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The fact that your gadgets are functional doesn't mean they can't also be fashionable. Watch as our own Connie Wang and Gin Lane Media's Rebecca Zhou walk through the season's coolest (and chicest) tech accessories...and reveal the five most essential (and free!) apps you'll need to survive the holidays.
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00:09Hi this is Connie from Refinery29 and we are at Refinery29 Tinseltown, an extra
00:13special winter wonderland of holiday shopping. I'm here with Rebecca Zhou from
00:18Ginlay Media and today we're going to be talking about outfitting your other
00:21best friends this holiday season, your gadgets. I understand that you're going
00:26to be going through some apps that we should be downloading at the very end of
00:29this episode but first we're going to go over the products that we have to offer
00:32on Tinseltown. Let's start with my favorite thing which is the Refinery29
00:36iPhone case and this is made with uncommon and we actually have three
00:40styles your phone is wearing one and my phone is wearing one. It comes in the
00:44iPhone 4 which is that and the iPhone 5 which is mine and these are really great
00:51cases that are designed by our own designers at Refinery29 and they retail
00:55for 42 dollars which is really awesome. Pointing to our lovely hand model here
01:02these are texting gloves and the thing about texting gloves is that they're
01:05usually really really ugly right so the reason that these gloves work versus your
01:10normal glove is that the fabric here can conduct act as a conductor of the
01:15electricity from your fingertips so that's kind of actually strange to hear
01:18but your fingers give off this electric current that your phone screen can pick up so
01:22these gloves are great because they allow that current to continue even though
01:26while keeping your hands warm. So you can text you can do whatever you want without
01:30having to take your gloves off which is awesome during the winter time. Totally. Cool and
01:34these are 48 dollars again and these are from Bougie Baja. Let's move on to these
01:41iPad cases they're really really really thick and they're from Bagu and so what
01:45kind of what kind of iPad user would like these cases? Well as you said they're very
01:50thick so they're super durable so for every day taking them to work if you're
01:54traveling if you're sticking in a backpack with a bunch of other stuff it'll
01:59totally hold up which is great. Yeah and these are actually pretty affordable
02:03they're 28 dollars and they come in two styles the coral and this beautiful
02:07sailor stripe and they're so comfortable like you have to feel the inside of them
02:11they're like a sweatshirt. I know your iPad probably doesn't have any feelings but
02:15if it did it'd be really comfortable in there and we also have these iPad cases
02:19from Native X and they're made with a Pendleton fabric a real Pendleton fabric
02:23with a leather closure and they're a lot thinner actually than the baggy ones. Right so
02:27if you have like a smaller bag that you just got to slip something into this
02:31would be great. Yeah so it protects against like nicks and like scratches and
02:34everything and I mean these are just awesome you probably have a sat sweats print
02:38item of your own. Now your iPad case gets one as well and these are 48 dollars.
02:45And last but definitely not least we have the Olivia Harris by Joy Grison
02:50tech wallet and this is I know I already said that the phone case was my
02:54favorite thing but this is like forget I said that this is my favorite favorite
02:57favorite thing. I have one in the back here it's silver and we also have one in
03:01bronze it's 98 dollars and I mean if you're going out this is literally all you
03:07need to take with you instead of like the big bulky clutch or something or your
03:10regular handbag like how little is this. So the cool thing is you open it up you
03:16put your cards in here your cash your keys in here and in the center is where
03:22your phone lives it holds iPhone 4s if you squeeze your iPhone 5 in there it can
03:27fit but it's made for iPhone 4s with a case without a case and look at how cute it
03:31is. Just this right there. Cool so I understand you have five apps to download to
03:42make our lives easier right? Yeah so the five apps I picked are to make our life
03:47easier during this holiday season. The first thing is Hotel Tonight which is an
03:52app that allows you to get same-day holiday deals so you'll get a hotel for 50 to 70
03:57percent off so the standard in New York instead of being around five hundred
04:00dollars a night will be three hundred dollars a night. The second app that I
04:03have is called Gojee, G-O-J-E-E and it's a food and drink app and so the
04:09reason I like this versus like usual recipe websites is you can put in
04:14ingredients that you want to use and ingredients you don't want to use so you
04:17can say I have chicken in my refrigerator but I hate cilantro and I'll
04:21give you a bunch of recipes that kind of you know agree to what you're putting in
04:25and it has really big pictures it's really beautiful and all the recipes
04:28are sourced from the best food blogs on the internet. The third app that I had is
04:32Supply so for shopping I guess for finding things that you would want for
04:37the holidays or finding things the perfect gift for your friends and family
04:40Supply is a great way to kind of search and sort through gifts from male
04:45female you can put certain price restraints and then the fourth app that I
04:50have is called letterpress and it's bought kind of like boggle I don't know
04:55if you remember that game where you have a bunch of letters and you can make
04:57words right so it's that with a bit of a twist and it's super fun it has like a
05:02really beautiful interface and you and a family member can kind of play a word
05:06game and then the last thing I have is TaskRabbit which is a bit more of like a
05:11utility type of app but everyone knows during the holidays you're so busy you
05:15have all these last-minute errands you have to run or maybe you have to sneak out to get
05:19your significant other a gift and TaskRabbit be your best friend so what you
05:22can do is list any type of task on TaskRabbit and they'll find someone to do
05:26it for you so those are the five apps that you should definitely download this
05:29holiday season I think they're all free actually well that's which is cool yeah
05:33they're all free so thank you Rebecca for coming on I learned a lot oh no
05:37problem thank you for having me time to remember everything you saw here today is
05:41shoppable so you like something just click go buy it keep watching keep
05:45shopping Refinery 29 tinsel town so keep shopping keep watching this is your
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