TasteTV Gift Guide: 10 Cool Gifts for the Stylish Innovationist
If you are looking for a gift that is innovative yet stylish, TasteTV has found some cool ideas for you. They include grooming accessories, luxury bags, fitness gear, new cameras, portable smartphone printers, tech treats, and of course great books.
Vessel Signature 2.0 Backpack
You can wear any old brand’s backpack when you leave the home or office, or you can wear one of these luxury backpacks with the stylish and recognizable “V” on it.
Vessel’s 2.0 Signature Backpack makes a statement even when it’s sitting unused in a chair. Its micro-suede synthetic leather comes in a variety of color and texture combinations, including the Stone Trac pictured here.
Designing for how it is actually being used, Vessel recently upgraded the backpack line with a trolley handle sleeve for carry-on or push luggage. In addition, the padded shoulder straps are extremely comfortable and secure, and the entire bag has water resistant pockets (of which there are several).
Vessel says its mission is “Filled with Purpose. By believing that we can all make a difference, Vessel has committed to donate a school backpack to a child in need. Since the Buy A Bag, Give a Bag program was implemented, Vessel customers have helped provide over 27,000 school backpacks to children around the world.”
Find it here.
Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
We have experience with the high quality of Dyson products, and you have to automatically assume that when they put the word “supersonic” in the name of an item, They-Are-Not-Kidding.
Seriously, Dyson excels in vacuums and air purifiers, along with other air powered systems. It is a natural idea for them to create one that could dry your hair as quickly and delightfully as possible without killing it. $71 million dollars and 1,000 hours of test time later, you have it. Sweet handheld perfection.
As entrepreneur and company founder Sir James Dyson explains, “We realized that hair dryers can cause extreme heat damage to hair. So I challenged Dyson engineers to really understand the science of hair and develop our version of a hair dryer, which we think solves these problems.”
Yes, indeed. Mischief managed.
Find it here.
SomaSole® Gym-In-A-Bag
If someone gives you ones of these, be thankful. They basically just gave you a home gym, and one that you can coincidentally also take with you anywhere. Somasole is a portable, total body workout bundle that can be used for both training and recovery, and help create results in areas such as weight loss, dynamic activation, performance preparation, stretching, pilates and yoga movements, and corrective exercise and rehabilitation.
What’s Included Inside of the Bundle:
- 2 – SomaSole™ Foot Harnesses
- 2 – 41″ Snap-Proof Link™ Resistance Bands
- 1 – 62″ Snap-Proof Link™ Resistance Band
- 2 – Padded Handles
- 1 – Dual-Pocket Drawstring Bag
“After playing football at Stanford and traveling around the world for the sport, I realized there was a huge gap in the fitness world for an easy-to-use, customizable and portable fitness system that targets the whole body,” said Matt Kasner, co-founder of Finesse Fitness.
Find it on Amazon.
Nomad USB-C Universal Cable with Kevlar
Frayed ends, snapped connections, and twisted cords are no longer a worry with the Nomad USB-C Universal Cable with Kevlar. In fact, you will probably forget those problems ever existed. Durable from the inside to out, the Nomad cable has tightly double-braided Kevlar® fibers around the exterior as well is reinforced with Kevlar® in the central core.
The Nomad cable allows you to easily switch between adapter plug formats like Micro USB, USB-A, and USB-C. The full feature set includes:
- 100W USB-C PD core cable
- USB-A and Micro USB adapters
- Kevlar® outer braid
- Kevlar® central core
- Metal alloy connector plugs
- Integrated cable tie
- 1.5m Length
- Apple MFi approved
Not only tough and useful, it is also very stylish in black tones. This cable will be one you want to keep an eye on, lest it be “borrowed” by family or friends. This is also what makes it a valuable gift.
Find it on Nomad here
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link Smartphone Printer
The World is Your Oyster when you can bring along your own portable instant printer for your smartphone. Fujifilm has made essentially every day or occasion a party, with you at the helm. The Instax Mini Link Smartphone Printer connects seamlessly over Bluetooth to give you instant satisfaction.
It comes with several very cool features, like Match Test, Fun Mode, Print Mode, and Party Print. One mode actually allows you to control your image by angling the printer. The print quality is high, at 800 x 600 pixels and 318 dpi.
Other features include:
- Printing capacity – Approx. 100 prints (From when the battery is charged fully)
- Size is 3.5 in. × 1.3 in. × 4.9 in.
- Built-in Lithium ion battery
- Printing levels – 256 levels per color (RGB)
- Supported image format – JPEG / PNG / HEIF
- Printing time: Approximately 12 sec.
- Film Developing Time – Approximately 90 seconds
- Accepts Film – Fujifilm Instant Color Film “instax mini” (separately available). Film Size – 86mm x 54mm Picture Size 62mm x 46mm
- Charging time – Approximately 80 to 120 minutes
Very stylish, sleek and eye-catching, some of the colors available are Dusky Pink, Ash White and Dark Denim.
Find it here on Amazon.
Canon EOS Rebel T7i
You may be familiar with the Canon EOS line, as well as the Rebel T7, but the Canon EOS Rebel T7i DSLR is definitely an upgrade. It allows you to easily take high quality photos and video in many lighting conditions, while also offering features that many professionals use, such as external microphone input jacks and lighting sources, and the ability to use many of the Canon lenses.
Unlike many lower down the EOS line, the swivel LED is perfect for Vloggers and lone filmmakers who need to set the camera on a tripod to record themselves.
Other sweet features:
- 24.2 Megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor and DIGIC 7 Image Processor
- Built in Wi Fi, NFC and Bluetooth connectivity to other compatible devices
- 45-point all cross-type Optical Viewfinder Auto Focus system
- Dual Pixel CMOS AF with phase-detection
- Affordable
Find it on Amazon here.
Eco-Friendly CLARDS Personal Cards & Paper Towels
CLARD, a new type of greeting card that transforms into a reusable cleaning cloth when wet – each CLARD replaces 3,000 paper towels.
Patent-pending CLARDS feel like a paper card, but when wet, transforms into two ultra-eco cleaning cloths that customers say work like magic. CLARDs absorb 20x its weight in liquid cleaning up spills better, quicker, and best of all without needing paper towels.
“We are on a mission to make it easy for everyone to consume less. Multi-use CLARDs are a fun and functional greetings that become a reusable paper towel alternative. We are providing a greeting with a new meaning and the best part is they never need to be thrown in the trash – CLARDs are 100% compostable,” says Carla Scholz, Founder of Soak it Up Cloths and inventor of CLARDS.
Find it here: www.clards.com
The Official Chocolate Journal
Published by TasteTV, you’ll be able to keep track of your chocolate tastings, your favorite chocolates, your favorite shops and even recipes with THE OFFICIAL CHOCOLATE JOURNAL (2nd Edition).
Over 140 pages for you to fill.
Find it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TZLokL
The Chocolatier’s Primer
Do you love chocolate enough to go into business making it? Learn from some of those who have already done it.
This new book contains experiences, tips, advice from those who have made the leap. A must-have for any aspiring or current chocolatier and chocolate maker.
FIND IT ON AMAZON: https://amzn.to/2jEAx32
The Wine Maker’s Primer
If you feel that your dream is to one day become a winemaker, or maybe you’re just getting started, this book featuring a roundtable of experts is a must-have.
TasteTV composed a set of key questions and asked them to interesting artisans from around the world with experience in either wine-making, winery ownership, or both. Their answers on creativity, product, branding and business are very frank and often personal, and written in a journal or diary style. The information in the resulting primer is worth its weight in gold.
FEATURING
Includes wineries such as Truchard Vineyards, Twisted Roots Vineyard, Peachy Canyon Winery, Rock Wall Wines, Passaggio Wines, Miner Family Winery, Turiya Wines, Glamma Wine, Rosa d’Oro Vineyards, Cass Winery, and more.
Find it on Amazon here
