SOLA GO! Smart Digital Pocket Level
$99.97 • Sola • Get Yours Now
One of the most important tools in anyone’s toolbox is their level, but levels are big and unwieldy and the standard spirit bubble levels really don’t do more than tell you if something is level or plumb. That’s why we think the best gift you can get anyone handy on your lift this year is the Sola Go! Smart. This level is precision personified. It’s really more than a level, It’s also an inclinometer and a protractor. We loved the built-in neodymium magnets that make checking angles on pipes effortless and we really loved the fact that the device doesn’t just record the data it measures, it can connect with your phone via Bluetooth and actually send the data to you. The Sola Go! Smart is even smart enough to automatically invert the display when you are measuring angles over your head. When it comes to building things, or home repairs, being off by a degree can mean the difference between a job well done and a job that needs to be redone. A level is essential for almost every project, so why not get the smartest one in the world?
Stubblebuddy
$29.99 • Stubblebuddy • Get Yours Now
This is the kind of gift that’s not just handy, it saves relationships. One of the biggest complaints that partners who share bathrooms have is about the stubble left over after shaving. Let’s face it, when you shave or trim your beard, the little hairs can get everywhere and they are a pain in the butt to clean up. Thankfully the Stubblebuddy is a great solution. It’s a small, USB rechargeable vacuum that quickly sucks up the hair off the counter, leaving your bathroom pretty and your partner happy. A stubble vacuum might not be the sexiest gift you can give this holiday season, but it might be one of the most useful.
Smart EXKY Garden
$189.99 • Veritable • Get Yours Now
There are very few things in life that are more satisfying than growing your own food and technology is making it easier than ever to do it not just in the garden, but on your kitchen counter. We’ve got two great smart garden products to show you this year, starting with the Smart EXKY Garden. We loved the sleek, compact design and the fact that it was pretty much idiot-proof. Water, light, food, It’s called Smart for a reason and it is a great addition to any kitchen or any kid’s STEM education. There’s no better way to appreciate food than to grow it yourself and if you can do that in the middle of winter on your kitchen counter, you can capture someone’s attention for a lifetime.
Zain Side Table with Speaker and Subwoofer
$499.99 • Koble • Get Yours Now
This is definitely on the more extravagant side of gifts this year, but the Zain Side Table from Koble was cool enough that we wanted to bring it up to you. Everyone has a side table, but it’s usually kind of a unitasker. Some have a little storage on them, but they are really just a place to rest a lamp or drink. This is so much more. This side table is an excellent speaker (90w) and subwoofer (40w) that has Bluetooth connectivity. Meanwhile, The top of the table has an area on it that can be used to wirelessly charge your phone. If you don’t have a device that can be wirelessly charged, or if you need to plug in a lamp that has USB capability, there’s a built-in outlet for that as well. That’s the functionality of it. Also built into to the top of the table are touch-sensitive buttons that control everything from power and volume to one of several different equalizer settings that can optimize sound for normal, pop, rock, and movie. Now let’s talk about the look. We loved the minimalist design here with the solid wood (Walnut or oak, depending on the color option you choose) table-top, The fabric walls designed to cover the speakers, and not one, but two sets of legs so you can customize the height of the table (6” and 10”). With the color options, this side table fits in perfectly in most any living room, game room, or possibly even bedroom. It sounds great, and it looks even better.
Botanium
$76 • Botanium • Get Yours Now
If you’re looking for an at-home garden solution, but can’t quite swing the price point of the Smark EXKY Garden, the absolute next best thing is Botanium. This hydroponic vase is the perfect way to grow a single plant at a time in your home without the need for sunlight or ever taking it outdoors. As a hydroponic system, it is a great opportunity to teach kids about the future of agriculture without having to deal with soil or any of the other messy parts or traditional gardening. Follow your herbs or peppers from seed to harvest right on your kitchen counter. It’s a great way to get kids involved from the beginning and a perfect springboard to get them excited about cooking when it comes time to pick the fruits of their labor.
Heatsbox Pro
$64.95 • Inspire Ecoware • Get Yours Now
If you have someone in your life who packs their lunch to work every day or who travels a lot. We think that the Heatsbox Pro could be a real lifesaver. This is more than just a lunchbox that keeps your food warm. This thing can actually cook. Like, we actually cooked rice and chicken in it. From scratch. If you are stuck in the office all day and want something heartier than a PB and J sandwich, but don’t want to blow a ton of money on takeout, you can have a literally homecooked meal at your desk. Even if you are having leftovers, you don’t have to take them to the office microwave. The Heatsbox pro warms them up in just minutes. It’s light, it’s easy to clean, and it is super easy to control. All you have to do is connect it to its app and you can control the temperature or even set a timer so that your lunch is hot and ready for you when it’s time for you to take a break. We think the Heatsbox pro is going to revolutionize taking your lunch to work, but it’s also a great companion for people who have to spend a lot of time in hotels for travel but don’t always feel like eating out or getting room service. It’s small enough that you can pack it in a suitcase or carry on, and you essentially have a combination stove/oven with you whenever you go. We loved testing out the Heatsbox and we even had a few different people take it to work with them and cook up a meal for themselves. Everyone loved it and we think it makes an excellent gift!
Oversized XL Giant Clear Wine Glass – 750 ml – Holds a full bottle of wine
$19.99 • SCS Direct • Get Yours Now
If you’re looking for the perfect add-on to the bottle of wine you’re giving someone this holiday season, or you just know someone who really loves an extra-large glass of Rose’, the Oversized XL Giant Clear Wine Glass is perfect. When we say XL, we mean it. This wine glass can hold an entire 750 ml of wine. That’s around the size of a full bottle. Let’s face it, with the way family time has been going for the last year, there’s a good chance that you’ll need this for yourself halfway through Christmas Dinner.
Oversized XL Giant Clear Beer Glass – 53 OZ Holds 4 bottles of beer
$19.99 • SCS Direct • Get Yours Now
If there’s one thing that spending time around family has taught us over the last few years, it’s that one bottle of beer is not going to be enough to get you to sit through a holiday dinner with your uncle who wants to tell you everything that’s wrong with the world. That’s why they’ve created a beer glass that saves you the need to keep getting up for more beer because it holds four bottles worth!
Obol The Original Never Soggy Cereal Bowl
$16.95 • Obol • Get Yours Now
Cereal is undergoing a renaissance right now. There’re even companies out there that will make you custom cereals and ship them to you to order. If you have someone who is serious about their cereal, or even just someone who you know hates it when their rice crispies get so soggy that the snap and crackle has gone out of their pop, the Obol is a great gift to slip under their tree or into their stocking. This bowl is specially designed with two compartments: one for the milk and one for the cereal. As you want more cereal, you just slide it from the top area to milk and you get a perfectly fresh breakfast bite that doesn’t feel like a mouthful of soggy sadness.
Calamityware Serving Platter – Dinosaurs
$62 • Calamityware • Get Yours Now
If you are hosting this holiday, or you want an amazing host gift, you can’t go wrong with a unique and high-quality serving platter. That’s exactly what you’ll get with Calamityware’s Dinosaur Serving Platter. To the casual observer, this might just be another, well-made china platter that measures 14.75″ x 10.25″ (37cm x 26cm), but the longer you look at the beautiful blue design, the more you’ll notice a quaint village that has been completely overrun by dinosaurs on land, in the water, and in the air. Not the kind of things you’d expect to see on a china platter that is made with the same exacting standards that you’d find in museums, but that’s exactly what you get. If you know anyone who would appreciate a unique serving piece or even anyone who just loves dinosaurs, this is a truly awesome gift to consider this holiday season.
Ava X Color Changing LED Lantern with 10W Bluetooth Speaker
$55.19 • Koble • Get Yours Now
This is one of those gifts that is perfect for a friend who likes to spend time in their backyard or on their lanai. Sure, the Ava is good for anyone who needs a good speaker for around the house, but the fact that it’s splash-proof is one of the major reasons that we love this speaker. Another reason is that this isn’t just a light (that can change to a ton of different colors, btw) this is also a wireless, rechargeable 10w speaker. You can plug it in if you want to, but it’s got a handle that makes it perfect for carrying around. It’s the kind of thing that’s perfect for a beach picnic during the day or night, a backyard bbq, or as the perfect color accent on a table in your home. The sound is solid and the light is warm and bright enough to be useful without being so bright that it’s distracting. It hooks up to your phone or device via Bluetooth and is ready to go in an instant for anything from music for your party, or a podcast while you work in the garden or just relax.
Calamityware Mugs: Holiday Things Could Be Worse 20 oz (2-Pack)
$45 • Calamityware • Get Yours Now
The product line that Calamityware put Calamityware on the map is their Things Could Be Worse line. Imagine a fine piece of china with a delicate, museum-quality image melted into it that shows the utter chaos of everything that could possibly be going wrong. Well, this is that, but for Christmas. Robot Santas, Sleighs being flown by dinosaurs, Kaiju gingerbread men running through the city, and more. The longer you look at these mugs, the more holiday disasters will unfold before your eyes… and we can’t think of a better way to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter’s day.
Calamityware Mugs: Things Could Be Worse
$19 • Calamityware • Get Yours Now
When you’re having a bad day, or really any day in the last couple of years, it’s important to remember that things could be worse and there aren’t many more entertaining ways to remember than by looking at one of these amazing mugs from Calamityware.
Star Wars/ The Child Garden Tote W/ Tools
$48.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
If you’ve got a Star Wars gardener in your life, but the Darth Vader tote with seat is a little more than you want to spend, or even worse, they follow the path of the Jedi, you can’t go wrong with the The Child tote with garden tools. The durable canvas bag is decorated with an adorable image of Baby Yoda, enjoying his time among the flowers. To help you get your own flowers growing, the bag also comes with 3 Steel Garden Tools (Broad Face Trowel, Narrow Face Trowel, Cultivator/Hand Rake) with wooden handles. It’s an excellent gift for anyone who loves to garden, but it’s a really special one if they also love adventures that happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away.
Star Wars Mandalorian The Child Stackable Salt and Pepper Shakers
$22.99 • Bioworld • Get Yours Now
If you’re looking for a truly unique Star Wars gift for someone this year, you can pretty much bet that one thing they won’t have is a baby Yoda salt and pepper shaker set. This stackable, ceramic set includes Grogu and his floating bassinet. However, instead of just looking cute, they are useful. Each section can hold salt or ground pepper so that you can season your dinner like they came straight from the spice mines of Kessel!
Nightmare Before Christmas Jack and Sally Country Picnic Basket
$126.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
Nightmare Before Christmas has one of the most devoted fan bases in all of Disney. In fact, if you have someone on your gift guide who loves NBX, there’s no way that you don’t already know. They’ve either sung the soundtrack to you or argued about it being the greatest love story of all time. If you want to get them an NBX gift that they definitely do not have, but will cherish forever, you will want to grab this Jack and Sally country Picnic Basket. It’s just beautiful. What more can we say about it? It’s a wicker basket with a double lid, which happens to be fully adorned with Jack and Sally on the hill on one lid and Eternally yours on the other. Could you imagine a better gift for a couple with some romance in their hearts? Better yet, don’t just give them the picnic basket, fill it with goodies before you do and you have the ultimate gift!
Friends On The Go Lunch Cooler
$41.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
If you’re looking for a fun gift for the Friends fan on your list this year, We suggest the Friends On the Go lunch cooler from Picnic Time. This high-quality lunch cooler is adorned with the Friends Logo and it kept our rendition of Monica’s leftover sandwich cool for hours. It even has an expandable main compartment so that it can handle as many snacks as you want to bring with you. What better way to show someone on your gift list that you’ll be there for them!
The Mandalorian/ The Child Topange Cooler Tote Bag
$47.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
A good cooler tote can be a lifesaver. Whether you are packing snacks to bring to the office, or to your kid’s class, you need a good bag to keep your frozen groceries chilled on the ride home, or you need something that can keep all of your treats cool for a day at the beach. This bag does all of those things, but it does them with style. Sure, it might be big enough to hold 24 cans of soda, but no one is going to notice because of the adorable image of Baby Yoda smelling the flowers that is printed on the side. If you need a good cooler bag and are looking for a softer and more serene way to show off your love for Star Wars, this is the bag to do it.
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Acacia Wood Beverage Glass Gift Set
$166.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
If you’re looking for a really classy gift to give to the Harry Potter fan on your gift list, check this out. This beautiful Pint Glass set comes in a stunning Acacia wood box emblazoned with the Deathly Hallows on it. When you slide open the case, you are treated to two 12 oz glasses, each etched with the same logo as well as coasters and a stainless steel bottle opener. This set is so pretty that even if you take the glasses out and put them in your cabinet, you’ll want to keep the box out on display. This might just be the key to the world’s most fancy glass of butterbeer in history.
Toy Story Pizza Planet Acacia Pizza Peel/ Serving Paddle
$58.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
If you know someone who loves Toy Story and also loves making pizza, it’s time to take their gift list down to Pizza Planet with this 14” acacia wood pizza peel. It not only works great (we love wooden pizza peels over metal, just because it feels more natural), but this peel is etched with both the Pizza Planet logo and three LGMs (Little Green Men) on the bottom. It’s as functional as it is adorable.
Star Wars Yoda Hardwood BBQ Grill Scraper W/ Bottle Opener
$39.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
Do you have a Star Wars fan that loves to grill on your list? Check this out. Anyone who grills needs a good grill scraper, but they always look so boring. That’s not the case with this Parawood grill scraper. It’s perfect for Star Wars enthusiasts with its Yoda head and “Grill I Will” etched into the hardwood surface, but then it has an extra treat. This Grill scraper serves double duty as a bottle opener, so when it’s hanging on your wall between scraping all the gunk and char off your grill, you can use it to pop open a cold blue milk, or whatever it is they’re drinking in the Cantina these days.
Star Wars Darth Vader Gardener Folding Seat With Tools
$133.95 • Picnic Time • Get Yours Now
Star Wars fans who love to garden have now found the ultimate gift. It’s more than just a garden tote that comes equipped with 1 steel 12.125″ broad face trowel, 1 12″ narrow face trowel, 1 11″ garden fork, 1 11″ cultivator/rake, and 1 12.5″ weeder. It’s more than just a seat that you can rest on while working on your plants in the garden. It’s one of the cutest Vader representations we’ve seen in a long time. They call it a sassy Vader. We’re just going with homebody Vader. On one side, Vader can be seen taking his At-At for a walk, while on the other, he’s trimming his Death Star topiary. We just hope he remembers to trim off that exhaust port this time. Seriously though, if you have a Star Wars gardener in your life, this is the gift, especially if they lean towards the dark side.