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All I want for Christmas is a blanket with sleeves. Luckily, The Slanket (”The Loungin’ Blanket”) is exactly that.

And it’s proof that the best ideas are the simplest ones.

The Slanket creator, Gary Clegg, was hunkered down in his student dorm room one night, wrapped up in his sleeping bag watching TV, when he discovered he couldn’t work the remote without exposing his arms to the bitter cold that is life in a frigid dorm room.

A few snips of the scissors later and an early prototype of The Slanket was born. Several years, a manufacturing deal, and one website later and The Slanket 2.0 is a raging success. Even, dare I say, a hot product (sorry).

It’s (now warm) creator is committed not only to keeping the world warm while it plays Playstation and eat popcorn on the sofa, but to bringing it together: “Across oceans, across cultural boundaries, let’s unify! One Slanket at a time.” is the handwritten message overseas buyers receive with their package of fleecy goodness.