Highly compact and portable air purifiers prove very useful during the holiday season when families and friends come together. They remove contaminants like smoke dust volatile organic compounds and possibly even microbes though efficacy in that regard is hardly proven. Dont count on air purifiers to protect you against possible infections but do look to them for a fresher more pleasant indoor environment whether at home a hotel, or a family members house. These come in all shapes and sizes from hand warmers to devices that heat up entire rooms and even double as air purifiers. Regardless, all aim to keep you warm on a personal level without having to rely exclusively on central heating or bulky heaters at home. Likewise many personal heaters offer great portability so theyre easy to take with you out into the cold, providing hours of close quarters warmth so you don’t need to bundle up like a big, ungainly bear. Give humans enough time and they’ll think of everything. We now live in the age of smart mugs that keep your coffee tea or other beverage of For many of us remote controls require an entire section of our living space. We live in an age when fridges and microwave ovens have remotes, not to mention the a couple of streaming boxes, air con, and who knows what else. Were gradually drowning in remotes. Enter universal remote controls 2020 style. These standalone Bluetooth NFC and enabled compact pillars pair with your phone to turn it into a remote for virtually every device in your home. Sure there may be exceptions but this new generation of smart control is very sleek and you should look into it. The latest smart speakers should more accurately be referred to as smart speaker-listeners because they all work with Alexa and Google Assistant so you can talk to them. And they talk back. Of course all of them play music and other audio wirelessly or in wired mode and pair with devices through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Theyre small but provide pretty powerful audio make sure you dont bother anyone the holidays are a time for rest and most offer long battery life. As a side note keep in mind good portable projectors double as Bluetooth speakers although typically without support for voice input.