Guide • April 28, 2015

11 Gift Ideas for the Connected Mom

These Mother's Day gifts are guaranteed to make you her favorite child

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If her phone dies when she’s on the run, she should have a lipstick-sized USB charger she can forget in her purse and dig out in dire circumstances. Resourceful!

Available at Amazon, $12.99.
Markus Lupfer Case

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Markus Lupfer designed this pop-art-style case for her phone so she can look hip when picking up your dinner-interrupting calls about cat litter recommendations.

Available at Net-A-Porter, $70.
The Bouqs

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The Bouqs ships gorgeous blossoms straight from the farm within 2-4 days of cutting (compared to 10-14 days with other services). The result? Gorgeous blossoms that last longer, and a happier mom.

Available at thebouqs.com.
Dwellable

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Picture Mom with a cold drink on the beach. Now picture her reaction to you surprising her with a really cheap rental in an incredible location, almost anywhere in the world. Now picture a better gift.

Available at dwellable.com.
Vivosmart

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Give her a sense of her fitness progress by displaying steps, calories, and distance walked. Give her a grasp of her phone notifications with vibrating alerts. Give her a cool looking activity tracker that does it all.

Available at garmin.com, $149.99.
GreenIQ

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Mom loves her garden. Help her take care of it from anywhere with this smart sensor that connects to her phone. It’ll sense light and moisture and feed info back to make sure her plants get fed when they need it.

Available at greeniq.co, $249.
Impossible Project

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She loves getting family photos, but misses having big photobooks to pull off the shelves. The compromise: Hook her phone or tablet up to this super-savvy, easy-to-use printer and create beautiful prints.

Available at the-impossible-project.com, $249.
Mr. Coffee Smart Optimal Brew

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Nothing should happen before her first cup of coffee, including having to make said cup. Now Mom can brew a cuppa from bed with a Wemo-enabled coffeemaker that will get bubbling from anywhere.

Available at mrcoffee.com, $149.99.
Ricky Bag with Light

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No more fumbling blindly through her bag in plays or dark restaurants. This chic bag from Ralph is equipped with LED lights that discretely display its contents, with energy to spare to charge her phone, too.

Available from Ralph Lauren, $5000.
Ringly

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A beautiful, 18K gold ring with a black onyx, emerald, pink sapphire, tourmalated quartz, or rainbow moonstone gem. Cool, right? Even cooler is that it’s hooked up to an app and vibrates based on the phone notifications of her choice.

Available for pre-order at ringly.com, starting at $195.00.
YogaGlo

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The only way yoga could be more relaxing is if Mom could do it right from home. Gift her a few sessions of online yoga sessions that she can take from her computer, phone, or tablet. She’ll get over 2,500 classes to choose from, and it’s free for 15 days.

Available at yogaglo.com, $18/mo.