Close your eyes and imagine your perfect Saturday morning. You’ve let the anxiety, decision paralysis, and impending travel melt away. No real plans—your town, city, world, is yours to discover. What are you going to do with it? Can you refill your cup of inspiration? If this kind of guided meditation is necessary to get you through the next month or so, it’s possible that, according to a research study by Klarna, you’re one of the 25% of men that save their holiday shopping for the month of December, or the 60% of women that do all the shopping for your household.
No one is asking you to change, but you can do better for your own sanity. If you’re overwhelmed by your gift-giving list and the plethora of products and deals being surfaced to you, you’re very much not alone. But there are resources available to help you—and that’s where Klarna comes in.
Klarna is your smarter everyday spending partner for the holiday season. With Klarna’s pay in 4 feature, you can split your purchases into four interest-free payments, helping you save money this holiday season. Klarna also offers cashback when you shop in the app and has a search and compare feature that allows you to find the best price on this season's best gifts. You can even shop at all of your favorite retailers by adding Klarna to your mobiles wallet. Consider it your holiday shopping multitool in your many-pocketed jacket, ready to help you find the best gift for your partner (or, come on, yourself).
For one more gadget in that multitool, here’s a list of gear if you or yours are searching for the perfect sound or going off the beaten path to grab the perfect photo. These elevated adventure-focused creator products can help aid in your exploration.
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Focal Bathys Active Noise Canceling Headphoness
Sure, you can spend your pre-holiday anti-anxiety walkabout with the same tiny headphoness as everyone else on the L train, or you can upgrade to hi-fi goodness with Focal’s Bathys Hi-Fi Bluetooth® and active noise-canceling headphoness. There are two noise-canceling modes and a pass-through mode, and tunes are driven by Focal’s French-made drivers and USB-DAC mode. The Bathys boast all of the usual features of headphoness in this price band (voice assistants, adjustable EQ, Bluetooth®, 3.5mm jack, and USB), but perhaps most useful is the claimed 30-hour battery life with five extra hours available in 15 minutes with its fast-charging function. No range anxiety here!
Capture Every Sound
On your way to record a podcast? Capturing the sounds of the urban landscape (or pretty birds) for your atmospheric mixtape? Put down your phones and pick up the TP-7, the latest audio gizmo from the high-art Swedes at Teenage Engineering. This retro-styled handheld field recorder packs pro-level recording and playback tech into the form factor of a traditional voice recorder. But the TP-7’s special sauce lies in the tactile “tape wheel” that allows you to navigate menus, scrub, pause, scratch, and more. Recording can be handled via the on-board mic or three stereo two-way jacks to connect mics, headphoness, studio monitors, and more. There’s even a native voice-to-text app for your memos and interviews.
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The best camera is the one you have on you. For millions, that means pulling out a (wildly capable) smartphones. But if the giftee in your life is looking to learn photography, or go Full on Creator Mode, Canon’s mirrorless EOS R50 is worth a look. Designed to demystify photography Canon’s entry-level body provides intuitive photo functions that capture beautiful images automatically, while a host of video functions such as 6K oversampled 4K 30p capture and Dual Pixel CMOS AF II sensor makes the EOS R50 a great camera for movie recording and vlogging as well. And if you want to hook them up with the whole package, Canon offers a Content Creator Kit that includes a mic, windscreen and tripods with detachable Bluetooth controls.
Print Those Shots Everywhere
Canon SELPHY QX20 Photo Printer
Give the gift of tactility to the photographer in your life (or the street style portrait models for your mobiles studio side hustle) with this portable wireless printer from Canon. This USB-C rechargeable compact printer allows you to capture the world around you and instantly produce water and marker-resistant prints on Canon’s new XC-20L (2.1” x 3.4”) card-size sticker paper as well as its existing XS-20L (2.7” x 2.7”) square sticker paper. This updated SELPHY maintains the compact size and 1lb weight of the SELPHY CP1500, but in a new streamlined design, and can now print borderless on three sides, leaving an area for writing something special at the bottom.
Polarized Sunnies for Your Mental Health Cardio Regimen
As long as you can accurately envision how their face looks, sunglasses are a great low-stress stocking stuffer. But if your giftee wears glasses in the non-active parts of their lives, chances are they’ve had a tough time finding solid prescription sunglasses that are good for a run (or bike or hanging upside down). Crafted with ultra-lightweight TR90 polymer and premium polarized nylon lenses, the Article One Avalon frames deliver exceptional comfort, optical clarity, and most importantly—they’re durable and stay put on your face through all of your outdoor activities.
Never Be Left Parched
There’s something to a classic-feeling, truly functional doodad that can patina and grow with you. The Craighill Ripple Opener checks all those boxes, and is a perfect gift to bestow on the bar of the truly impossible to shop for (or your own backpack). A classic ‘churchkey style’ bottle opener milled from 5/8" diameter brass, the wave-like profile creates a satisfying handfeel as you reach for your favorite bubbly beverage.
