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These $228 Vintage NFL Hoodies Aren’t for Fair-Weather Fans
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These $228 Vintage NFL Hoodies Aren’t for Fair-Weather Fans
By Lanny Fuller
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We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season

Your basketball shoes might be ready for the court. But are your feet?

By Cool Material
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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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VESSEL Solved One of the Most Annoying Things About Your Golf Bag

The new Player VI Series gives every club its own space and rethinks the golf bag from top to bottom.

By Cool Material
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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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Word. Notebooks Beach Vibes Collection

There's exactly one thing we want to do this time of year: find a beach and live on it. The latest collection of Word. notebooks celebrates these coastal retreats. The Beach Vibes collection contains three different notebooks—Palm, Beach, and Surf—all of which are perfect for organizing your vacation packing list, documenting…

By Mike Newman
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Bellroy Pencil Case

From travel wallets to key covers Bellroy has created quite a few essential pieces of travel gear over the years. The new Bellroy Pencil Case will absolutely find a place on your list of essential gear because of the way it's built. Unlike other pen or pencil cases on the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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