Farm Stand Hydroponic Garden Tower
Lettuce Grow
$399.00+
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I think we spent longer reviewing this particular product than any other item in this year’s guide. We’ve been playing with the Farm Stand since August and it’s kind of a life-changing thing. Imagine literally being able to have a full garden in your kitchen. This hydroponic grow tower can be customized to hold anywhere from 12-36 plants at any given time and it can be used outside or indoors. We tested out the 24 plants, indoor version. It only took up around 2 sq feet against the wall in the kitchen and it only needs around 5 minutes of attention a week. This is a closed system, hydroponic garden. That means you don’t even have to water it. You start it off with 23 gallons of water and that is enough to take it all the way through the growth cycle. We have grown several types of lettuce, Basil, Cilantro, Tomatoes, strawberries, and multiple types of flowers in the Farmstand and it’s changed the way we eat. We don’t have to buy lettuce at the store anymore because it’s growing in the kitchen! And, if you are wondering how forgiving the Farmstand is if you forget to feed it or if something goes wrong? Well, our’s went through two hurricanes, each with a power outage and it never impacted the final result. If everyone in the world had one of these in their kitchen or in their backyard, it’s a fair bet that we’d all be a lot healthier. This is a big gift, but it’s one that anyone who loves vegetables would cherish. In just a couple of short months, the Farmstand has become as important in our kitchen as any of our major appliances. Beyond the benefits of having plants growing in your home and having a simple source of fresh, organic produce, this is also an amazing learning tool. If you have a child and you want them to have a better understanding of food, you can’t do much better than giving them a way to literally watch it grow in front of them. It’s a classroom inside your home that teaches kids and adults the fundamentals of botany and agriculture. It’s an amazing jumping-off point for teaching kids how to eat better and cook for themselves. And, with the light ring attachments, you can even grow food in the middle of the winter. We can’t recommend The Farmstand enough to anyone. It’s just an amazing gift!
Levo II
Levo
$299.99
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The Levo 2 might be magic and it also might be one of the first appliances that was designed with both Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart in mind. At it’s heart, it’s an infuser. That means you can use it to infuse oils, soaps, butters, honeys, and just about anything else you can imagine with the essence of herbs, whether they are basil or marijuana. If it just did that, we’d already be impressed, because this is one hell of an infuser. It was simple to use and everything we tried to infuse really felt like it was fully permeated in to the finished project. One of the things that takes the Levo 2 to a whole other level is the “dry and activate” mode. In some circles, people know this as decarboxylation. It’s when you use very precise temperatures to fully activate the important compounds in an herb so that it becomes completely bioavailable. This is important when it comes to anything from flavor to extracting the beneficial compounds out of an herb. This can not only give you a much better final product, but it saves you a ton of money on the back end because you get much more bang for your buck when it comes to what you buy. In the end, I think one of the things that really makes this such a great appliance is that it’s precise. So many infusers and decarbs lack the ability to create the same recipes with repeatable results. The Levo 2 not only gave us amazing infusions every time we used it, but we never had a problem making the exact same thing more than once. This is the kind of gift that’s good for anyone you know who is interested in infusing their own oils, butters, and honeys for cooking or health reasons. It’s also an amazing gift for any 420 friendly friends on your gift list.
BPM Connect
Withings
$99.95
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The Withings BPM Connect is a sleek and modern blood pressure and heart rate monitor that is as accurate as it is easy to use.BPM Connect can be installed on a smartphone or tablet using the Health Mate app (available on iOS and Android). Once set up, users can track systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate. Readings are quick and accurate and can be viewed via the app or using the color coded LED screen right on the cuff. The device can be easily be folded for storage and with a battery life up to 6 months, makes for a great travel companion.
Advanced Baby Sleep Monitor
Monbaby
$74.99
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There are very few things in life as exciting and scary as having a new baby. You want to do everything you can to make sure they are safe, but you also know that you are probably going to make a ton of mistakes. One thing you can do to give yourself, or the new parents in your life a little piece of mind is to get them the Monbaby advanced baby sleep monitor. The monitor snaps easily onto any onesie or diaper and then connects through a Blue tooth connection to an app that will keep you fully in the know. If your baby’s chest stops moving up and down, it will alert you. If your baby rolls onto their tummy, you’ll get a ping. It even monitors the environmental temperature around your baby and will alert you to big changes. We loved how easy this was to use. It wasn’t a sock that can easily get kicked off. It snaps onto your baby’s clothes and stays attached until you take it off. If you want to give a little data and peace of mind to the new parent in your life, this is a great gift.
Thermo Infrared Thermometer
Withings
$99.95
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The high precision Thermo infrared thermometer from Withings has 16 infrared sensors that give surprisingly consists and accurate result. Measurements are taken ultra-fast and are color coded to indicate fever. No contact is required, making this an ideal thermometer for parents to use on sick sleeping children that are better left undisturbed. Download the Thermo app (available for both iOS and Android) and the data from the Thermo will automatically synchronize, saving data from each measurement, making it easy to share with your doctors the full history and progression of illness.
Aqua Pure Produce Purifier
Aqua Pure
$79.97
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Vegetables are tasty and good for you, but unless you’ve grown them yourself, you have no idea how dirty your veggies are when you bring them home from the store. We want to make sure you get the most out of your veggies without the pesticides, and that’s why we think the Aqua Pure produce purifier is a great gift for anyone you know who eats things that grow in the ground. The device looks like a blue tooth speaker, but this is for beets, not beats. You just pop it in a bowl of water with your veggies and turn it on. Using tap water, a little salt, and an electric current, the Aqua Pure uses electrolysis to not just help clean your produce, but also neutralize harmful pesticides and bacteria. In fact, they claim that lab tests have shown reductions of the following: E. Coli Bacteria (99.9%), Cypermethrin Pesticide (94.8%). and Chlorpyrifos Pesticide (95.6%). It’s easy to use and a great gift for anyone you know who wants to bring a little more clean into their kitchen.
Smart Pepper Spray 5-in-1
Plegium
$54.95
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Pepper spray might not be the first thing that you think of when you think of gifts, but when we handed out these smart pepper sprays to our female testers, they all said they’d love to get something like this as a present. There’s something about piece of mind that makes a great gift all year round. This isn’t just any pepper spray though. This is a smart pepper spray. Starting with the spray itself, this is a highly-concentrated spray that will not only spray for 10-15 seconds, but will also mark your target with both a regular and UV dye so they can be easily spotted by authorities. That’s just the beginning. When you do fire the pepper spray, it will also set off a siren and a strobe light to help attract attention… and that’s not even the cool thing. Plegium’s Smart Pepper Spray connects to an app via blue tooth that will automatically text and call everyone on your emergency contact list to alert them that you are in trouble and to tell them your exact GPS location. If you want, there’s even a premium service for a few bucks a month that will connect you to a monitoring system that will call the police for you when you fire off your device. And to top it all off, the battery will last for four years. We get it, this isn’t romantic and it’s not fun, and it’s actually the kind of gift that you give with the hopes that the person you give it to never has to use it. But it’s the kind of gift that they’ll be forever grateful to have if they ever do.
Smart Mini Pepper Spray 3-in-1
Plegium
$44.95
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We just spent a lot of time talking about why we liked Plegium’s smart pepper spray, but not everyone wants something with so many features. For those people, the Smart Mini might be a better solution. While it doesn’t have the siren or strobe light, it still has the pepper spray with the dye, the app, and the ability to reach out to everyone on your emergency contacts with a location text and a phone call when you are in trouble. Also, just like the big version, you can also sign up for the premium service for a few dollars a month and get professional monitoring for your device and it has the same four-year battery life.
Life Vac
LifeVac
$69.95
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Sometimes you buy a gift because it’s fun and cool, and sometimes you buy it because you know it could save a life. This is a season of over-eating, which means a lot of people are going to be choking. The reality is that the Heimlich maneuver has been proven not to be nearly as effective as we previously believed. The Life Vac, however, this device is awesome. If it looks like a plunger for your mouth, that’s because it is essentially that. It creates suction around the mouth and nose and can be used to suck something stuck in your throat, back into your mouth. It’s awesome. Check out this video of a baby being saved with it in a restaurant. This is the kind of device that everyone should have in their home or their car.
Smart Emergency Button
Plegium
$34.95
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If you have someone in your life who you worry about, or that you just want to make sure is always safe, but they aren’t the kind of person that would feel comfortable carrying around something like Pepper Spray, the Smart Emergency button is a great option. This little keychain uses the same app as the spray, so when you press and hold the button for two seconds, it will send the emergency location texts and calls to everyone you designated on your list. And, because it is a silent alarm, your won’t alert a potential attacker to the fact that they are about to be in big trouble!
Steripen Classic 3
Steripen
$99.95
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Clean water is important regardless of whether you are at the kitchen sink or in the middle of the woods. Having a convenient device on hand that can kill off over 99.9% of waterborne viruses, bacteria and protozoa at the push of a button would have made you a God a hundred years ago, but it’s something that Steripen has been perfecting for years. Powered by batteries, the Steripen uses a UV light to sterilize up to 32 oz of water in just 90 seconds. That kind of convenience can make a huge difference on camping trips, but also during things like boil water alerts. This is the kind of gift that’s really good for anyone who ever drinks water.
Vivoo Personalized Nutrition System
Vivoo
$40.00+
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Welcome to the world of biohacking. People are more interested than ever in finding ways to live a healthy life and Vivoo can help you do it. You just have to pee on a strip. Yeah. we are suggesting that you give someone in your life a urine test for the holidays, but if you have a friend who is trying to live a better and healthier life, this is the way to go. This isn’t any ordinary test like a glucose strip. Vivoo helps you test and track for 9 wellness parameters: Vitamin C, Magnesium, Calcium, Salinity, Oxidative Stress, pH, Hydration, Ketones, and Proteins. The information is uploaded into the app and then it provides personalized nutritional and lifestyle goals for you based on the results. It’s like having a concierge medical team who is tracking the things that can have a major effect on your day to day health. So, who is this gift good for? Anyone who has ever mentioned that they are doing Keto. Anyone that you know is trying to live a healthier life, and honestly, anyone who you know could be living a healthier life. Sometimes a little knowledge is what they need to get off their butts and take better care of themselves. Even if that knowledge comes from peeing on a stick.
The Thinking Nest 2.0
Orijin
$77.00
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There are some gifts that are for everyone, and then there are gifts like Orijin’s Thinking Nest 2.0. To the uninitiated, these are just stone eggs. They are cool, but what do they even do? Well, if you have someone in your life who has been focusing on increased mindfulness and improving their meditation, they know that these little eggs are the perfect focal point when you need something that can help you let the rest of the world melt away. The set includes eggs made from Tiger’s Eye, Sandstone, Crystal Quartz, Damascus Steel, and Jade. Each one catches the light in a unique way, feels different in your hands, and can take your journey of self-exploration on a completely different path. If you have someone in your life who is looking for a little peace in their life this holiday season the Thinking Nest could be just what the doctor ordered.
Portable Hammock
Kootek
$20.00
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Is there a cooler way to take a nap than in a hammock? We don’t think so. The problem is that most Hammocks are a pain in the butt to set up, or they can’t be taken with you. This portable hammock is a great option for people who want to be able to sleep in a hammock wherever they go. First of all, it’s huge. It can hold up to two people and up to 500 lbs. What we loved most about it was the ease of use. You can have your hammock set up in just a couple of minutes. You wrap the tree-friendly straps to two trees or posts. Unfold your hammock and connect the carabiners at each end to the straps, and you’re done. This is a great gift for hikers, campers, and anyone who wants to relax in the fresh out, even if it’s just in their backyard.
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