http://coolmaterial.com Fri, 25 May 2012 18:04:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://coolmaterial.com/home/custom-xbox-360-controller-with-bullet-buttons/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/custom-xbox-360-controller-with-bullet-buttons/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 14:59:11 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=55395
You can add bullets to anything and it will immediately be cooler. They're like camo, or caffeine, or tattoos, or explosions or boobies. There can never be enough of any of those things. But if [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/custom-xbox-360-controller-with-bullet-buttons/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/ultraviolet-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/ultraviolet-playing-cards/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:15 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=55044
There are a lot of awesome products that end up on Kickstarter. The funding platform/payment system/social support vehicle has drained our bank accounts in the best way possible, but it's most effective for a few [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/ultraviolet-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/the-classic-wooden-roller-coaster/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/the-classic-wooden-roller-coaster/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 16:45:39 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=54453
We have one rule when it comes to roller coasters: Don't go double on the funnel cake before getting on. Other than that, we're all in. Whether it's the latest and greatest that achieves insanely [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/the-classic-wooden-roller-coaster/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/hipster-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/hipster-playing-cards/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:00:49 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=54026
If you choose to conceal your tells during a game of poker with a pair of neon plastic Wayfarers, these are probably the cards you should be playing with. This deck of Hipster Playing Cards showcase all the classic [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/hipster-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/blue-blood-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/blue-blood-playing-cards/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:05:16 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=53561
Everyone needs at least one quality deck of playing cards. Once you start drinking things that don't come in Vortex bottles when you play poker you need to step up your card preferences too. The [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/blue-blood-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/scrabble-typography-edition/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/scrabble-typography-edition/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:10:55 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=52125
There was a time before iPhones when games of "Words With Friends" weren't played over daylong stretches where you guessed until you got a word that existed thus proving your superior intelligence. No, it was Scrabble, [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/scrabble-typography-edition/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/hardware-chess-set/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/hardware-chess-set/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:45:21 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=51841
If you've ever been hesitant to pick up the game of chess because it's stereotypically nerdy, first off, go play a few rounds with the guys in Washington Square Park and get back to us, [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/hardware-chess-set/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/one-widow-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/one-widow-playing-cards/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:10:03 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=51019
At first glance, a deck of cards that costs more than two Manhattans in NYC sounds insane, especially when you consider your drunk friends will probably spill beer all over them the next time you [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/one-widow-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/hot-wheels-initro-speeders/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/hot-wheels-initro-speeders/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:45:17 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=50759
It doesn't matter if you're three, thirteen or thirty, men will never grow out of Hot Wheels cars. Hot Wheels cars will always be fun to play with even if you happen to be too [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/hot-wheels-initro-speeders/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/bar-games-coasters/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/bar-games-coasters/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:56 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=51741
If you didn’t want social interaction when you were out at the bar, you’d drink alone at home. Talking about sports, or the weather or traffic over a cold one is just as much of [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/bar-games-coasters/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/vintage-plaid-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/vintage-plaid-playing-cards/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:40:11 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=50478
Game night is no joking matter. When your friends arrive ready to hand over their cash you don’t want to bust out just any box of cards. You want premium stock (these are also cambric [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/vintage-plaid-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/tech/the-xappr-gun/ http://coolmaterial.com/tech/the-xappr-gun/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:50:18 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=50162
You can lie all you want to justify the reasons you "needed" your iPhone 4s or the latest Android device. You can tell yourself it will help out at the office or it will streamline your [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/tech/the-xappr-gun/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/fultons-clip-joint-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/fultons-clip-joint-playing-cards/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:10:22 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=48832
There was a time not all that long ago when men wore hats, women wore stockings in public, the appletini didn't exist and you could actually smoke inside. Finding a place like that now is [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/fultons-clip-joint-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/bicycle-black-tiger-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/bicycle-black-tiger-playing-cards/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:10:42 +0000 Mike Newman http://coolmaterial.com/?p=48633
Normally we wouldn't shell out more than a couple of bucks on a deck of cards. Ours are usually the $2 packs that will quickly be ruined by spilled beer and nacho cheese stains on poker [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/bicycle-black-tiger-playing-cards/feed/ 0 http://coolmaterial.com/home/infinity-playing-cards/ http://coolmaterial.com/home/infinity-playing-cards/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:15:43 +0000 Ben Dahl http://coolmaterial.com/?p=47757
There's something magical about a boat full of aces over eights. Something extraordinary about a hand full of sequentially numbered red or black cards. Whether your game is hold em or stud or draw, or [...]

Visit Cool Material for the full post. ]]> http://coolmaterial.com/home/infinity-playing-cards/feed/ 0