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If you’re only familiar with Cool Material the blog, we really think you should take look at Cool Material the shop, an outpost for some of our favorite items we happen to carry and sell ourselves. Now’s the perfect time, too, because you can clear a good portion of your…
Pour yourself a big cup of coffee, grab that shopping list, and let's get going. It's holiday season. This year, we're helping you knock it all out early with this collection of gift guides. Each of the following guides features some of our favorite gear from the past year or…
You have two options when it comes to filming yourself with your smartphone. You either get a patient friend to play along and man the phone, or you prop the phone up and do your best not to venture out of view. Neither is all that great. Pivo is a…
First we wanted smaller phones. Then we wanted bigger phones. We wanted laptops. Then we turned to tablets—which we added keyboards to. The point is, we don't know what we want, but we do know, at some point, we start missing the things we once had. That's we kinda love…
It was only a matter of time before cassette tapes followed in the footsteps of vinyl records and resurfaced in popular culture. Proof that we're there is the latest release from Crosley, the CT100A portable cassette player. Perfect for your old mix tapes, the CT100A is modeled after tinier tape…
Don't want to shell out the cash for Netflix? Feel morally against borrowing your parents' Prime password? Fear not, you can still stream some movies, and they won't cost you a penny. YouTube recently announced that it would start streaming big-budget flicks for free. Okay, so you do need to…
Wes Anderson creates movies that exist in a world all their own. Now those worlds have an alphabet. The Wes Anderson Alphabet poster from artist Abbie Paulhus is a whimsical print for your wall that displays the alphabet through characters, items, and moments pulled from Anderson's iconic films. "R" is…
Bachelor party somewhere perfectly remote? Ditch the party bus that won't make it a foot off paved terrain and get yourself the INKAS Superior, a multipurpose vehicle built to transport personnel in any and all conditions. Clearly designed more for law enforcement and military than weekends with the boys, the…
With all the hardships Tyrion Lannister has faced, we're shocked he hasn't moved on to something harder than wine. Perhaps he just needed the right tipple. Here it is. Game of Thrones partnered with a collection of Scottish distilleries to offer eight different single malts perfect for warming you up this…
Santa won't have much of an appetite for milk and cookies this year, as he'll probably spend his sleigh ride chowing down on your presents. That's not because St. Nick got you 10 pounds of bacon—as fantastic as that sounds; it's because he can now clad your gifts in sausage-scented…
The sidecar, a motorcycle feature that seems like a relic from the past, is finally getting pulled into the future. The Ural All-Electric Prototype motorcycle boasts the retro add-on, allowing a passenger to ride in comfort without their arms wrapped around your body like they were a backpack. The addition…
Rob Levitt is a butcher from Chicago who runs a shop called The Butcher & Larder. Unsurprisingly, he knows a thing or two about cooking cuts of meat. He shared a nifty little trick with The Takeout that can help you achieve perfection every time you slap a raw steak down…
Thanksgiving is coming early this year. This Sunday, November 18, find your way to Lexington, Kentucky, for "Pappy Thanksgiving," a bonkers event at the Chevy Chase Inn—the city's oldest bar—where they'll pour different Pappy expressions at cost. Yes, at cost. That means a 1.5-ounce pour of Old Rip Van Winkle…
Keurig wants to bring the simplicity it brought to preparing your morning beverages to preparing your after-work ones. The Drinkworks Drinkmaker is a new device from the brand that accepts pods designed to make cocktails, beers, and ciders. Pop in a pod for a margarita, mojito, old fashioned, White Russian,…
Gone are the days when we'd giddily look forward to each December morning so we could pop open the door of our advent calendar to reveal a piece of chocolate or small toy. Alas, with the O Holy Cow! Advent Calendar, that A.M. anticipation is not lost completely. This advent…
