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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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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 Cooper Fleishman
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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 Cooper Fleishman
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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 Cooper Fleishman
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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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