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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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Space Invaders Playing Cards

Long before we were boosting cars and buying hookers in Grand Theft Auto, and way before any Madden version made others question what game we were watching, we were busy entertaining ourselves with pixelated bad guys, baseball diamonds and space debris. We still get a sense of nostalgia with that stuff…

By Mike Newman
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Doane Paper Leather Works

We can't pinpoint precisely when it happened, but our memory just isn't what it used to be. If Facebook didn't keep track of history and Foursquare didn't keep track of where we were, we'd have no idea what happened last week - let alone years ago. We've discovered that there's…

By Cooper Fleishman
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CB500X Portable Charcoal Grill

For a devoted tailgater, spending the day in a parking lot outside the stadium is a given. Kickoff is 8 at night? You'll be there before noon. Put it this way, an experienced tailgater will be there long enough to smoke some ribs, and with the CB500X Portable Charcoal Grill, you could. The stylish…

By Mike Newman
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This is Spinal Tape

The latest in a long line of "why didn't I think of that" products is something so simple and ingenious it's amazing it didn't already exist - custom packing tape. In the case of this particular iteration, This Is Spinal Tape. 25 meters of vertebrae covered, standard width packing tape…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Pit Boss BBQ Toolbelt

When you first moved into a place with a yard or a balcony, what's the first thing you bought? If you're anything like us, it was a grill. When hunger strikes, it's your duty to grill up various meats and vegetables in order to feed the masses (or yourself). As…

By Cooper Fleishman
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