Anyone who has picked up Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy can tell you that the author really loved his technology.  In fact, the gadgets and gizmos and home furnishing in the three books are almost characters in and of themselves, thanks to Larsson’s long, loving paragraphs of description about the makes, specs, and vintages of various things that fill the home of characters like Lisbeth Salander.

For those interested, or those that can’t instantly place a gadget to its name, the fine folks at Engadget have put together The Girl With The Insanely Long Gear List, a complete collection of the gadgets in Larsson’s world AND a gallery of appropriate images.  It’s like looking into Apple’s past, given Larsson’s Mac-centric nature.  There are also page citations for those playing the home game.

Not to be outdone, the fine folks at Apartment Therapy have put together their own version of Lisbeth Salander’s shopping cart with Lisbeth Salander’s IKEA Shopping List.  Once again, it’s a complete list of the stuff she was spending her kroner on, completely with pictures of the stuff no longer available and links to the stuff that you can buy (just in case you want to make your own Millennium Trilogy room in your house).  Even better than Engadget’s page citations are Apartment Therapy’s book citation, giving the appropriate passages with links inserted into the text!

For the record, I’ve not read any of the books.  Are they good?  Anyone with an opinion, feel free to speak up.