For years, I've coveted the boutique Brooklyn design company Haptic Lab's exquisitely detailed "soft-map" city quilts - monochromatic tapestries stitched to depict the veins of metropolises like New York, Los Angeles and London. But I have a cat who claws, so I've always thought twice about getting one. Now, the firm has a new product that's just as whimsical and wonderful: a bamboo-and-nylon kite, handmade by artisans in Bali, in the shape of a double-masted sailing ship. On weekend runs around Brooklyn's Prospect Park, I often see dads and their kids flying kites together in the Long Meadow. My first daughter is due soon, and in a few years I can imagine the two of us venturing out on the weekend to join them, armed with one of these. $40; hapticlab.com.