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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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Swiss-Tech Micro-Max XI 19-in-1 Tool

If you dumped the average guy’s toolbox into a Tumi messenger bag or a Diesel backpack and slapped it on someone they’d tip over like Snooki at 3am.  Unless you plan on using tools around your own house only, you’re going to need a more convenient means to transport them.  Whether…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Quentin vs Coen Prints

What do filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers have in common?  Answer:  Awesomeness (and Steve Buscemi).  While we’ve watched Reservoir Dogs and Fargo more times than we can remember, pasting an image of Mr. Blonde removing an ear or a bloody snow covered field on our wall never struck…

By Mike Newman
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Sewer and Manhole Cover Pillows

Sewer and manhole covers get a bad rap. Yeah, they're generally gross and disgusting, but they also serve as a barrier between all the shit below (literally) and you. It should go without saying, but also Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. While traveling, one ingenious couple photographed manhole covers from all…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Adjustable Nonstick Burger Press

Chances are you’ve already fired up the grill once for the season. Even if it isn’t warm yet where you live, it’s the time of year where guys get some sort of pre-programmed urge to ingest the smell of charcoal and flame-licked meat (that sounded oddly sexual). Along with steak the…

By Mike Newman
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Ballpoint Pen Art by Juan Francisco Casas

When was the last time you took a few minutes to actually write something down? We're not talking about sending an email, updating your Tumblr, tweeting, twatting or Facebooking, we're talking about actually putting a pen to paper and writing something down. If you're anything like us, it was probably…

By Cooper Fleishman
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