So you know when it’s really cold out and you’re too poor to turn up the heat in your apartment, so you just put on layer after layer of thermals and lay in bed under a mountain of blankets? What about when you have work to do via your nifty laptop? The rest of you is toasty warm, but your hands, your formerly warm hands…well, they just turn into icicles, now don’t they? But you have to pay the rent, and that’ll be pretty hard to do once your hands become frostbitten and fall off, so what’s the solution?

With USB Heated Gloves (Perpetual Kid, $24.99), you don’t have to worry about losing your most lucrative appendages. These amazing gloves plug right into the USB port of your PC, Mac, Playstation, etc. and instantly warm your frozen hands. You can wear them as mittens or fingerless gloves, so when you’re not typing (or doing anything else that requires you to be very dexterous) you can wear one or both of these gloves as mittens to further insulate that warmth. Made of wool, the gloves themselves are pretty warm, even if not plugged into your computer. The gloves have two heat settings, so if your hands feel like they’re starting to melt, you can tone it down a bit without completely sacrificing your heat.

Each glove has an individual USB plug, so if you have a USB port on each side of your laptop, you’re golden. If not, don’t despair because these gloves have a decent cord length. You can get these gloves in men’s or women’s, although they both only come in one size (one size fits most). The only difference between the men’s and women’s appears to be the colors – men’s only comes in a modest grey, while the women’s is available in blue and pink. To be honest though, I would probably pick the men’s because the women’s are a bit too cutesy for my taste.

4 out of 5 stars.

Specs:

-Easy finger mobility
-Made of wool
-Gloves individually connect to USB ports
-Works with any USB port
-One size fits most
-Includes one pair of USB G-gloves and two USB connecting cables
-5 minutes 10 degree rise