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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
The Cool Shop The Cool Shop
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The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
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Our Favorite Finds From Bespoke Post’s Fourth of July Sale

Up to 50% off. These are the pieces we'd grab before they're gone.

By Cool Material
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The Iconic REEF Fanning Sandal Just Hit Legal Drinking Age

Four new models join the family of clever, beach-bum approved sandals featuring a bottle opener in the sole

By Beau Hayhoe
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The SOL Origin Survival Kit

If the SOL Origin wasn't so damn awesome, it would sound a lot like a cheesy infomercial product.  It can do everything – slice, dice, fit in the palm of your hand and save your life.  Despite the fact that it sounds like the free gift you’d get if you…

By Mike Newman
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Swedish Firesteel Army Model

In the world of man, names are very important. McClane. Rambo. Matrix. Firesteel. Ok, so maybe Firesteel isn't a character from a famous Willis, Stallone or Schwarzenegger movie, but it should be because it's pretty damn manly. It's also the name of the stick originally developed for the Swedish DoD…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Shovel Master

If you’ve ever been in a Brookstone during the holidays you’ve probably noticed their massaging chairs are always being used.  Sure, some people are checking them out as gifts but others are trying to work out the knots from shoveling the driveway.  If you’ve ever fallen into that second category,…

By Mike Newman
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Ballistic Systems Bulletproof Clipboard

As men, we enjoy the unbreakable. Not so much M. Night's Unbreakable, the one that means impervious, invulnerable, indestructible. In our minds, adding it to a product description is pretty much the same thing as calling something perfect. You buy it once and it lasts forever. Or at least that's…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Swiss Army Axes

If you want to drop a grand, you can get a Swiss Army Knife with 85 different tools. Of those 85 tools though, there are zero axes. This is probably due to the fact that it would take you up to a week to chop firewood with such a tiny axe and…

By Mike Newman
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