HOMBRE Holiday Gift Guide: For The HOME
19 Dec 2020 by HOMBRE in Cuisine, Decorating, General, Gift Guide, Home, Music, Pleasure, Products, Technology, TOYS
The pandemic has brought about many changes, perhaps the greatest being the need to spend more time at home. Therefore it makes sense that we would want to create the most attractive, secure, and comfortable environment possible.
Whether it’s staying organized with smart scanners, elevating your cooking game by introducing sous vide to your menu, staying safe while away, or maintaining clean, well lit surroundings when staying in. Check below for innovation and luxury with unique and practical gift for everyone: tech-lovers, design & décor aficionados, health and wellness enthusiasts, and more, including those working from home who need to stave off the winter blues.
LIGHTING
BIOS SkyView Wellness Table Lamp
The newly released BIOS SkyView Wellness Table Lamp is the ideal gift for those seeking to start the new year with a refreshed living or work space and improved well being through an immersive design. It’s a beautiful solution to traditional indoor lighting that was designed to bring the biological benefits of natural light inside your home or workspace.
The BIOS SkyView Wellness Table Lamp merges beauty and science to improve users’ circadian rhythm – the biological process that regulates our sleep and wake cycles each day – through their pioneering SkyBlue technology. When paired with the BIOS Lighting app, the SkyView Wellness Table Lamp syncs with local daylight to cycle through four modes – Sunrise, Daytime, Sunset, and Nighttime – emulating daily changes in natural light to support the users’ wellbeing throughout the day.
$749.
Philips Hue Starter Kit
Philips Hue smart lights can help you stay productive and energized, and even maintain a natural circadian rhythm all while working from home. Through features such as time-based lighting to alert you when it’s time to wake up or take a break and specifically curated “light recipes” (Energize, Concentrate, Read, and Relax), Philips Hue allows you to tailor your lights to exactly what you need throughout the workday.
The Philips Hue Starter Kit includes four smart and energy-efficient LED bulbs, available in different color ranges and the Hue Bridge. They all work together to make your home smarter, comfortable and energy efficient.
$199.
FOR THE KITCHEN
Stainless Steel Container
This high-capacity container is durable, stain- and odor-resistant, nonreactive and easy to clean. Use it to whip some mashed potatoes, prepare pie fillings, mix cookie dough, make a large batch of eggnog and much more.
$199.95
Food Processor Attachment
This convenient attachment for the Ascent/Venturist Vitamix motor bases does all the precision slicing, chopping and processing of a premium stand-alone food processor, but without the extra weight and bulk. Use it to chop vegetables, herbs and spices for your homemade stuffing. Prepare a homemade cranberry sauce.
$199.95
Immersion Blender
This 625-watt immersion blender gives you the power to turn nearly any ingredients into finished dishes in minutes, using just one hand. Turn stringy sweet potatoes into a smooth pie filling in minutes. Quickly blend gravies and sauces. Or keep it by the bar for mixing custom holiday spirits.
$149.95
Anova Precision Cooker
Anova, the leading provider of sous vide devices, recently launched the Anova Precision Cooker, a WiFi-connected sous vide immersion circulator for home cooks.
For years, Michelin star chefs have been using sous vide to create amazing dishes every day. With the Anova Precision Cooker, you don’t have to be a chef to cook like one. No complicated setup or additional tools needed.
Availability: Anova website, Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Williams Sonoma
$199.00
FOR THE HOME OFFICE
Scanners
Working from home has brought on additional challenges of staying organized. If you find paperwork chaos all around leading imaging solutions company Fujitsu has a robust line of document scanners that are here to help take on any clutter. A great gift for you – or someone you really care about.
ScanSnap iX1500
This is the brand’s flagship scanner that provides Wi-Fi connectivity for easy, fast scanning and can manage large batches of documents. The included software – ScanSnap Home cleans up, classifies and organizes images for you, ensuring that everything is easily saved, labeled and organized without having to lift a finger.
$399.99
ScanSnap iX1500 Deluxe
For added support choose a model that gives you the iX1500 with more. This device comes with a year-long subscription to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for free, making it the perfect gift for any creative personality on your list. It also offers more flexibility with premium technological advances like Optical Character Recognition, a software that converts scanned documents into searchable and editable texts. Use the code SCANPM1 for a limited-time seasonal discount.
$449.99
ScanSnap iX100
A lightweight, on-the-go device that scans both sides of one document in under six seconds. This device also has wireless capabilities that allow the scanner to connect with your mobile device, so you get easily upload documents digitally – no PC needed. It’s a perfect gift for someone who might need to transport their scanner back and forth between home and on-the-go use.
$200.
Fujitsu Image Scanner fi-800R
This is a powerhouse scanner that holds up to 20 sheets of paper at a time and flawlessly scans hard cards, IDS and passports without a cover. It’s perfect for small to medium sized businesses, or professionals like lawyers, real estate agents, accountants and more.
$629.99
Keyboards
Fujitsu’s REALFORCE R2 PFU Limited Edition Keyboard
The perfect high-end keyboard for the gamer in your household. Its ergonomic frame is designed to bring maximum comfort to your hands and wrists, with silent key switches that allow for up to 25% faster keying than other brands. This device also offers actuation point adjustments to improve gaming speeds and accuracy with an extremely smooth key press experience.
$305.
Fujitsu’s Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional Hybrid Type S
The compact keyboard designed by programmers, for programmers. The keyboard layout was made to keep your hands stable along the home row, with a silky smooth key press experience. Fujitsu pairs its PBT texturized, dry- and shine-resistant keys with a customizable key software that allows for quicker reactions when programming.
$337.
Wireless Charging Stones
Enhance your space with a beautiful charger made from real marble and stone that can be used to recharge any Qi-enabled device, including the newest iPhones and Samsung phones, by simply setting it on the stone surface. The Wireless Charging Stones are available in black or white marble, travertine stone, lava stone or sandstone and each one is unique due to the natural swirls and patterns found on the stone.
Wireless Charging Stones from Eggtronic.
$44.95
HOME SECURITY
The YoLink product line has the perfect gift for homeowners that are looking for peace of mind in terms of monitoring the security and maintenance of their home, without worrying about having enough bandwidth to power smart devices using LoRa’s technology.
These Smart products send immediate alerts if a door is opened, there is a leak etc., and have battery life five times longer than other products. All products use Semtech’s LoRa wireless technology combined with the YoSmart smart home/building protocol, providing low-power consumption, long-distance coverage (wall penetration), easy setup and anti-interference.
YoLink Starter Kit
This kit includes YoLink Central Hub, Wireless Door and Window Sensor, Water Leak Sensor, and Smart Plug Compatible with Voice Control from Alexa or Google Assistant
$59.99
YoLink Smart Home Security Kit:
Includes YoLink Hub, Smart Plug Mini, Siren Alarm, Water Leak Sensor, Motion Sensor, Temp Humidity Sensor, and 2 Door Sensors
$179.
B-hyve has an extensive product line to protect your grounds, while you’re home or away.
B–hyve Floor Sensor
With a compact design and ability to connect to the B–hyve smartphone app, this flood sensor offers immediate alert detection of any leaks, flooding or even frozen pipes through your phone or an audible alarm. It fits in hard to reach spaces and delivers notifications to your phone the moment something is wrong in your home. The sensors can even integrate with the B–hyve line of products and can be programmed to turn off outdoor watering activities if they detect any sign of flooding.
(starter kit is $99)
B-hyve Hose Faucet Timer
Connects to any hose faucet and makes it smart, allowing users to automate, manage and optimize the entire watering process. Users can manage everything from potted plants and container gardens to pet water bowls and even entire lawns.
$69.
B–hyve XR Smart Sprinkler timer
Newest and most advanced indoor/outdoor sprinkler timer built with powerful tech that extends the reach of the signal to all corners of the yard and makes the setup seamless even for those with the most basic tech knowledge.
$149.B-hyve Wifi Timer
For homeowners with an in-ground sprinkling system, this timer has all the smarts to make sure you automatically use the right amount of water with little effort. Can be set up indoors or outdoors and will save water and money.
$99.
STAY CLEAN
HOOVER has launched two powerful and easy to use vacuums to simplify your life — HOOVER ONEPWR Evolve Pet Cordless Upright Vacuum and the HOOVER ONEPWR HEPA+ Cordless Upright Vacuum. These new vacuums combine the cleaning power of a full-size upright vacuum with the convenience, simplicity, and maneuverability of a lightweight cordless design.
ONEPWR Evolve Pet
Recently introduced, the HOOVER ONEPWR Evolve Pet Cordless Upright Vacuum offers the power and capacity of a corded upright, yet it’s cordless, compact and weighs 50% less. It makes cleaning easy and convenient, especially for pet owners, with an antimicrobial brush roll and pet filter to help prevent the growth of odor-causing bacteria. It powerfully lifts embedded pet hair and dirt from your carpets and hard floors. It holds 3x more dirt and pet hair than a stick vacuum, with a larger dirt cup for fewer trips to the trash.
$199.99.
ONEPWR HEPA+ (Bagged) Upright
Just launched, the HOOVER ONEPWR HEPA+ Cordless Upright Vacuum offers the full-size cleaning power of an upright and the convenience, simplicity and ease of a lightweight cordless design. It delivers power-packed cleaning with HEPA filtration that helps protect against dirt, dust and debris, and is perfect for allergy sufferers and homes with pets. The two-speed multi-floor fingertip control is ideal for transitioning from heavy-duty carpet cleaning to hard floor cleaning. Plus, it’s designed with 5-layers of filtration that comes with HOOVER’s Dirt Trap technology, automatically trapping and locking in 4x more dirt and debris than a bagless vacuum.
$299.99.