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The Best Bags, Suitcases, and Duffels for Holiday Travel
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The Best Bags, Suitcases, and Duffels for Holiday Travel
By John A. Paradiso
The Best Products of the Week: The James Brand × Timex Automatic GMT, Leica’s New Projector, and More
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The Best Products of the Week: The James Brand × Timex Automatic GMT, Leica’s New Projector, and More

Including a Red Wing x Steve McQueen boot collaboration.

By John A. Paradiso
The Best Products of the Week: Bertone Runabout, Hamilton PSR 74, and More
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The Best Products of the Week: Bertone Runabout, Hamilton PSR 74, and More

Including Old Grand-Dad 16-Year bourbon.

By John A. Paradiso
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Win $1,000 Worth of Gear From Iron & Resin

Iron & Resin is giving away $1,000 worth of menswear and gear, including their newly launched Overland Weekender Bag.

By John A. Paradiso
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Ziv’s Portable Smoker Works With Any Heat Source

After over two decades importing and smoking fish, two brothers developed a portable home smoker that works with any source and created results as good as any professional merchandise they tested. Ziv's Portable Smoker works with any heat source from a gas stove or an open flame to a BBQ…

By Ben Dahl
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Book Darts Are Better Bookmarks

It seems like every time we actually try to make good on our resolution to spend more time reading books than things on the Internet we always get pulled away. Picking up where you left off in whatever great American novel you're currently reading doesn't have to involve hunting across…

By Ben Dahl
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Third Thumb Prosthetic

Artificial human augmentation has to start somewhere, so the thumb must be as good a place as any. The Third Thumb comes from the mind of Dani Clode, who designed it to be one of the first prosthesics for non-amputees. Kind of how tons of video games feature ways to…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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MummyPod Is a Sleeping Bag Built for Hammocks

If you haven't yet skipped pitching the tent by the fire in favor of counting sheep in a hammock you're missing out. Outdoor Vitals is currently running a Kickstarter project to raise funds for their innovative new sleeping bag and hammock system called MummyPod. MummyPod is a new sleeping bag setup that…

By Ben Dahl
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The Off-Road Campers We’d Buy if Money Were No Object

Every time we have the “What if you could do anything you wanted?” conversation, it always ends with us saying we’d love to do more traveling. And when we say “traveling,” you know we’re not the “book a cruise and hang out in port all week” kind of people. We’re…

By Maxwell Barna
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