The Best Mother's Day Gifts for the Best Mom Ever

Imagine a club in Vegas. A go-go dancer. Strobe lights. It's a spectacle of stop motion animation, the fluidity of movement altered by the way the flashes of light play with your eyes. Now scale that scene way down and bring it to your living room.

And replace the go-go dancer with a feather or a flower clipped to an electromagnet. You know, Momify it. Tweak the strobes too. Speed them up so fast that you can't even tell they're blinking, and sync them with the high-speed vibrations of the clipped object. Then tell Mom to sit back and watch the Slow Dance.

Slow Dance is an optical illusion and a piece of art. Creator Jeff Lieberman builds the framed sculptures to hold real items, such as feather, flowers, leaves, and small branches, and make them appear to move in slow motion.

I know Dad's usually the one who's all about the cheese factor, but this Partyclette ToGo set is for the edible kind. Boska Holland's twist on the Raclette method shrinks the melting source from a roaring campfire to a set of 3 tea lights that sit underneath a nonstick Barbeclette pan to heat it. Once the cheese is bubbly, lift the pan off its oak frame and use the included spatula to slide it off onto anything from nachos to burgers to Swiss-Canadian poutine.

What is this whiskcraft I see before me? You mean worming my tongue between the wire loops and getting chocolate cake batter all over my face isn't the best way to clean off the whisk when my mama is baking? Nah.

The Whisk Wiper fits over the spherical end of any standard whisk, its star-shaped slots sliding between the utensil's metal loops, and stopping at the base of the handle. While whisking the Wiper stays put and serves as both a ledge for stationing the whisk against the edge of the bowl so it won't fall in and get quick-batter-sanded to the bottom, and as a batter catcher if Mom decides to invert the whisk and set it on end on the countertop.

Butter Bell Crocks store butter fresh without refrigeration, so Mom (and, by proxy, you) will always have smooth and spreadable churned moo juice set right on the countertop.

A dude, L. Tremain, designed these Original Butter Bell Crocks after the French butter crocks, which somehow use water and bone china to keep butter fresh and at the perfect spreading consistency for up to 30 days. No fridge, no spoilage, no odors, and no destroying the toast with hard hunks of butter.

The Qoobo robotic pillow (with a tail!) is a pet substitute and therapeutic source of comfort for elderly moms, moms with anxiety, or moms who can't own a furry pet due to allergies or their living situation. The furry, lap-sized bot is very well behaved, it doesn't shed, and she'll never have to take it out at 10 at night, in the cold, and the rain, to let it pee and poo.

I bet I could still kill a plant inside an Aquaphoric Self-Watering Planter. A Fiber Soil planting medium and easy-to-read water gauge are no match for my black thumb (i.e., forgetfulness, laziness, and general ignorance.)

My mama would probably dig an Aquaphoric planter though. Especially the purply one they call "Wine Matte."

The Aquaphoric planters shown here are wee-sized for Mom's desktop, countertops, and side tables. They measure 4.75" tall, and 5.25" wide at the top, 4" wide at the bottom.

They're real, and they're mag-nificent! These preserved roses start out as actual fresh flower blooms, and somehow, through the powers of technology and alchemy, their makers are able to treat them with a biological retardant of some sort that will keep them looking beauteous and unwithered for 1 to 3 years.

Choose from a handful of colors, and if you can't find your mom's favorite, go with the always-crowd-pleasing rainbow to show her what a unicorn in this world she is.