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Mobile Induction Heat Plate 902

Mobile Induction Heat Plate 902

Mobile Induction Heat Plate 902

Loves Heat, Will Travel

Reading The Big Trip inspired you to enjoy the great outdoors, explore the world and travel to faraway lands, but that doesn’t mean you should ever have to reheat your small batch Columbian medium roast coffee over an open fire like you live in a shanty. The solution? The incredible Mobile Induction Heat Plate 902 (TBA) from the great minds at the Electrolux Design Lab. This easy to carry, compact heat plate requires no wires and can be controlled entirely from an app on your smart-phone. The app allows you to control its functions remotely, make it child-safe, and even set its own cooking time by reading NFC-tags on intelligent food packaging. (Seriously!) It features a wooden handle and a glossy black and white design on the induction plate. From the beaches of Indonesia to the grassy hills of Central Park, always have a hot meal and never let a good cup of coffee go cold.

Miniskull Speakers

Miniskull Speakers

Miniskull Speakers

That Song In Your Head

Finally! After years of construction, your four-story Mexican hacienda in Isla Mujeres is move-in ready. Except now you have to actually decorate it. You’re pretty good to go with the “Maracas” bedroom on the third floor and the “Sombrero” bathroom just off the eastern veranda, but what to do with the “Day of the Dead” gameroom? Besides lining the walls with Kah Tequila bottles, how about picking up a few of these Mini Skull Speakers? ($2,161) Beautifully crafted by illustrator/designers Kuntzel and Deygas, these skull-shaped speakers deliver a great sound, with a subwoofer at 50 watts. Use them with your iDevices, or with your computer. Then just put “La Isla Bonita” on loop and you’re good to go. BUY

Napsack By Poler

Napsack By Poler

Napsack By Poler

Feeling Nippy?

Despite the plethora of body heat you and Helga manage to generate, nights at the Finnish Ice Hotel can get nippy. If you had it your way, you’d never leave the warmth of your mink and chinchilla blankets, though that seems insanely impractical (how would you use your ice luge?). Instead, we’d like to suggest the next best thing—The Napsack. ($130) It’s pretty much a sleeping bag you can wear, with zippers at the shoulders you can open to stick your arms out, and a cinch at the bottom you can undo to pop your legs out. It even has pockets by your hips and in the chest, so there’s plenty of storage for the other kind of nips—i.e. the tiny bottles of Smirnoff the Helga swiped from the plane. BUY

Glowbar

Glowbar

Glowbar

Crowbar + Glowing = Glowbar

When your shipment of antique Balinese furniture arrives on the dock at midnight, and your useless personal assistant forgot his Black Ronin Tomahawk AND the Striker Magnetic Light Mines, it’s up to you to bust out your Glowbar ($49.99 – $79.99) and show ‘em who’s boss. There’s really not much to explain here—it’s a crowbar that glows. Genius. In more complicated terms, it’s a high-carbon steel crowbar that’s coated with a new Silicate-Aluminium-Oxide-based powder so it glows up to ten times brighter than conventional glow-in-the-dark items, and hundreds of times brighter than your run-of-the-mill black crowbars. Now, after all the ooh’ing and ahhh’ing, let’s say we bust this crate open and marvel at the carved intricacies of your beautiful new Balinese Ceremonial Wedding Bed. And DON’T scratch the teak. BUY

SteriPEN Freedom UV Water Purifier

SteriPEN Freedom UV Water Purifier

SteriPEN Freedom UV Water Purifier

Drink Up

When even The Diddy, mastermind of the infamous White Party, gives you props for being a fabulous host (your Chartreuse Party was off the hizzy), you know you’re doing alright. But as far as hosting duties go, you draw the line at parasites. The SteriPEN Freedom UV Water Purifier ($120) uses UV light to clean your drinking water and ensure that you won’t have any uninvited intestinal guests. The ultraviolet energy emitted by the light is absorbed by the cells of the microbe, preventing cell enzymes from “reading” its DNA. Screwy DNA means the microbes can’t reproduce and make you sick. SteriPEN safely purifies 16oz. (0.5L) in just 48 seconds, and kills 99.9% of harmful microorganisms, like Flesh Eating Bacteria, Cholera (which is SO 1800’s), E. coli, the Giardia parasite, Hepatitis A, B, C, and D, and Salmonella, just to name a few. Sorry, fellas—you’re not on the list. BUY