can spend 1-60 minutes looking up character list and picking the right name!

I mean, most things that are computery are required to have names (ipods, etc) so I have names on those. But I also have a Roomba named Rosie.

Are "Damn Phone" and "Stupid Computer" names?

Hallelujah! There are more people like me! :-) I name many of the most used items at home. The Garmin is Jill (the name of the voice I use). My laptop is Tess (no reason, just liked the name). Other things have names too, but not everything.

I also name houseplants. I live with Herman, Bee, and Pokey.

I give a name to all my devices, though I don't talk about them with "names". All the names are related to scifi movies or series. Some of my gadgets are called: Serenity, Caprica, Tardis, Hal 9000, Madre (Alien), CCP (Tron, don't know the equivalent from the original), etc. That way, when I connect them via Bluetoooth or to an USB port I know that one is mine.

My Bernina 180 sewing machine is named Stevie Ray because when he boots up he sounds just like the first couple notes of Little Wing. Bet you can't guess what my Featherweight Singer sewing machine is named. ;-)

I definitely name devices. Initially, it was because we needed some way for all of us to identify one another's computers on our network but it's become a nice way to differentiate between the multiple devices in the house that aren't on the network as well (e.g., my iPod as opposed to my roommate's).

The MacBook is Lorentz, the iPod is Euler, the external hard drive is Gödel and the desktop I'm planning to build will be Ada.

Yup, technology gets named for mathematicians/physicists. We do have a cat named Foucault, but he's named for the philosopher, not the physicist. (The other cat is Nietzsche.)

I will spend a good thirty minutes trying to find the best name for my gadgets but, I didn't originally intend for them all to have a theme. My shuffle was the project (red) so I called her Scarlet. Then came my iPhone which was dubbed Watson and after that I started using references from Sherlock Holmes. My laptop is Lestrade and the network is BakerStreet. I sometimes call my car Elaine (It's an elantra) but not that often.

I absolutely name gadgets. My hard drives, my computer, my phone, etc. Everything's named after mythological entities (mostly greco-roman, but I don't always restrict myself to a single pantheon).

My iPod is Apollo (among other things, the god of music), my hard drives are Pegasus and Tulpar (both flying horses), my wireless router is Aether, a couple flash drives named Nyx and Khaos...

I have a set of flash drives that I diverged a bit with - Sol, Terra, and Luna. They're all identical designs, but Luna's the smallest of the three.

I name cars and guitars. I did name one of my vine plants Sylvia, after the vine-covered Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver.

My Toyota Yaris is affectionately named "Murray," like the Murray pedal cars of the 40s and 50s. He's the best.

Cars - Grimace & Vinnie. Laptops - Henry & Patrick. iPhones - Flat Stanley & Rocco. iPods - Chuck & Giles.

Clearly, I have issues :(

Absolutely. The Macbook is named The Guide, and my iPod touch is called iPod Beeblebrox. My Nokia is called Ford Prefect.

My bike is affectionately known as Arthur.

My first little gray laptop was named Charlotte (after the spider). I now have one with a trippy black and white design, so she's Lucy. The phone is Claude, the car is Oz.

Everything is named, and for Joss Whedon characters. It started with a MacBook Pro called Willow and spread from there. I've used Giles for a printer, Spike and Drusilla for PCs, Angel and Angelus for the two partitions of a backup drive, Tara and Dawn for camera cards, Joss himself for the good camera, Xander and Lorne for iPods, Fred for my iDisk, River and Gunn for USB keys, Faith and Zoë and Wash for my wireless networks, Kaylee ("shiny!") for my iPhone, and most recently Book for my iPad. Proud of that one.

The IBM is Ogden (after Ogden Nash, and when our testing and commissioning manager got his IBM, we refered to it as Son of Ogden, Junior for short).
The Mac is Nikki (after Nikola Tesla).
The iPod is Clio (after an ROV a friend used to run).

When my old Oreck died a few months ago, I bought a Eureka as a stop-gap replacement. Since I'm a fan of the show of the same name, I call it Fargo.

like everyone here I do name my device with obvious and less obvious names.
My iMac is called 909
My power book is called LONE STAR (I bought it for my trip to texas!)
My first iPhone was called PARMINDER (cos' I love PARMINDER NAGRA - the actress)
Then my second Iphone 3G was Mr. WHITE (that's obvious) and now my 3rd. one is called DARTH VADOR (obvious!)
All the three external drive are named: Mr. BIG, Mr. VERY BIG and BIG BOY and my small 4G flash drive is named GIGI (don't ask me why, I still don't know).
My iPOD was named LOVE (cos my husband give it to me for a birthday - LOVE passed away some years ago)
One of our powerbook titanium is called MUSIC for obvious reason and the iPad is of course PADDINGTON (lame?)
My husband called his iPhone BIJOU (weird!)
and the first flat screen is called STEEVE THE TV in reference to an episode of friends.

I realized I haven't named the second flat screen nor the remote and that I should start to think of a name for our kitchen aid alien like mixer!

My iMac's external hard drives are named after Mr. Show lines/characters: superstar machine, pit-pat, and mother father chinese dentist.

My boyfriend calls his Chevy Impala "piece of shit", but that's more of a description instead of a nickname.

K.I.S.S.

All my computers have been variations of Stan...the first, the second, the third....Stan Jr for a laptop....etc.

All my small electronics are variations of "Slick" (Originally purchased a Zune 30GB...called it Slick, IPod shuffle 4GB is SlickMini, IPhone 16GB is SlickJr)

Oh and my gold Honda Accord is "Goldie Hawn Da". She's an older acting car, which is still looking GOOD (bought at Goodson Honda, and removed the 'son' from the sticker), from Japan. She's been featured in such films as The First Car Club and Wildcars. :)

*whew* Not the only one!

My current laptop is PJ, named after the main character of the TV show "My Boys", and partly for Ted's assistant in an episode of "How I Met Your Mother."

My Jeep Wrangler is named Fiero, again, after "How I Met Your Mother", because she's "kind of a tranny car" and I use both pronouns to describe him, and because I hope she's someday the "friggin' giving tree of cars."

As a crafter, I also have a vintage damask-covered bust named Estelle (though I call her Stella), and a dressform named Eleanor. My sewing machine has yet to get a name.

This is fun! And, maybe helpful . . .

My first iPhone was fittingly christened for (Family Guy's) Stewie's intimate and dearly loved friend, an anthropomorphic teddy bear called Rupert.

My iPhone 3GS was then named Rupert Paul II, or RuPaul for short. I also used pangendered pronouns to describe him/her, so it kinda fit.

Sadly, RuPaul recently disappeared on a vacation to Vegas (ne'er to return), possibly too consumed by the city's vices to resume a normal life with me. In any case, after a long search, and now a suitable mourning period, I think I'm finally ready to move on. Does anyone have any suggestions for naming the newbie?

My 24" iMac's name is Optimus Prime. My CSI Windy netbook is Sil*. My iPod is Claire. My first mac, which I bought new in '97, and I no longer own, it's name was Ripley.

*from the movie Species

I'm a bit superstitious about naming things because three days after I named my first car, someone ran a red light and totaled it (and almost me, too). I did, however, christen my ipod Bob when prompted by iTunes, and my newest flash drive is named Fluffy, since my old one, which I still use, got my last name. I like to choose cheesy or really obvious names for objects. One of the scholars at the NEH institute I attended in July was highly amused that my flash drive was named Fluffy.

Izzie the iPhone
Igor the iPod
Harry the Honda
Nellie the Nissan