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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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Pocket Dept Notebooks

Along with playing Words with Friends (this is still cool, right?), there are a lot of things your iPhone/Droid/Blackberry is good for. One thing it's not good for is taking notes. We know it's easy to do because you probably already have your phone out—and it's certainly capable of taking…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Porsche Design Ice Cube Tray

Unless you are drinking some whiskey with some large cube of hand-carved ice it's okay to get a bit whimsical in the drink cooling process. We've moved beyond the standard tray that used to come with the purchase of a refrigerator and have invested in Space Invader sets and a few…

By Mike Newman
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AC/DC The Wine

It's an unfortunate fact of life that time keeps moving forward and you're going to get older. Sucks. Still, we say embrace it and man up. You'll reach a point where funneling a beer and ripping shots isn't the gameplan for a Wednesday night. Sure we used to rock out to AC/DC, and we…

By Mike Newman
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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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Anthropologie Eiko Cabinet

We can't remember exactly when it happened (probably somewhere around the time jobs started getting measured in tens of thousands of dollars instead of per hour), but we began to pay more attention to some of life's finer things: a quality scotch or a nice vino, shoes designed specifically for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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