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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
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Bender Books

A great philosopher once said, "There is a lot of wisdom in a bottle of whiskey." (It was either Confucius or Jimmy Buffett, we can't remember which one.) There's truth to that adage. We've shared more knowledge after some Johnny Walker than we have after finishing any book (albeit slurred knowledge). If you want…

By Mike Newman
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Gig Posters 2012 Wall Calendar

Thanks to cell phones, wall calendars have gone the way of clocks, disposable cameras and hand writing things. You don't really need a calendar, but you don't need a watch either and every one of you knows how much we love those. It isn't really a matter of convenience anyways, it…

By Cooper Fleishman
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3 Man Chess

Chess has always been a game we could get behind. It's the type of sophisticated, sporting endeavor that exudes wood paneling, the smell of cigars and the taste of a few fingers of quality scotch. It's a thinking man's game and we like to consider ourselves thinking men. The only…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Cdock

Most iPhone 4/4s docking stations out there would seem pretty out of place on the set of All in the Family, The Brady Bunch or Debbie Does Dallas. Flowers and tacky wallpaper don't really mesh with jet-black technology stamped with a chrome "Bose" logo. For some retro chic there's The Cdock. Reminiscent of…

By Mike Newman
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Manly Man Natural Soap

Our whole idea of soap making got turned on its head after we saw Fight Club. Maybe the craft isn't just for the Martha Stewart's of the world, maybe a dude who isn't afraid of a little lye burn can churn out some bars we would want. Further reiterating our…

By Mike Newman
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