Toasty toes, tiny heater

Every home has that one spot the thermostat doesn’t care about. The desk by the window. The nightstand side of the bed. The patch of floor under your feet, which stays stubbornly October even when the rest of the room has moved on. (It’s late October, so you’ve probably noticed.)

Cranking the whole house up to fix a cold ankle is a lot of effort. The Sharper Image RADIUS 5H goes at it differently, with 750 watts of heat aimed at small spaces like your desktop, your nightstand, or down by your feet. It uses half the energy of large heaters, so your cold ankles don’t get to run the electric bill.

You get two heat settings (375W and 750W) plus a fan-only mode for when you just want some air moving. Tip-over protection and a 2-stage auto-shutoff are built in, so you can settle in and stop worrying about it.

It’s roughly 7 by 7 by 6 inches and weighs 2.44 pounds, with a 6-foot cord, so moving it from desk to bedside takes about five seconds. And since this is a 2-pack, the office and the bedroom each get their own. A 1-year warranty comes along too.