Walking while you work
If you can walk and type on your laptop at the same time, maybe you’re a candidate for an under-desk treadmill. The Sunny Health & Fitness Walkstation Slim Treadmill comes fully assembled and fits under most standup desks. The remote control adjusts speed to as slow as 0.5 mph, enabling the user to walk while focusing on work. The digital monitor shows your time, speed, calories burned, steps and distance. $370, sunnyhealthfitness.com
Customized retro
Before virtual reality, kids would slide a cardboard disk into the View-Master and look at stereoscopic 3D images of national parks, famous tourist spots and Walt Disney movie scenes. RetroViewer lets you do that with your own photos. Image3D can create a novel gift by sending a reel viewer and a redemption code to order and customize a reel with seven digital photos along with text and center art that you can crop and edit on its website. Images taken by a 3D camera will be 3D, and standard images also will work. $30, myretroviewer.com
Social printing
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link 2 is the party photo printer. The pocket-size gadget uses Instax Mini film to print 2-by-3-inch photos from your smartphone in about 12 seconds (90 seconds of development time after printing). If you are attending a party with friends and family or an event with clients, they can send images from their phone to yours, which connects to the portable printer through Bluetooth. Each cartridge can print about 100 photos per charge, and the printer has a USB port for charging. The free app enables users to customize photos with graphics, sketches, collage-style and predesigned frames that can be overlaid on images and add QR codes to show videos. You can also snap stills from video. $100, fujifilm.com
Laser typing
It’s not the holographic board game seen in “Star Wars,” but a laser projection keyboard does look like high tech straight out of a sci-fi movie and could be useful if you need to type a long email or report through your phone. Heartbeat Laser Projection Keyboard has a bracket that can support a smartphone or tablet and projects a virtual standard English keyboard with big, rounded keys and a touch function that enables the user to zoom in and out of images and turn pages. Works with Bluetooth and can connect with desktop computers and video games. Supports Windows, iOS and Android. $70, amazon.com
Recall what you read
Do you forget details and key ideas from books you just read? Readwise is software built on top of reading platforms like Kindle, iBooks, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads and Instapaper that allows you to capture your highlights. The app then sends you a daily email so you can get into the habit of reviewing what you’ve read. Readwise also enables you to save what you think is important from hard copy books and papers by using your smartphone camera. Monthly subscription is $4.49 after free 30-day trial, readwise.io
Refresh in a puff
Get steamed fast. The Rowenta X’Cel Steam+ Garment Steamer is ready to use in just 40 seconds to release wrinkles from clothes and sanitize household items like curtains and furniture. The handheld device has different modes for everything from delicates to thick fabrics. It works with tap water, and the 6.76-ounce tank provides continuous steam for up to 10 minutes. $56, rowentausa.com
Smart wallet
Ever misplaced your wallet at home or anywhere else and wished it had a tracker? The Ekster Parliament is a slim wallet that is GPS enabled. A solar-powered Bluetooth tracker, about the size of a credit card and sold separately, enables you to see the wallet’s location through an app or hear where it is by pinging it with your phone. The wallet has RFID-blocking technology to protect from skimmers, and a trigger button makes your credit cards slide up and down for easy access. $90, ekster.com
Thwart the pickpocket
Looking for a shoulder or crossbody bag that can defy a thief with a utility knife? Baggallini offers a collection of lightweight and water-resistant bags, backpacks and travel gear made with slash-resistant fabric and straps as well as anti-theft features like locking zippers, secret compartments and radio-frequency identification (RFID) blocking. Some purses, hobo bags and backpacks also have a grommeted cord opening that allows you to thread headphones through the bag so you can listen to music while keeping your phone safely inside. $75 to $110, baggallini.com
Singing in the shower
Hit the hot-water high notes with Ampere Shower Power. The Bluetooth shower speaker is powered by the flow of water that spins the mini turbine inside. The cylindrical design plays sound evenly in all directions and can play for 16 hours when fully charged. The big touch buttons allow for playing, pausing and skipping tracks. The speaker fits onto any rain, fixed or handheld showerhead and is made from recycled ocean plastic. $99, ampere.shop
