Three for Your Stockings
Consider these three thoughtful (and very useful)
gift ideas
for your holiday
gift-giving
By Patricia Kutza
Luxury gifts are the poster kids for holiday shopping promotions: Their images
look great on the printed page or splashed across the Net. I found three
products this year that won’t make anyone’s best-dressed list. Nonetheless their
benefits will keep on giving throughout the year.
 Consider LapWorks newest addition to their line of foldable laptop desks, the
Desk Futura. Laptop users who like to leverage downtime between flights will
really appreciate a platform that keeps these pesky heat generators off their
laps. Lightweight and foldable, the Desk also has a rubberized surface that
keeps your notebook from sliding. It’s a nice feature that works well with the
Desk’s stand, giving you the optimum tilt for your monitor.
 There’s a lot to be said for a beautiful sunset. But driving in twilight can be
a dicey proposition, when the fading light makes joggers, walkers and cyclists
harder to see.
Seattle-based Robin Freedman addresses these vulnerable moments with Crashwear,
lightweight, water-resistant reflective vests made from ripstop nylon. The
unisex pattern come in four different colors with two different styles of
reflective surfaces. Two ample pockets with Velcro closures are good receptacles
to free your hands of stuff like cellphones, ids, money, ipods and the like.
Freedman’s company tagline “Where style and safety collide” gave me pause to
reflect (no pun intended). And I appreciate the disclaimer that comes with
the vest: “While Crashwear vests are intended to help you be more stylish and
visible to other motorists, they will not protect against drivers who are using
a cell phone with one hand, smoking with the other hand, and steering with one
knee and they won’t protect you if you are doing the same.”
 I enjoy trip planning. But all sorts of things can happen that can turn even the
most carefully orchestrated schedule upside-down. My-Bands™ inventor, Maria Giovannoni,
got a rude awakening when she was asked on a moment’s notice to provide very
specific information about her mother’s health, following her arrival at a
hospital’s emergency room. She says, that after the shock of that sudden phone
call, she spent countless hours piecing together information about her mother’s
medical history.
 That frustrating incident spurred Giovannoni to develop a line of wristbands
that hold vital medical information capable of being accessed by any PC or
laptop that has a USB port. You can revise the valuable data stored in the
water-resistant My-Med™ band’s read/write memory as such information as critical
medicines, and doctor contact numbers change. Giovannoni has extended this
concept to MyID™, a band that contains the same USB memory stick technology. It
is smaller in size, intended for children and addresses similar needs as the
My-Med™ band: To hold contact and medical information that the holder, in an
emergency situation, may not know or be in a condition to share on their own.
For more information:
Future Laptop Desk and Desktop Stand
$29.95 retail, order directly from http://laptopdesk.net/
877-527-9675
Crashwear
$29.99 retail, order directly from www.crashwear.net
(206) 992-5100
My-Bands, LLC
$29.99 retail, order directly from http://www.my-bandsonline.com
(209) 518-9066
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