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The latest innovations, performance reviews, and buying guides for everything from athletic apparel and footwear to fitness trackers and sporting accessories.

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Black Book: 10 Products Our Editors Loved in April 2026
By Cool Material
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Why The Field Watch Is The Ultimate Spring Watch

The military classic is a remarkable addition to your EDC this season, and these are a few of our favorites.

By Beau Hayhoe
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a hat trick this week.

By Cool Material
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The Vacay Shave

One of the most wholesome corners of the internet taught me to love shaving again.

By Lanny Fuller
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Midori Brass Pencil

Unlike the word processing programs (let's just lump Excel and Powerpoint in here for argument's sake too) you use to finalize reports, write memos and tally sales, real life doesn't have an undo button. You might be able to ctrl+z your way into that promotion, but it won't unsend an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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QWERTY Premium Leather Wallet

We turn to Think Geek for all our random, geeky needs.  This happens to be quite often and quite a blow to our disposable income (for some reason our wives and girlfriends don't think funny USB plug-ins are a "necessity").  Luckily for any leftover cash we do have, there's this…

By Mike Newman
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Paper Wallets – Designer Series

Solid color wallets are great if you’re working with a tough material like leather. If you’re working with something like the almost indestructible, flexible, resistant-to-damn-near-everything material Tyvek, you can get way more creative. What starts as a regular Paper Wallet is transformed into something artistically excellent by some of the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Cave

There are plenty of things that provide a sense of accomplishment and joy upon completion—building a deck, working under the hood of a car, crafting the perfect playlist—but then there are those things which we just want to get over with and screw the "fruits of our labor." High on this…

By Mike Newman
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Jetsam Reconstructed Wallets

Having fat stacks of greenbacks in your wallet is all well and good, but unless your Donald Trump rich there's only so much bad taste money will fix. Rocking the same beat to shit wallet you got last Christmas that has more preferred saver cards than credit cards and more…

By Cooper Fleishman
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