Gadgets

E-noteworthy

Amazon’s latest Kindle is their first foray into the e-note market. Whilst still first and foremost an e-book reader, the Kindle Scribe’s e-note features are good first outing. It boasts a 10.2 inch front-lit e-ink screen with 300ppi which is Wacom-certified, so you can use almost any e-note stylus. You can take notes, draw, edit PDFs and you can make notes in kindle books (although you can currently only see these in the Scribe). It comes in 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of RAM versions, with WiFi, a USB-C charging port and a battery-free stylus.

Amazon Kindle Scribe Amazon.com US$340–500

Foodfight victor

Buying gifts around the holidays can be a stressful affair. We all have that one person who has everything and is nigh on impossible to buy for. Vancouver’s MMX may well have the solution: A marshmallow crossbow. Confused? So were we, but it is exactly what it says: a sturdily crafted wood and metal crossbow that fires marshmallows in place of the traditional bolts, allowing the wielder to get an order of magnitude more serious in a food fight. The possibilities are both endless and foolish.

Marshmallow Crossbow mmxvancouver.com US$100-140

Cleansed

For outdoorsy types, staying hydrated is very important, but lugging around litres of water is tiring to say the least. Grayl have come up with an ergonomic solution — the UltraPress Ti Purifier is a half-litre water bottle and filter. It’s inner bottle filters the water you collect in the outer sleeve, a bit like a French press, to make almost any water drinkable, removing viruses, protozoa, bacteria, particulates, chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and heavy metals. You can also use drink mixes like electrolytes in it and the outer sleeve is made of titanium so it can used to heat water on a stove or campfire. The filter is rated for 300 presses, and the whole thing weighs just 400g.

Grayl UltraPress Ti Purifier grayl.com US$200