TrueHoop’s 2024 Eclectic Gift Guide

No one paid us, we just love this stuff

BY HENRY ABBOTT and DAVID THORPE

I suspect we’re never going to top last year’s gift guide, where Jarod ignited a run on Pillow Cubes and Travis carried the day with the line “Do you like coffee? Are you poor? Café Bustelo.”

But we’re gamers and will give it a shot. Once again, we have no positions here; we get no cut. These are just things we love and think you might love, too:

SHOKZ OpenRun Pro

DAVID: It has been a battle, over decades, to find comfortable ways to be on the phone with hands free—which is how I spend many hours every day. Some years I have a doodad I love; other times those go defunct and I have to search. Most of the products on the market I find terrible. For the last 18 months or so, the Shokz Bluetooth OpenRun Pro has been the choice, and so far so good. They don’t go in your ear, they go over them, and transmit somehow through your skull (“bone conduction,” they say). That means my earholes are free to hear my loved ones, or passing cars, which is nice. They’re adve…