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Give & Tell with Morgan Haines

Morgan Haines

Meet the newest addition to our team! She’s a talented graphic designer and self proclaimed internet addict. She’s funny, clever, and been making me smile since the day we met. She’s also one hell of a gift hound. Check out Morgan’s first few posts on Wantist and keep an eye out for more to come. Also visit her personal blog, Internet Therapy, for tales of her love affair with Mr. Internet.

I asked Morgan to Give & Tell for us today so you could get to know her better. She was all over it. Here she is!

Tell us about a gift-giving ah-ha moment you recall.

My girlfriend and I have a running “that’s what she said” joke contest. We never tire of it and use it as often as possible. We even managed to work it into our bridesmaid speech when we co-maid-of-honored another friend’s wedding last year.

I was mindlessly browsing at Urban Outfitters the other day when I came across a book completely devoted to “that’s what she said jokes.” I instantly knew she needed to have it and snatched it up right away. I was going to wait for her birthday in December but it looks like the cat’s out of the bag now (Happy Birthday, Melissa)!

What’s your favorite reason to celebrate with a gift?

I believe the best days and ways to give gifts are the ones you give for no reason at all! I love to give gifts simply because I found something and thought someone I knew might like it. “Just because” gifts are so much more heartfelt and spontaneous than ones that you give because the holiday or birthday (or some other annual event) requires them.
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Make and Give a Photorealistic Gadget Pouch

DIY Photorealistic Gadget Pouch / Image: Photojojo

Got gadgets and gizmos aplenty? Whozits and whatzits galore? Fantastic! Turn those thingamabobs into photorealistic pouches for friends, family, or your favorite vintage camera-loving geek!

DIY Photorealistic Gadget Pouch / Image: Photojojo

The fine folks at Photojojo have created a step-by-step tutorial for turning your favorite objects into handy pouches that are perfect for loose change, business cards, credits cards, or even iphones. The best part? No sewing required (this DIY gift is easy peasy). Hit up Photojojo for all the deets on making your own photorealistic pouch!

(h/t ManMade DIY)

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DIY Photorealistic Gadget Pouch / Image: Photojojo

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The Flying Video Game

Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter

If you’ve yet to geek out over Parrot’s AR.Drone Quadricopter, you’re in for a treat. This flying video game is remote-controlled by an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (with other platforms to follow) and features two cameras, a number of sensors, and an ultrasound altimeter for a birds-eye-view flying experience, augmented reality duels between drones over Wi-fi, and much, much more.

Skeptical? This video will ensure you want one. See the AR.Drone fly all around New York City:

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Share Lifelike Video of Your Next Ride with the Contour HD Helmet Cam

ContourHD 1080p Wearable Video Camera

Boldly go where no other HD video camera can. Maybe you’re Mike Rowe and like to get down and dirty in tiny crawl spaces with a camera strapped to your head. Or perhaps you’re an extreme heli-boarder and like falling from the sky toward a giant mountain with a camera strapped to your head. Either way, this is the camera you want.

A very cool gift for those who enjoy adventure sports and generally riding things that move—think bikers, boarders, skiers, racers, climbers, etc. The ContourHD 1080p Wearable Video Camera captures a point-of-view not typically easy to share with others, in glorious high-def.

We’ve got your back. It’s holiday crunch time, so we won’t post anything you can’t get on time. You’re all good with this one. Here’s Amazon’s Christmas Shipping Cutoffs.

Read more about it • $278 at Amazon

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ContourHD 1080p Wearable Video Camera

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Jambox

JAMBOX by Jawbone blue

There’s a lot to look at. We get it. To help you out we’re calling attention to a gift you may have missed, or one we think you shouldn’t. This is the Something for Someone Spotlight.

No cords, no dock, just booming sound in the palm of your hand—Jambox is music to our ears. Quite literally, in fact.

Jambox is a great looking little speaker that streams audio wirelessly from any Bluetooth device from anywhere in a room. This means most phones and your iPad can all remotely send and control the sound coming out of this compact box—music, movies, games too.

We also love that it’s a portable speakerphone. With a powerful built-in mic you can share a conference call or a video chat with just this little guy on the table. Oh, and it comes in four colors.

Read more about it • $199 at Best Buy

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JAMBOX by Jawbone blue

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DODOcase for Kindle

DODOcase for Kindle by fireplace

There’s a lot to look at. We get it. To help you out we’re calling attention to a gift you may have missed, or one we think you shouldn’t. This is the Something for Someone Spotlight.

A bibliophile’s skepticism toward the Kindle often comes down to their love for the feel of a book in their hands. Thankfully bookworms, DODOcase has you covered.

Now you can cozy up with 3,500 of your most favorite books cloaked in this beautiful handmade case. Constructed in San Francisco using traditional bookbinding techniques, DODOcase conceals and protects while providing the look and feel of a real book.

Get to know DODOcase a little better:

Read more about it • $49 at DODOcase

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DODOcase for Kindle by fireplace

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DMTC: Smile Cooking Toaster

Smile Toaster by Xu Yan Xiang

Didn’t Make the Cut: Gifts on Wantist must meet two criteria—the ability to buy it today and overall gift greatness. When we come across something we’d like to share but doesn’t pass the test, we post it here.

We all know that a good breakfast is a healthy way to start the day, so it stands to reason that smiling toast would be a healthy, and happy, addition to your morning routine.

Our friend Melissa helped us discover this grinning gadget—something funny for someone geeky we thought. But alas it’s only a concept and the closest match in the retail world was not nearly as snazzy, nor reliable.

Have a suggestion for something funny for someone geeky? Let us know in the comments below.

(Thanks, Melissa!)

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Smile Toaster by Xu Yan Xiang

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DMTC: TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits

TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits

One of our criteria for products included on Wantist is the ability to get it today. When you need a gift you usually can’t wait too long, and while we come across some really amazing almost-there ideas coming out of the industrial design world every day, unless you can buy it, it won’t make the cut. Every so often we’d still like to share them with you, so here’s numero uno.

Our first edition of Didn’t Make the Cut (DMTC) should include a big ol “Yet” because it’s very likely they’ll be in production soon. It’s a Kickstarter project (if you don’t know what that means read here) by Chicago-based design studio MINIMAL to build premium watch bands that “transform the iPod Nano into the world’s coolest mutli-touch watches”.

Check out the video below to see more about the two versions they’ve designed, TikTok and LunaTik. If you want to get in on the ground floor, consider a pledge to be one of the first to get your hands on one of these. (They’ve already raised $231K in three days!)

This is a very cool idea and the design looks terrific. We’re particularly smitten with the LunaTik and as soon as it hits stores we’ll change this one from Yet to Yes!

TikTok will retail for $34.95 and LunaTik will retail for $69.95.

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