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The latest innovations, performance reviews, and buying guides for everything from athletic apparel and footwear to fitness trackers and sporting accessories.

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Win $1,000 Worth of Gear From Iron & Resin
By John A. Paradiso
The Best Products of the Week: Buck Mason x J. Press, Apple M4 Mac Mini, and More
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The Best Products of the Week: Buck Mason x J. Press, Apple M4 Mac Mini, and More

Including Ratio's smallest, most efficient coffee brewer.

By John A. Paradiso
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Black Book: 12 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2024

These are the best things we tested this month—from a tandem shower system to WhistlePig's annual Boss Hog whiskey.

By John A. Paradiso
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The Best EDC Gifts for 2024

Never leave the house empty-handed. These are the best EDC gifts for the 2024 holiday season.

By John A. Paradiso
Fashion
Save up to 50% off on Almost 10,000 Items at Nordstrom

It's a fair bet that you can hit up the Nordstrom online shop any day of the week and find at least one thing you want in the Sale section. But they just kicked off their Half-Yearly Sale with up to 50% on almost 10,000 items, so it's safe to…

By Ben Dahl
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Darter Is a Micro Pen with a Sewing Kit Inside

We've covered a lot of Kickstarter pens over the years. So many, in fact, that we've put together separate features on Kickstarter pens and nice pens that will last forever that both showcase excellent writing implements that got their start through crowdfunding. Most of the latest and greatest pen projects…

By Ben Dahl
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Spyderco Genzow HatchetHawk

Martin Genzow is a German outdoor enthusiast and historian that has a thing for high-quality bladed weapons. He teamed up with our friends at Spyderco, one of the best knife makers out there, to create the Genzow HatchetHawk you see here. In order to create the HatchetHawk that bears his…

By Ben Dahl
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Maxwell Infinitum Acoustic Guitar

You don’t exactly see significant and tasteful revolutions in musical instrument design and construction trying to upend centuries of tradition, and that especially applies to the venerable acoustic guitar. Well, New Zealand’s Maxwell Custom Guitars created the visually arresting and acoustically radical Infinitum guitar. It’s pretty much like no guitar…

By Amos Kwon
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The ManualPen Is Made From a Single Piece of Metal

It's rare that a pen design is truly new. Most pens we come across are some alteration of someone else's design. That's why the ManualPen is so intriguing. It's a design we've never seen before. The body is machined from a solid piece of metal, meaning there are no mechanical…

By Mike Newman
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