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Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History
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Menswear Staples You Didn’t Know Had Golf History
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game 12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game
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12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game

From Tiger Woods’ surprisingly beatable low round to the golf course sitting 15,000+ feet above sea level.

By Cool Material
Gear
Nocs Binoculars

Whether you're watching birds, studying insects, scoping out the planes flying over or just creeping on the neighbors, everyone reading this needs a great pair of binoculars because you never know when you're going to need to zoom in on some action. For all those situations, and the ones you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Sports
Nissan ProPilot Self-Driving Golf Ball

Nissan's new Skyline is equipped with various driving assistants, route-driving, high-precision map data and the ability to overtake, branch and take exits--a technology they called ProPilot 2.0. In order to show off what the technology is capable of, Nissan used it as the starting point to build... The ProPilot Golf…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Rama Works Built near Bomb-Proof Canisters for Your Film

Ever since we first set eyes on one of their products, we knew each one of the items in Rama Works diverse portfolio of wares well-built, sleek and unconventional. From the M60-A keyboard to the RW01 car, to PC cases and wallets, everything they make has a unique sense of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
Flateye Unround Flashlight

We've spent a lot of years figuring out what, exactly, we needed from a flashlight. From the world's brightest flashlights, to the best self-defense flashlights, to the best tactical flashlights, there are a lot of options if you want high-quality illumination in your everyday carry. The one thing most flashlights…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Globe-Trotter AERO Luggage

If you travel and you think luggage can't be both tough and protective, as well as flexible, you haven't seen it made from high-strength and elastic carbon composite, the same kind of material used for satellites, rockets, and hypercars. Globe-Trotter has made its AERO line from this very stuff, developed…

By Amos Kwon
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