The Best Gifts for Women in 2018

Grasslamp designer Marko Vuckovic has developed an award-winning way to combat the darkness, melancholy, and ugliness of being indoors: a grassy knoll for your desktop. Sure, you could fill the space with a houseplant, or a low-maintenance succulent for a lot less, but Vuckovic's Grasslamp brings with it a smooth modern design, LED lighting for your space, and a dirt-free existence.

The Grasslamp cultivates its wheatgrass, or other micro-greens, using only water and LED light. You don't have mess around with, or make a mess with, soil here. The LEDs simulate sunlight, so you also don't have to worry about Grasslamp placement in the home or office.

With their Inverted Umbrella EEZ-Y has managed to make the first umbrella turned inside out I don't want to throw on the ground and stomp on because it's turned inside out. And in fact, when this double-sided rain shield's canopy is open, its layers are strong and windproof. The Inverted part doesn't happen until you want to put the umbrella down and head inside, at which point a reverse closing system kicks in and flips it over before retracting the telescoping handle instead of lowering it. The benefit: no dripping wet umbrella rubbing all over your clothes when you get in / out of the car, and no water puddles on the floor.

The LoafNest kit consists of a 2-piece oval cast iron dome, with a removable silicone liner that sits inside the bottom piece. When baking bread the liner prevents your dough from sticking, and the dome injects it with 360-degree heat - dutch oven-style, but shaped like a loaf of bread.

The benefit of using the dutch oven and liner is that they do all the work for you, eliminating the need to knead, shape, and fuss with your bread dough to prep it. You preheat the LoafNest in the oven for at least 45 minutes, and then dump your risen dough into the liner to bake for another 45 or so.

Prior to that, you'll spend 5 minutes or less measuring out flour, water, salt, and yeast (for the basic recipe) and then about 18 hours sticking the dough in a corner and letting it rise. (Yes, I said it was a super easy process, not a super fast one.)

This 46"-tall wine glass is both a step up and a step down from the Guzzle Buddy.

Step up: it holds way more wine. Maybe even a Nebuchadnezzar's worth, though the only measurement I can find for the glass is its 46" height, no info on the globe's volume. Suffice it to say, though, that could be one big ass glass of Cab to drown your sorrows - maybe even your whole body if you're not careful! - in.

Step down: despite holding an enormous amount of delicious wine, the 46" tall wine glass presents no good way of drinking from it. No super long straw. No extra-large sippy cup lid. Not even an oversized ladle for transferring wine from 46" glass to 7" glass punch bowl-style.

Package thieves be gone! BoxLock, answering the call of necessity...or the call of mother...or however you apply that invention saying...was developed in response to the giant leap in our online shopping habits, and the corresponding rise in package theft. The post office, UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, whomever delivers the goods she got on Prime Day or the handcrafted Bowchair you ordered for the two of you, is probably going to leave the boxes they come in on your porch. Alone. Exposed. Beacons for burgling hands. The BoxLock padlock system aims to provide a secure, but accessible, a smart way to lock up your boxes when they're delivered.

Like a fine wine, and your wife or girlfriend, this lady toy just keeps getting better. The Womanizer shown here comes in Deluxe, Pro, and XL versions, all waterproof and with 8 levels of intensity.

The German-made toy lures in ladies and the hapless, gift-buying men in their lives with its PleasureAir technology, a feature that stimulates the clitoris without direct contact. No, I don't know why that translates to longer, more intense, multiple, and no-fail orgasms either, but the number of reviews containing the word "amazing" in them suggests touchless clitoral stimulation isn't just pseudoscience or lip service.