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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
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BMW Designworks x The North Face Camper Concept

BMW Designworks has been responsible for quite a few interesting collaborations since BMW acquired them in 1995. They worked with U.S. Paralympic team to make a carbon fiber racing wheelchair. They also made the Level 10 M gaming mouse with Thermaltake. And now The North Face gets added to their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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JAXJOX Smart Kettlebell

The space obstacle prevents many of us from carving out room in our humble abodes to create a home gym. Individual kettlebells are great for symmetric muscle building and toning, but cost and rack space are big hurdles to overcome. But JAXJOX KettlebellConnect has a brilliant answer. It's a single…

By Amos Kwon
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Accessories
Storage Soles Let You Store Small Items in Your Shoes

Over the years, we've seen more than a few great stash jars. Storage Soles take the idea of the portable stash container and, as the name implies, add the storage to the soles of your shoes. The concept is simple enough, polyurethane foam insoles for shoe sizes 8-12 with a hidden…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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 Cooper Fleishman
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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 Cooper Fleishman
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