Pour les curieux
Netatmo ORIGINAL weather station
Garden weather and living-room air quality
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Our pick
Aura Carver
10.1-inch Wi-Fi digital photo frame (Sea Salt)
Ideal for: Family photos on a sideboard or a bedside table.
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A connected photo frame with a 10.1-inch HD screen, filled from the Aura app on iPhone or Android. Invited family and friends send photos and videos from anywhere, with no subscription and no upload limit, and a built-in speaker plays the sound of videos.
- What it does10.1-inch HD screen at 1280 × 800, unlimited uploads from the app, speaker for videos
- Powermains-powered, 2.4 or 5 GHz Wi-Fi, automatic on and off
- Format10.5 × 7.3 × 2.1 inches (about 26.7 × 18.5 × 5.3 cm), landscape orientation
Avoid ifThe person has no Wi-Fi at home, or nobody around them to send photos: the frame lives on what people send through the app.
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Why this model
The photo frame the family fills from their phones, with no subscription.
If you give only one, make it the Aura Carver photo frame in Sea Salt: the family sends photos to it from their phones, with no subscription, and it sits on a sideboard or a bedside table like a real frame. It is the tech gift that gets used every day without asking anything of the person who receives it.
For someone who loves good lighting, the cordless Flos Bellhop, designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, shines for up to 24 hours far from any socket. For someone curious about the weather or air quality, the second-generation Netatmo ORIGINAL station in Sand measures indoors and outdoors in two aluminium cylinders you will not want to hide.
Read the full guideAura Carver
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What matters when choosing
- Beautiful even when switched off
- A decorative gift spends most of its time at rest. All three have a shape and finish that hold their own on a shelf, even when not in use.
- Easy for the person receiving it
- A tech gift that needs an hour of setup ends up back in its box. Here, a free app or a single button is all it takes.
- A use that comes back every day
- Family photos, evening light, the morning weather: each one answers a daily habit, which keeps it on display instead of in a drawer.
