Not too long before she died, my mom bought my dad the absolute perfect gift. He was incredibly hard to shop for and it got old buying him the same stuff all the time.

It was a handheld radio that had a dial to adjust the delay of the broadcast so you could synch it with TV, which is almost always behind the radio broadcast. He loved it and I was envious of her getting him such a great gift. I wish I had thought of it.