When the battery life indicator on our phone or tablet turns red, we get pissed. Most of the time we’re near an outlet, and our frustration is really over a minor inconvenience. We charge a (continue reading…)
We’ve got a serious man-crush on Pop Chart Lab. We don’t know why we just assumed a company was a dude, but we did, and now we feel a little weird. Their prints are always (continue reading…)
Sometimes we wish we lived in a hexagonal house just so we had more walls to put up prints from The Impossible Cool collection Sonic Editions offers. If you’ve been a loyal Cool Material reader, the (continue reading…)
We know we took some shots at Instagram in this previous post, but to quote the well-known philosopher, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, “We kid, we kid.” The truth (continue reading…)
The emotion we experience most from video games is deep-seated frustration. This usually manifests itself in us smashing a controller against the wall or going out for a drink. An emotion we don’t always associate with gaming (continue reading…)
How many times has this happened to you? You’re out back enjoying a few beers with your friends when you get the urge to fire up the grill for a couple of burgers. You leave the (continue reading…)
There are approximately one million different ways to amplify the sound coming out of your iPhone to a party-appropriate decibel. Between all the docks, horns, stereo connectors, jacks, brands and prices you could literally spend (continue reading…)
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 (continue reading…)
Let’s be honest, the speakers on our portable gadgets are garbage. Listening to something on your iPhone without additional amplification sounds like the muffled beats escaping from the headphones of some dude sitting next to you on (continue reading…)
When you want inexpensive furniture you can put together without the hassle of “words” along with a side of meatballs, there’s only one place to go. Soon, while checking the specs on some IKEA items with your paper tape measure, (continue reading…)
When it comes to grilling, we try to be purists. We’re guilty of the occasional gas cook out of sheer convenience, but we always feel bad about it when we take the first bite out (continue reading…)
Everyone knows that the best place to look for cool, vintage style lighting—when you’re not on a Restoration Hardware budget—is Etsy. These Menlo Park Lamps from The Dapper Llama are the newest addition to our (continue reading…)
Owning more than a couple of axes is just weird. A couple and you’re fine, but like a dozen, and you can forget about anyone assuming you’re not a serial murderer. This presents a problem (continue reading…)
You don’t have to be a sneakerhead to appreciate Nike Air Force 1s. Originally introduced in 1982, AF1s were the first kicks to use the Nike Air technology, and throughout their 30 year stint as (continue reading…)
You probably know TNT as the network for Law & Order and occasional viewings of The Shawshank Redemption and Die Hard 2, but over in Belgium, they’ve been without Jerry Orbach’s unimpressed disposition and the (continue reading…)