Celebrate the gathering season with elevated gifts and thoughtful gadgets. Share your favorites on @smartmeetings.
Musk Ox Love
Oomingmak Musk Ox hand-knitted scarves from Anchorage, Alaska, bear traditional Native designs and allow the crafters to continue living in their remote villages. The underwool is softer than sheep’s wool and never itchy.
“Brings back memories of an epic Alaska experience.”
– Scott Flanagan
Qiviut | Qiviuk.com
Carditude
Three cheers for cheeky corporate holiday cards that start with Thanksgiving. Customize your own digital or old-fashioned paper and ink version stamped and delivered. Basic Invite will even mail your best wishes for you.
Basic invite | Basicinvite.com
Dear Diary
Detritus of trips past live on in a handy folder that will forever commemorate that mountain train trek, Caribbean cruise and the flight where you sat next to your next best boss.
Uncommon Goods | Uncommongoods.com
Intentional Gifting
This Positive Vibes gift basket from Packed with Purpose is filled with tea, biscuits and jam and accompanied by a bonsai grow kit and mug. It employs veterans and individuals experiencing homelessness by sourcing through sustainable, direct trade practices while practicing environmental education and conservation.
Packed with Purpose | Shop.packedwithpurpose.gifts
AI Whisperer
This personal global business assistant in your ear will translate phone and video from 40 languages, summarize meetings and link through Bluetooth to your phone. You still have to get your own coffee.
Timekettle | Timekettle.co
Notes of Nobu
Turn up the Nobu vibes in your office, home or meeting space with the lemon-ginger fragrance oil found at Nobu resorts. This fall favorite from the Resorts Collection includes pink pepper top notes, jasmine and a base of patchouli and vetiver.
Aroma Retail | Aromaretail.com
In the Bag
Time for a Close Up
Zoom Tube is just the ticket for an offline natural encounter. This durable monocle comes in a range of colors is water resistant and handy for checking out what is happening on the other end of the clearing or the ballroom.
Nocs Provisions | Nocsprovisions.com
Sweet Talk
This Sugar Lip Treatment is made from beetroot and sugar cane and comes in a rainbow of buildable colors that hydrate like a balm. The durable metal packaging with a screw-off top means it will never get crushed or melt in your bag.
“I have been wearing this for years.”
– Sara Robertson
fresh | fresh.com
Slim Packing
These lightweight, tear-resistant nylon packing cubes allow you to compress items with a second middle zipper to squeeze the contents to half its size.
REI Co-op | Rei.com/product
This article appears in the November/December 2024 issue. You can subscribe to the magazine here.