2021 Holiday Wearable Tech Gift Guide: Under $50

By Chelsea Klukas, Founder — Lumen Couture

Stuff your stockings and support small businesses with our guide for gifts that are under $50USD!

Holiday shopping can be stressful, especially for friends and family who are tough to impress and seem to already have one of everything. Don't stress: our holiday gift guides will help you shop for everyone on your list!

As a bonus, shopping from Lumen Couture supports small, independent business.

LED Matrix Face Mask

$40 – $50 USD

LED Matrix Mask Our most popular product to date, our LED matrix mask has been featured in international media including The Verge, Yahoo finance! and the official NBA instagram. In 2020 it won multiple awards including one of the most innovative products of the year, and earned a 9.5/10 rating on GadgetFlow.

Due to it's immense popularity: copycats exist, but there's nothing like the original and supporting independent designer and innovators. And like it or not: it seems that masks are sticking around for a while longer, so might as well find some fun and delight in the meantime.

Glowing Light Mask

Fiber Optic Mask Our second mask on this list, our Fiber Optic mask doesn't afford as much customization as the Matrix mask, but is still an innovative and fun way to stand out from the crowd. The mask provides glow and blinking effects in a variety of colors, powered by a small button for easy on-the-go controls.

Includes a rechargeable battery for instant fun.

About the Author: Chelsea Klukas is an award-winning interdisciplinary technology artist and design leader. She has founded two companies exploring the intersection of fashion and technology (Lumen Couture and MakeFashion) and was recently granted her Doctorate of Fine Arts (h.c.) in 2019. Her Lumen Couture projector hat, a hat that includes real-time projection mapping and visual inputs to display video on a dress, has gained international attention as the first of its kind. She is an advocate for diversity and women in tech.

Lumen Couture is fashion that illuminates for unexpected elegance and drama. The designs are informed by the international fashiontech shows hosted by MakeFashion, an organization that introduces youth to STEM through hands-on fashion technology workshops.