Smart holiday gift guide: 5 products to express appreciation
The end of year is near, which means one more opportunity to show appreciation to your colleagues, customers, and collaborators before changing the calendar. Below are five smart gift ideas to help make life a tad easier for the people you appreciate—and to help you tackle your to-do list. Note: Prices listed are subject to change; SBT is not affiliated with any of the listed products.
HidrateSpark Pro (from $64.99), HidrateSpark
Get your recommended ounces of water with help from HidrateSpark Pro’s smart water bottle. The LED-illuminated, smart sensor base of the insulated stainless steel vessel glows when the time has come to drink; the sensor also tracks intake via Bluetooth. Change the color combination of your bottle’s glow through a companion app, which also allows you to compete with friends on drinking habits and locate the bottle when it invariably rolls under the desk. Available in 17- to 32-ounces sizes, with a chug or straw lid option, and in five bottle colors. hidratespark.com
Heated Hoodie (from $149), Jacket (from $199), or Vest (from $149), Robert Bosch Tool Corp.
Carta ($279) and Cubit ($119), Plott
For outdoor projects of varying scale, Carta is a handheld, rolling, digital tool that measures and maps the path you walk. Users can take or select a background or satellite image, mark points of interest along the route, annotate the resulting plot, and share it with others. The device has a 12"-diameter wheel, kickstand, and phone holder. Wheel around curbs, buildings, and site perimeters and obtain the information you need to estimate, design, and quote your project.
Moleskine Smart Writing Set ($279), Moleskine and MyScript
This Smart Writing Set combines the tactile ease of handwriting on Moleskine’s iconic ivory, ruled, and FSC-certified paper with the convenient, real-time transfer of notes, sketches, and scribbles into a digital copy that can shared, archived, and edited. The product includes a large Smart Notebook, a Smart Pen, a magnetic charger, one pen tip ink refill, and the Notes App, which converts handwriting into type and allows users to digitally colorize their drawings with help from MyScript’s AI-driven handwriting recognition technology. All content remains digitally editable and the handwriting is searchable. moleskine.com
Awair Element ($299), Awair