It’s finally here! Grilled meat season is upon us ladies and gentlemen. Manning (or womanning) the grill takes a few things: meat (some encased), cold beer, fire, an appetite and tools. Bare minimum, you’ll find yourself using a spatula and... continue...
Modular product solutions are great. You get to take a bunch of things designed to work together and play around with them until you have a finished product that works and looks exactly like you want it to. Mission Workshop’s Arkiv Field Pack seems... continue...
With Memorial Day right around the corner, we figured it would be a fine time to put our love affair with the classic hot dog on display. Whether we’re grabbing two at the ballpark or firing up the grill on the first nice day of the year, few things... continue...
There’s no shortage of ways to decorate the walls of your home/office/dorm/bedroom/insert name of other room worth decorating here. You can buy a bunch of artwork from 20×200, Fab or any one of the other art sites on the net. You can paint... continue...
If we had to guess Rocco Malatesta’s greatest passions in life, we’d go with: Smart design, macho cinema and human hands. We’re all on board for two of those three, but the hand thing is a little disconcerting and might be a tad... continue...
Condiments aren’t supposed to have rabid fan bases. Such things are reserved for boy bands and European soccer teams. This is not the case when it comes to rooster sauce. Sriracha has excitingly attacked the tastebuds of millions since it traveled... continue...
Few foods allow for such creativity as the humble sandwich. By definition, it’s just bread and . . . stuff. PB & J on white? That’s a sandwich. A mountain of pastrami and a bit of slaw between rye? Also a sandwich. Wonder bread with... continue...
We’re at the point in our adult lives where we’re not the ones getting yelled about rings on the table–we’re the ones doing the yelling. We finally saved up enough scratch and mental justification for that new Restoration Hardware... continue...
You know those sweet little mats you can buy for your dashboard that hold your phone in place while you’re whipping around corners at 50mph? These Uguard.me Resin iPhone Cases are the case version of that technology for, you guessed it, the iPhone... continue...
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 gear everyone wore, ate or drank... continue...
In case you haven’t seen the video of Holographic Tupac yet, Coachella 2012 is kind of a big deal. We can’t all make it out to the middle of nowhere and sleep in a tent three days, but thankfully we have the technology to share some of our... continue...
The Dude, Spicoli, everyone in Half Baked—these are characters the entire world knows are stoners. In honor of 4/20, however, we decided to delve a little deeper. What about the characters that weren’t so forthcoming about their habits?... continue...
Note: The 2012 Chevy Volt offers an EPA-estimated 35 miles on a full charge based on 94 MPGe [electric] and an additional 340 miles with a full tank based on 35 city, 40 MPG highway [gas]. Actual range varies with conditions. This post is sponsored... continue...
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 name should sound familiar (we’ve mentioned... continue...
There aren’t enough adjectives for ‘hate’ in the English language to adequately describe how much we hate losing or breaking sunglasses. Countless pairs of Oakleys, Randolph Engineering and Ray-Bans have gone the way of the dodo because... continue...