cool gifts college students

Lighten anyone s life with a scented, cool vanilla mint candle ($4) that s packed in a handy travel tin.

With a portable projector ($85) and a wall mounted projection screen ($45), students who are less interested in a owning TV can see the shows and movies that they usually watch on their laptops projected on a big screen.

These super cute, trendy plants survive on air do not plant them in soil and can be perched anywhere to decorate a dorm room.

SOLO Eyewear makes its trendy sunglasses ($95) out of recycled bamboo, and each pair you purchase provides eye care for poor people, including prescription glasses and eye saving surgeries. The company has restored vision to 6,540 people around the world.

Stitch Fix, which offers gifts cards, will send a box of five handpicked, trendy clothing items that a personal stylist will select after the gift recipient fills out her style profile. You keep what you like and send the rest back in a prepaid envelope ($150 $180).

With the SodaStream starter kit you can make your own soda at home, eliminating the need for soda cans ($59).

Ditch the boring ones. How about an elephant of Namibia yoga mat, a blue flame mat or coral blossom mat? All $58. Or try a personalized yoga mat decorated with three large photos that you upload when ordering (also $58).