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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
Food
ManCan 128 Personal Keg System

Trust us when we tell you that we love being able to remove delicious, larger quantities of beer from our favorite microbreweries than what's available in cans or bottles, but growlers have problems of their own. They're not pressurized. Most of them are made of glass. They only hold four…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Rumpl Down Puffy Outdoor Blanket

Down comforters and down jackets are great ways to stay warm at home or on the go when the weather isn't cooperating because of the durable construction and protection you get from down. The Rumpl Down Puffy Outdoor Blanket is the only thing you want when you need a blanket…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ideal Conceal Smartphone Gun

Stretch your arms while yawning, bend over when your shoe comes untied, or catch your shirt on something jutting out from the wall and all of a sudden that concealed weapon isn't so, well, concealed. The Ideal Conceal Pistol wants to keep your gun under wraps—by making it look like…

By Mike Newman
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Discommon Aluminum Straight Razor

There are those who take a cheap razor to their face, swipe quickly, and finish up with bits of toilet paper attached to nicks across their mug. Then there are those who take their time and view shaving as a meditative practice. For the latter group (with cash to spare), there's…

By Mike Newman
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Features
The History of the Space Pen

You know that age-old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention?” Well, it’s 100 percent true. Every single successful invention from the beginning of time came as an answer to some kind of question or problem. The wheel, paper, highway systems—all these things were invented by men and women who…

By Maxwell Barna
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