Adjective : a gee-whiz technology; a gee-whiz reaction to the sight of the Grand Canyon. From Dictionary.com.
The CNN gee-whiz holograms were hardly ready for prime time. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Schwartzberg: I Suffer From Campaign Withdrawal] Reference
Why aren't companies already churning out these gee-whiz gadgets?. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Your Body (And Soul) Wired] Reference
Volt's gee-whiz interior, gauges and controls should impress buyers. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Parker: GM Sets Volt Price While Toyota Delays US-Built Prius] Reference
There is a gee-whiz quality not only in the press but in the public. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2003] Reference
The tone was gee-whiz and, for the most part, predictably self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Saddam Snubbed at Time Bash] Reference
But unlike many gee-whiz technologies, there's no doubt that this one works. From Wordnik.com. [Hatching New Ideas] Reference
Young guys can think a lot of things are gee-whiz ... for about five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [SanDisk's New SlotMusic: But Why?] Reference
Every gee-whiz digital breakthrough happens in a social and political context. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Solomon: The Hollow Media Promise of Digital Technology] Reference
Gave our fellow a bloody great envelope full of shit-hot, gee-whiz intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
For readers -- at least, for this one -- all this gee-whiz wonderment falls flat. From Wordnik.com. [Kathryn Schulz: Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto] Reference
It 'a particularly effective deflation of the gee-whiz view of all things digital. From Wordnik.com. [The Jargon Jungle] Reference
With AdMob, it is not buying gee-whiz technology or a popular consumer destination. From Wordnik.com. [AdMob Is “Approaching A $100 Million” Revenue Run-Rate. Google Thinks It Can Be Billions.] Reference
There was also a gee-whiz factor about humans first entering and exploring the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean research funding gap] Reference
He added that slotMusic "tested well with young guys who liked the gee-whiz factor.". From Wordnik.com. [SanDisk's New SlotMusic: But Why?] Reference
"I can't tell you why they haven't caught him with all their gee-whiz toys," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes or Villains?] Reference
This is all gee-whiz kind of numbers, but certainly nobody in Florida wants to hear it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004] Reference
Roberts would appear to be an unlikely guy to hasten the arrival of cable's gee-whiz age. From Wordnik.com. [Cable's Quiet Mogul] Reference
The best part of "Aliens of the Deep" is watching how gee-whiz excited you get down there. From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
So the Enquirer reinvented itself, this time as a purveyor of so-called gee-whiz journalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Ur-Text of a Tabloid Age] Reference
"People are looking and are now expecting to see some gee-whiz consumer-electronic features in their cars.". From Wordnik.com. [Auto makers plan to showcase digital gadgets in Las Vegas] Reference
OTOH with both characters and good stories and the technological "gee-whiz", well it does not really cut it. From Wordnik.com. [Hard or Soft SF?] Reference
Why does this matter, other than giving a gee-whiz moment to Kindle veterans and consumer-electronics editors?. From Wordnik.com. [The Kindle 2 has landed – and it’s stunningly simple to set up] Reference
Because of this constant gee-whiz overtone, Sassy is unable to sound sincere when it deals with serious issues. From Wordnik.com. [Cropduster Issue #1] Reference
In other words: beneath Booker's bright-eyed, "gee-whiz" exterior, a chess player's mind has always been operating. From Wordnik.com. [Van Jones: Rise of Cory Booker: NYTimes Misses the Point] Reference
The first was Silicon Graphics, a hardware firm that produces a lot of the gee-whiz computerized effects in movies. From Wordnik.com. [Billion-Dollar Babies] Reference
I have bombarded you with a lot of gee-whiz numbers today - a billion dollars for this, another three billion for that. From Wordnik.com. [Energy: The New Challenges and Opportunities] Reference
The gee-whiz gadgetry doesn't produce much information that is useful to the academic community, and that is a big loss. From Wordnik.com. [Television: Finding Treasure and Losing History] Reference
Twitter has been hyped, obsessively covered by "gee-whiz!" journalists (O.K., including us), and even studied by experts. From Wordnik.com. ['Twitter Sucks!' The Backlash Begins] Reference
Maybe the networks could figure out a gee-whiz virtual-reality hologramish way to depict issues, as well as election results. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Shearer: How to Come Down From Euphoria] Reference
Yes, Zune has surpassed itunes in graphic gee-whiz for something that doesn't need, and shouldn't be gee-whiz graphics focused. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
At a very superficial level it's a gee-whiz, rock-em, sock-em, 3-D science fiction extravaganza - i.e. chewing-gum for the mind!. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: "AVATAR" - An allegory] Reference
Enough of those kinds of gee-whiz moments abound in Half-Life 2 to inspire awe at what developer Valve has accomplished technically. From Wordnik.com. [Gamers Rewarded With Another Life] Reference
Basically -- and this is a "gee-whiz" statistic -- we've lost one bank a day, every day, for 25 years, which is over 9,000 institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Richard Bove] Reference
What was a little gee-whiz piece set off a national debate when Alderman Joe Moore read it and decided to try to ban foie gras in Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [Who Moved My Skull and Crossbones?] Reference
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