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Especially as a customized corporate gift, with recipients choosing their own sweet treats. Sugarwish sends an e-card with a link to its interactive Web site, where the recipient selects four (or more, depending on the package) types of candy. The candy is packed in re-sealable bags and shipped out in a signature gift-wrapped box. Sugarwish boxes come in three sizes: Petite boxes contain four types of candy, each in a quarter-pound bag; Classic boxes contain eight bags; Ultimate boxes contain 16 bags. Corporate pricing for Petite boxes is $25 per box, up to 19 boxes; $23 per box, up to 99 boxes; and $22 per box when you buy more than 100 boxes. Classic boxes start at $45; Ultimate boxes start at $70. (Gift packaging and shipping are included.) Inserts with customized text and logos can be ordered as well. Find more at www.sugarwish.com
Here’s a great way to buy a round of holiday drinks for your team on the other side of the country: a delivery from Cocktail Courier. This New York City startup delivers all the ingredients and instructions for, say, six tasty Moscow Mules: Stolichnaya vodka, ginger syrup, a bottle of lime juice, ginger beer, and fresh limes. They’ll even send along the appropriate glasses, shakers, strainers, or other mixology tools for an added fee. The company began delivering margaritas, old fashioneds, and more nationwide in September after a limited rollout that started in late 2014. Most of the six-drink kits range from $3.99 to $5.99 per cocktail, with one as high as $12.99 per cocktail (mixing a “Scent of a Pedal” requires grapefruit liqueur, Tabasco, endive, and chamomile syrup, among other ingredients). Gift cards and subscriptions available.
Combine luxury with necessity and you’ve got the perfect gift. When the necessity is a travel wallet, you’ve got the perfect gift for frequent business travelers (or incentive qualifiers). From luxury leather goods purveyor Aspinal of London, this wallet is handmade in leather, lined in suede, and comes in heaps of tasteful color combos. Tabbed sections store travel documents, currency, passports, and coins. Work with Aspinal of London’s bespoke corporate gift service for personalized gift options, wrapped in a signature keepsake box or in packaging branded for your company or event.
Visit the Web site for more information.
Travel wallet: $195
This elegant stainless steel watch from the Bulova Diamond Collection (model 98R215) has 34 diamonds individually hand-set on its silver-tone and rose gold-tone case. The watch boasts a white mother-of-pearl dial, flat mineral glass, six-hand calendar chronograph, “deployant” closure, and water resistance to 30 meters. Diameter: 30mm
Watch: $550
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You know when the person in front of you on the plane violently puts their seat back, crunching your tablet and spilling your drink? The Airhook, a patent-pending system from Mr. CER Tech that includes a stable drink holder and secure hook to mount your electronic devices, turns that scenario into a distant memory. Fliers simply hook the system onto the upright tray table to secure their drink, and snap their tablet or smartphone into the eye-level mount for hands-free use. The system is adjustable, so if the seat in front reclines, you can set things right, and includes an earbud hook that doubles as a coat hanger.
Airhook: $24.95 Bulk discounts available (shipping starts in December)
Maui Jim’s Red Sands has a refined, rectangle shape that gives the wearer a recognizable frame that best fits medium- to large-sized faces. Its saddle-style bridge has adjustable nose pads that provide custom support and stability to the face. Red Sands looks great on both men and women and complements round, oval, or heart-shaped faces. Available in four colors, Red Sands’ MauiPure lens technology provides crisp, high performance optics and lightweight comfort.
Red Sands: $229 Learn more.
Smartphones tend to go everywhere you do—and pick up a lot of germs along the way. Now you can clean your phone while it charges with the PhoneSoap smartphone sanitizer. (The company got a $300,000 investment from an appearance on the TV show “Shark Tank” in February.) PhoneSoap uses ultraviolet light to zap germs and comes with a micro USB charging cable (which can be switched out for other cables). Built-in amplifiers allow you to hear your notifications and alarms while the phone is in the box. It fits most phones, though it’s not big enough to hold the iPhone 6 Plus.
PhoneSoap: $59.95
Photographers looking for a high-quality interchangeable lens camera will be delighted with Canon’s new EOS M3. The mirrorless shooter, coming to the U.S. market this month, offers the power and versatility of EOS in a compact and stylish design. Among its features are a 24.2 megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor, ISO 12800, DIGIC 6 image processor, hybrid CMOS AF III, and compatibility with Canon EF and EF-S lenses (via adapter) and Speedlite flashes.
EOS M3: $799.99 Learn more.
These gorgeous glass votive and tea-light holders are handblown in Seattle and come in more than 400 colors, from “tangerine” to “sunshine” and “cabo” to “creamsicle.” (It’s a blast to scroll through: Click here.) Companies can work with in-house color specialists to create and name a custom color. Ten percent of the sale of every glassybaby goes directly to the glassybaby white light fund, which donates to organizations that provide financial and emotional assistance to those in need. The company has given more than $3 million to charitable causes since its founding.
Prices start at $44, with corporate rates available, including all packaging, a wrapped tea light, eco-grosgrain ribbon bows, glassybaby story cards, and shipping or delivery. Find more here.
The mophie powerstation plus external battery charger is designed to charge virtually any USB device, including smartphones and tablets. And it packs a lot into its compact design, with integrated USB charge and sync cables. The unit can charge a power-hungry tablet from zero to 100 percent in six hours, and can also pass along a charge from a computer to the device while simultaneously recharging itself.
Powerstation plus: $79.95
“Refined-sugar free, gluten free, wheat free, soy free, dairy free, egg free, soy free, vegan, kosher”—the header at the Web site of Erin McKenna’s Bakery says it all. From her shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side (and now from bakeries in L.A. and Downtown Disney as well), McKenna creates cakes, cookies, donuts, and more that look and taste as if nothing is missing. But everything’s vegan, right down to the sprinkles. The company delivers locally and ships nationally. The double chocolate crumb cake with agave-sweetened chocolate sauce costs $35 while a dozen ginger cookies is $19.25. Call for specialty cake orders (855-462-2292). See a gallery of recent creations.
Before the NBA Finals in June, LeBron James gave each of his teammates an Apple Watch as a gift. While the Cavaliers lost in game 6, the watches were no doubt a winner. Despite the innovation of the product and its undeniable cachet, many Apple enthusiasts have yet to splurge on this luxury item. An ideal gift opportunity? The Apple Watch, which lets users receive and respond to notifications, speak to Siri, use Apple Pay, and track health and fitness activity, got an update in September. WatchOS 2 adds features such as “Time Travel,” allowing users to get a forward or backward look at their calendar, weather forecasts, battery life, and more. Apple Watch is available in three collections:
Apple Watch Sport starts at $349
Apple Watch starts at $549
Apple Watch Edition (crafted from custom rose or yellow 18-karat gold alloys) starts at $10,000
A suitcase-tracking device called LugLoc will be a welcome holiday gift for any traveler who’s faced an airline customer rep unsure about the whereabouts of her on-the-road wardrobe. The wireless gadget, about the size of a deck of cards, slips into a checked bag and allows the user to trace its location using a smartphone app and the phone’s GPS technology, or Bluetooth over short distances. The Travel Goods Association awarded LugLoc first place in its 2015 Product Innovation Awards competition.
LugLoc: $69.99 The trace fee (about $1 each) applies after a 15-day, post-activation period when traces are free.
This beautiful blanket is made of luxurious cotton yarn for the warmth and coziness of a favorite sweater. Generously sized (50 inches x 60 inches), the ivory-colored blanket comes wrapped in a signature box—or you can customize a wooden crate with hot-iron logo branding. It’s just one of many gifts available from Salt Lake City–based Olive & Cocoa, also known for sumptuous gourmet food baskets and gorgeous flower arrangements. Visit the company’s Web site or send e-mail to be put in touch with a dedicated corporate gift specialist.
Cable-knit throw: $224
GoPros are everywhere but the latest version of the action camera, launched in July, is 50 percent smaller, 40 percent lighter, and waterproof without needing a case. Called the GoPro Hero4 Session, the 1.5-inch black cube camera can connect to existing GoPro mounts, allowing it to attach to everything from a bike handlebar to a ski helmet to a chest harness. Like other GoPro cameras, the Session’s 1440p30 and 1080p60 video is high-definition, and the camera can take both time-lapse photos (at intervals from .5 seconds to 60 seconds) and “burst” photos (10 frames per second).
Hero4 Session: $399
It might be hard to justify spending several hundred dollars to keep your sodas on ice, but for boaters and outdoorsmen, effective and indestructible Yeti coolers are the ultimate. The company came out with a soft-sided model in 2014, the Hopper 30, and this year rolled out the slightly smaller Hopper 20. This new model might not seem different than the $30 soft-sided cooler you could pickup at any outdoor store, but it’s waterproof, leak-proof, and, with an inch of closed-cell foam on the sides (more on the bottom), promises to keep your drinks cool for days.
Hopper 20: $299
While there are fitness trackers for every type of person and price point, the Fitbit Surge leads the pack in most review roundups. The high end of the Fitbit line, Surge is a touchscreen wristwatch that tracks steps, sleep, heart rate—and alerts users when they get an incoming phone call or text message. It also uses GPS to map out routes. It comes in small, medium, and large, in black, blue, or tangerine, and can be customized to track up to seven activities, from hiking, to elliptical, to yoga and kickboxing. While GPS use burns through the battery fairly quickly, the battery in non-GPS mode should last about five days.
Surge: $249.95
