tech-nickel genius 

n. derogatory term for someone who has very cheap or outdated audiovisual or computer equipment.

There's no danger of watching 3-D movies at my house! My husband, the tech-nickel genius, soldered a new vacuum tube into the betamax.

Some tech-nickel genius from IT installed my firewall backwards so the only e-mail I get is spam and porn.

tech-nickel genius by gnostic1 September 18, 2010