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Review: One Year With the Tiami Mattress
By Adam Szafranski
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My Girlfriend Loves Design, So I Got Her an Arc Alarm Clock from NanuElectrics

Useful can be beautiful. The best gifts are.

By Johnny Motley
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The Coolest Home Gifts for 2025

For the home, for the win.

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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers
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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers

By Christopher Osburn
Drinks
WineHive

Wine isn't our go-to drink. We'll usually reach for a beer, a bit of whiskey or something mixed (sans umbrella) when we're in the mood. There are times, however, when wine is the perfect drink of choice. Plus, who are we kidding, it's still alcohol, right? If you're hosting a nice dinner or…

By Mike Newman
WineHive
Drinks
Floppy Disk Coasters

We cannot, for the life of us, remember the last time we held a floppy disk in our hands. The little black plastic disks were fun to take apart and hang from the rear view in the car, but they haven't been much use since CDs and the Internet. What…

By Cooper Fleishman
Floppy Disk Coasters
Drinks
Tallgrass 8-Bit Pale Ale

Unless you were a childhood alcoholic, you probably weren't knocking back a few while avoiding ghosts in Pac-Man.  If you were of age (or broke into your dad's after work stash), you may have found that introducing a bit of a buzz into your quest for pixelated domination added a bit of…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Woodcut Maps

Locating your hometown or other favorite locale on Google Maps, printing it out and pasting it on your wall is not exactly art. In fact, it's flat-out weird, and if we saw it, we'd assume you were plotting something. Displaying an artistically done map of a random spot is totally different.…

By Mike Newman
Woodcut-Maps
Gear
Quirky Strike Match Case

The invention of the modern lighter might have made matches less prevalent, but it didn't eliminate their usefulness. They're still quite useful for lighting candles, fires and cigars, and they're really good at dealing with people conducting business in the bathroom. The Quirky Strike simplifies the process of storing and…

By Cooper Fleishman
Quirky Strike Match Case