Gift Giving Guy

Nineteen million students start in U.S. colleges this fall. Welcome your college-bound student to campus with quirky gifts from PerpetualKid.com. I selected 14 dorm warming gifts for the Class of 2014.

		#1. “Pack This!” notepad Campus arrival day. Midterm break. Christmas vacation. Spring semester. Spring break. Summer vacation. That’s a lot of packing, unpacking and repacking. Make sure your student brings everything needed with a “Pack This!” notepad ($7).
		#2. USB Retro Lamp Plug in these funky lights to a laptop’s USB port to brighten your student’s keyboard. The lamp necks are flexible, and the lamp shades come in orange, purple, green and blue ($8).
		#3. Ceramic Noodle Cup In college, there are four food groups: pizza, vending machine snacks, mac and cheese, and Ramen noodles. Let your freshman enjoy hot noodles and broth in style with this ceramic noodle cup ($16). Finish the gift with two dozen packaged Ramen noodles.
		#4. Laptop Lilo Inflatable Laptop Desk Laptops get hot after writing a 30-page paper on Burgess’s use of portmanteau words in A Clockwork Orange. Laptop Lilo withstands 175 degree Fahrenheit temperatures while allowing proper ventilation ($17).
		#5. Popcorn Bowl Movies and popcorn make the ultimate study break. Pair this melamine bowl, lined in a popcorn print, with a few boxes of Orville Redenbacher Light Butter microwave popcorn, a Consumer Reports favorite ($16).
		#6. Electro Man Surge Protector Students bring a showroom floor’s worth of gadgets and small appliances to their dorm. Give an Electro Man Surge Protector to maximize the room’s limited electrical outlets — and protect electronics from voltage spikes ($25).
		#7. Pop Quiz Math Clock This wall clock is ideal for math, computer science, accounting, finance, physics, education, or engineering majors ($27).
		#8. Guitar and Amp Pillow Case Set Add rockstar style to the room with these electric guitar and amplifier pillow cases in standard size ($25).
		#9. 500XL Desktop Earbud Speakers Designer Winnif Pang took iPod earbuds and blew them up 500 times in size. Plug these speakers into a laptop, desktop, or MP3 player to rock the dorm floor ($45).
		#10. Cable Monkey Cable Organizer Sure, the university touts wireless Internet access on campus. But students still contend with lots of wires: power cords, printer cables, speaker cords, digital camera cords, and Ethernet cables (when the wifi drops). Cable Monkey neatly collects the cord jungle into a single strand ($4).
		#11. Tabletop Air Hockey Game Space is at a premium in the dorm room, so this miniature air hockey table (20 inches long) can work on a desk. The first floormate to seven points wins ($30).
		#12. Great Ideas Napkin Sketchbook If the best ideas spring from napkin doodles, why not a whole book of napkins? Help them ace that design project with the Great Ideas Napkin Sketchbook ($6).
		#13. Uncapped Pen and Pencil Holder It’s easy to lose a pen cap, unless it’s this oversized pen cap for holding pens, markers and pencils ($15).
		#14. Eco Cold Drink Cup (Reusable) No matter what the school colors are, green is in on campus. Eliminate disposable cups with this 16-ounce reusable cup, insulated to keep cold drinks cold ($10).

See also: 10 Going-to-College Gifts and 13 Going-to-College Gifts