What men think cool gift - opinion Layfhakera edition
Holidays / / December 19, 2019
Collectible figurines
It can be superheroes, characters from cartoons, movies and TV shows, musicians. Yes, it is impractical gift, but valuable. Especially myself it is unlikely to buy.
Danya Berkovskiy
Designer.
I have a dual attitude to the impractical gifts like plastic figures characters cartoons and night-light in the shape of stars. On the one hand, each of them - a dust collector, which is not needed, but on the other hand, sometimes they are so cool and beautiful, they help a few minutes to escape from work and visual relax.
The cost figures can be different: the price of the original model of the famous series start at about 1 000. The main thing is do not give cheap fakes: it's a shame.
Video Games
We do not just rejoice in such gifts - we use them. If your friend is playing in the console, there is always the fallback.
Eugene Lazovsky
Author.
I engaged in a photo, so I love to receive a gift in everything connected with it: the book, some small accessories. Video games there too - forever regret the money on them, so when I give them genuinely happy.
Wooden kits
complex Wood constructors - an interesting problem on which to work nicely. They have little to do with the toys: the elaborate technological models that quality made and look expensive.
Anton Martynov
Author.
I really like the gifts that help develop thinking and create something with their own hands. It would be cool to get one DIY-kit assembly unpretentious synthesizer or designer with lots of details would have to work hard on that.
Sergei Varlamov
Head of distribution.
Always glad gifts related to my hobbies: some things for sports or intellectual games. For example, I had an experience of assembling wooden designer - a process different from the classical, one must be careful, but it is very addictive.
If you've seen wooden designers with friends, most likely, they made Ukrainian company UGEARS. The project started in 2015 with the help of kraudfandingovoy Kickstarter platform. Recognizable for several years, and became the model gained popularity: even we managed to get in the wording of a stringed instrument "Hardy Hardyยป.
Designers UGEARS made of quality plywood with a characteristic smell of wood. Details of precision laser cut and fit perfectly: for the assembly does not need to get your hands dirty with glue. Models are not static: there are elements each, which may be driven. For example, start a timer or make a horse walk on wooden mechanical legs. It is at once an expensive souvenir, and technological device, and puzzle.
The official shop of about fifty designers of varying complexity. For example, the assembly of the model of "Locomotive tender c V-Express" of 538 parts may take a whole day.
Many pleasant moments of our childhood are associated with designers. We could build a clock tower, lay railroads and fit body to the trucks. Wooden models from UGEARS - these are the designers, but "at maximum speed." Collect them interesting at any age, and the complexity of some of the model is not for children. Combining the parts can be for a few hours to forget about work and any other problems and nice ponostalgirovat.
Readers Layfhakera UGEARS gives a 20% discount on the promotional code LIFEHACKER when you buy in the official store.
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Beautiful book or comic
Here it is worth paying attention to the external appearance of publication: nice to have a book with delicious smelling glossy pages and beautiful cover, and let it costs more than usual.
Alexey Khromov
Author.
I love getting things for free is not as useful as beautiful. For example, collection editions of books or comics. It seems that all this can be read in electronic form, but when on the shelf stands a beautiful book, and even donated a good man, and it tastefully and pleasantly.
Gadgets on the radio
At its pulsating, riding or flying devices, particularly high chances to please us.
Oleg Imideev
Operator.
Usually we have with my girlfriend all the gifts are reduced to photographic and video equipment. But since my childhood I wanted to gather a collection of different designers and for a long time want to gift some small quadrocopter.
quality tools
We are always pleased to see that we can use for other purposes. Repair the outlet, to change the loop at the kitchen cupboard, impaled falling off the plinth - a solution to all these household tasks it requires a good tool. Screwdrivers, wrenches, screwdrivers and hammers - even if these simple devices not be happy at once, to save money when the time comes to repair.
Anton Martynov
Author.
Close friends know that I'm always happy interesting thing for hobbies, tools and stylish clothes. A set of screwdrivers cool T-shirt with the logo of one of the favorite bands and a pocket synthesizer - these are things that have pleased me lately.
turntable
Good turntable please any music lover. We have a bunch of vinyl objective and subjective advantages over the familiar digital media: the nuances Analog sound, visual work of mechanics, interesting process from the plate to the statement on the acquisition it needles.
Alexey Khromov
Author.
Recently I received from his wife as a present player for vinyl, stylized American classics - suitcase with nice upholstery and a classical arrangement of knobs. Again, all the kinds of music I have on the computer. But is not it nice to put a plate of Glenn Miller on old player and listen to it with a slight crackling vinyl.