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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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VESSEL Solved One of the Most Annoying Things About Your Golf Bag
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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors
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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors

From the right axe to the perfect sipping whiskey and a proper outdoor speaker, a night under the stars awaits.

By Beau Hayhoe
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A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
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Black Book: 12 Products Our Editors Loved in September 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in September 2026.

By Cool Material
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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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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 Cooper Fleishman
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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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Accessories
Dango’s M1 Maverick Wallets Are Built for Your EDC

Dango M1 Maverick wallets will completely change the way you think about your EDC. CNC-machined aluminum is anodized or Ceratoke-coated before being paired with top grain leather or the DTEX material Dango developed. This made in the USA wallet blends industrial hardware with plush elegance and a range of capacities…

By Cooper Fleishman
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