Gift Ideas
Gift Ideas
The Necklace that Tracks Every Heave of Your Bosom
It's the holidays. How about giving that special out-of-shape someone an oversized glossy plastic transmitter to hang around their gorgeous neck, which will send all of their movements to a coach pacing furiously back and forth in a bunker somewhere in the Netherlands. For just $99, the Philips DirectLife activity monitor could make this Lives of Others dream come true.
Doh! Sarcasm aside, it's gift buying time, and you might actually consider snapping up one of these crazy activity trackers, and/or a state-of-the-art heart rate monitor gizmo watch. Why? Well, they're not crazy expensive, and they might actually be the future. This is your chance to be an early adopter, to nurture your latent techno-fetishism, and to impress your family with the novel, cool item during the gift opening proceedings.
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Tuesday Afternoon Stocking Stuffer
It's a deck of 32 cards, each one has a different exercise on it, complete with photo and description. None of the exercises require equimpent. You shuffle the deck, pick eight, and go to town. Hello Exercise-to-Go: Travel Workout Cards, brainchild of Tim Koffler. "The great thing about the cards is that it gets rid of one more excuse," says Tim. "You can use the cards to exercise anywhere, anytime." Likely to get lost in the back of your desk drawer or side pocket of your overnight bag? Yes. Sort of cute? True. Possibly effective for the rare organized and whimsical personality? Totally.
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Yogamatic or Black?
My mom does not believe in decorated dinner plates. We grew up with simple, off-white Johnson Brothers Ironstone. It was the great chef Joey Hyde who told her: "Let the food do the talking." I think I feel the same way about yoga mats. Keep 'em simple. Preferably black. On the other hand, Yogamatic is totally cool. Upload any picture, pay $85, and they send you your very own, customized, fully-eco-friendly mat. Warrior two practiced on image of long board can only help the surfing, right? And you can share mat designs, like iTunes playlists. (FYI: Matthew McConaughey has the longboard one.) Call it your special occasion mat, to bust out when feeling down, or when main mat is still "recovering" in the shower.
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