Awesome Gifts

Are you being pursued by space fascists? Did you just steal the movie’s MacGuffin? You need to make a quick escape. Concord Aerospace has you covered with their Hyperdrive Activation Panel. Just attach it to your clunky old spaceship and flip its switches for extreme speed. It’s blue LED backlight requires a 12V power source.

The James Brand now makes some of its everyday carry gear in vibrant colors. The Bright Collection includes great tools like The Ellis, unique carabiner clips like The Mehlville, and the sharp and purposeful The Carter pocket knife. The new hues include red, yellow, and blue, as well as some items in orange or purple.

From the authors of Death & Co, the Cocktail Codex is no ordinary drink recipe book. It teaches home bartenders about the fundamental elements that go into a good cocktail and the relationships between drinks that share attributes. The approach encourages experimentation in creating your own concoctions.

Puffin Drinkwear makes all kinds of fun insulated sleeves for drink cans, and this is our new favorite koozie. It looks like a tiny spacesuit, shielding your drink from heat, your hand from the cold, and preparing it for re-entry into your throat. It even has a tiny backpack you can use to stash a snack inside of.

The bev by BLACK+DECKER turns anyone into a great bartender, cranking out quality cocktails in seconds. Connect up to six bottles of your favorite spirits, then load in one of dozens of Bartesian cocktail capsules to make the perfect drink. It’s like a Keurig for cocktails. A cordless version is also in the works.

It’s time to expand your LEGO art museum with this pixelated version of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The kit brings the Japanese masterpiece to life with 1,810 LEGO bricks. The finished piece measures 20.5″ w x 15.5″ h, and comes with hangers, a Hokusai signature tile, and a QR code linked to an accompanying soundtrack.

Food and drink writers André and Tenaya Darlington turned their book Booze & Vinyl into a card-pairing game. The set includes 100 full-color cards which challenge players to combine one of fifty classic albums with a delightful cocktail pairing. Includes an 88-page recipe book with notes on the music. For 1 to 3 players.

His backpack’s got jets. He’s Boba the Fett. The OG Mandalorian flies into battle above your desktop with this light-up diorama. This official Star Wars collectible features a figure of Fett launching into the sky on a trail of smoke and fire, leaving fallen Stormtroopers in his wake. The 12.5″ tall lamp runs on any standard USB charger.

These awesome smelling handmade soaps come in Wild West-inspired fragrances like Blazing Saddles (leather, gunpowder, sagebrush, sandalwood), Home on the Range (blackberries, sun-dried laundry, fresh-cut grass), and Hair of the Dog (whiskey, tobacco, coffee). They also make body wash, candles, lotions, and more.

This cozy and artful wool blend blanket from One of These Days celebrates America’s West with a scene of a lone cowboy and his horse making their way cross the plains in search of their next drink of water. The 49″ x 60″ blanket has a crochet-stitched edge, and a reverse print on the back.

We love opening those little doors on advent calendars for sweet surprises. Eight Days of Spirits’ windows hide artisanal cocktail mixers and barrel-aged bitters by Woodford Reserve and Williams Sonoma. Festive faves include Orange, Chocolate and Cherry Bitters, and Old Fashioned, Whiskey Sour, and Spiced Apple.

Stop sipping your espresso from an ordinary cup. Instead, get your caffeine fix from the skull of your enemy. Ceramicist Texas Mud Monger makes this 4oz. slip-cast espresso cup that looks like a human skull – minus its lower jaw and skull cap. Each one is made from quality porcelain and finished with food-safe ceramic glazes.

Making mixed tapes for paramours may have gone the way of the dodo, but record lovers can still wear their vinyl on their sleeves by sending These Songs Remind Me of You notecards. Shaped like 45 singles, 12 clever all-occasion card designs by illustrator Tuesday Bassen slide into envelopes resembling single sleeves.

Celebrate your love for music and print art with Taschen’s compact (6.5″ x 8.8″) but densely-packed 512-page compendium of album art. The book features classic images from more than 750 albums, along with a fact sheet listing the key artists involved in its creation.

Does comic collecting get your Spidey senses tingling? Chronicle Books boxed 100 postcards of the greatest Spider-Man comic book covers by such artists as Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr. and Jr., and Todd McFarlane. The whole Marvel-ous gang is here, from Peter Parker to Gwen Stacy, and villains Venom, Green Goblin and Doc Ock.

This unique wine rack from artists Jeremiah and Kassy Reynolds makes a great centerpiece. Each is handmade in Arkansas using reclaimed oak staves from authentic Napa Valley wine barrels. Its curved form and cross-bars keep bottles from rolling off, and it can hold up to six bottles when stacked in a pyramid.