Gallery: 12 Creative Gifts to Indulge Your Wild Imagination
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[Rhodia Pencils](http://www.rhodiapads.com/) $9 for 3 | Where’d that damn pencil go? Probably rolled off the table again. Don’t risk a back sprain trying to reach for it; buy a set of these scribblers instead. The triangular shape keeps them where you left them, and the black linden-wood innards look plain gorgeous.
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[Blockitecture Habitat](http://www.areaware.com/collections/new/products/blockitecture) $25 | Any average toddler can stack blocks. Cantilevering, on the other hand, that’s the kind of thing more advanced children—your children, for example—might do. Hand your prodigies this set of specially notched blocks and let them dream up buildings as unconventional as Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67.
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[Hardcore Hammers the Original](http://shophardcorehammers.com/index.php/hammers/hatchets/hardcore-hammer-the-original-curved-natural.html) $79 | The curved hickory handle on this double- duty beauty shows how elegant one of humanity’s oldest tools can be. The head’s recessed grippy surface lets you use it as a framing hammer, while the outer rim eliminates the need for a delicate finish hammer to complete the job.
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[Makerbot Replicator Desktop 3-D Printer](http://store.makerbot.com/replicator) $2,899 | It’s not as high- powered as the *Star Trek* replicators, but this tabletop 3-D printer has a clever, easy-to-grok UI. Its 100-micron-layer resolution affords stunningly precise prints too. The plastic filament it uses to create objects comes in dozens of colors and types, including composites that mimic the feel of stone and iron.
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[Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Synthesizers](https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/po) $59 each | Musicians walk to the beat of their own drum. These pocket-sized synths let them create electronic symphonies as they strut. Each of the three options—melody maker, bass synth, and drum machine—features an LCD control screen.
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[Fiftythree Pencil](http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil) $50 | This was the original Pencil, and even Apple’s new iPad Pro-only stylus can’t measure up to FiftyThree’s writing implement—it works with the iPhone, the iPad, and a number of iOS apps. Broad and comfortable, it may even make your chicken scratch look more like calligraphy. Keep one in your bag for the times when you can’t quite turn that idea into words.
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[Relish Jane Guitar](http://relishguitars.ch/guitar.php) $5,250 | One not-so-electric thing about playing an electric guitar: toggling the three-way pickup switch. Relish nixes the switch with hassle-free LED touch sensors on its forward- thinking, Swiss-crafted instrument. Available in ash, cherry, and walnut, it’s sleeker and sexier than you’re used to, so maybe don’t smash it to pieces at the end of the first set.
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[Fabriano Ecoqua Notebook](http://savoirfaire.com/store-locations/) $4 and up | Time to upgrade your sketchbook. Fabriano’s colorful and elegant notebooks promote guilt-free writing and doodling, thanks to their environmentally friendly papers and inks. Choose from eight colors, or buy them all and fill every page with the contents of your brain.
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[Leica M Monochrom 2 (Type 246)](http://us.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/LEICA-M-MONOCHROM2) $7,450 (Body Only) | In the song “Kodachrome,” Paul Simon sings that everything looks worse in black and white. Not so, Mr. Simon—the black-and-white-only M Monochrom takes stunning pictures, and Leica says the 24-megapixel full-frame sensor in this updated model captures more light, detail, and sharpness than many color shooters out there.
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[DXO One](http://www.dxo.com/us/dxo-one) $599 | This little lensman snaps into your iPhone’s Lightning port. Paired with its app, the One takes over photo duties from the phone’s built-in shooter, giving you a higher-quality system that matches the capabilities of an honest-to-goodness point-and-shoot camera—a light-slurping f/1.8 lens and 20.2 megapixels of image-capture goodness.
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[Photojojo Lens Set](http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/cell-phone-lenses/) $99 | Your smartphone’s camera is already pretty damn good. Make it even better with Photojojo’s set of add-on lenses. Each of the five aluminum-and-glass lenses fastens to Apple and Android phones via magnets, and they even work with many popular cases. Instagram filters will look like amateur hour compared to the results from these.
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[Sony A7S II](http://www.sony.net/Products/di/en-us/products/dkw5/) $3,000 | If you’re shopping for a pro-quality DSLR, Sony’s flagship is one of the hottest buys this season. Its 12.4-megapixel full-frame sensor focuses fast, shoots 4K video, and practically sees in the dark (ISO extends to 409,600). A five-axis stabilization system keeps everything steady. Attach any of Sony’s E-mount lenses, or use an adapter to deploy your preferred vintage glass.
