From the Plinky prompt: "Here's $1000. Spend it in the next hour or lose it. No online shopping allowed."

iPad & Friends

Ah, the old "Brewster's Millions" conundrum, rescaled for the current economy, huh?

There's an Apple store five minutes from where I work. The high-end iPad would take care of almost all of it. A good cover and some peripherals would take care of the rest.