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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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The Orbiter Fidget Toy

If you’re anything like us, fidgeting is part of your creative process. Simply sitting still and trying to think up ideas never works. Instead of tapping your feet and snapping your fingers, pick up the Orbiter. The Orbiter is a titanium toy that leverages powerful Neodymium magnets to allow you…

By Mike Newman
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Repelica Bags are Built for Busy, Creative Lives

Today's world demands that you hustle. When it comes to transporting and protecting your gear while you do so, you need a bag designed for busy, creative lives. Repelica has built exactly what you're looking for. The three initial bags—the Square Pack, the Rucksack, and the Daypack—are all built from…

By Mike Newman
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The World’s Smallest Tactical Pocket Knife

Billed by Bomber & Company as "the world's smallest tactical pocket knife," the B-2 Nano Blade is a mini tactical knife inspired by the B-2 Stealth Bomber. With a fully opened length of 80mm and a closed length of 48mm, it definitely lives up to its "discrete concealability" premise and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Wax & Jackson Record Bags

Most record bags make us think of DJs from the club scene in the early aughts. Any time we see one of those jet black bags with a record label's name splashed across the front, we expect the guy carrying it to whip out 12" copies of the Percolator, Zombie…

By Mike Newman
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The Many Uses of Hudsalve, the Swedish Military’s Answer to a Million Problems

In the mid-1900s, soldiers in the Swedish military were in need of something to help soothe and heal blisters on their feet along with various nicks and cuts. In response, the military contracted their pharmacy to come up with a product to meet the soldiers' needs. The pharmacy created Hudsalve ("Skin Ointment"), an anhydrous…

By Mike Newman
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