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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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By Christopher Osburn
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United Steaks of America

Is there a more American food than steak?  Outside of a Big Mac extra value meal, we can’t think of one.  The United Steaks of America is a series of 5-layer screen-prints all on freezer paper and all steak rendered images of a US state.  Every print makes a nice…

By Mike Newman
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Custom Lighter Branding Iron

There's a lot of cool things you can do with a lighter. You can light a cigarette, start a forest fire and even keep your glaucoma at bay. After cancer this and Smokey the bear that - plus the whole legalization issue if you don't live on the coast -…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Hollywood is Dead Posters

After what feels like an eternity of being inundated with fangs, screaming teenage girls and “teams” it appears as if the vampire crazy has died down a bit.  Shows like AMC’s The Walking Dead, however, have ushered in a new trend - zombies.  Yup, pale, skeletal looking dudes are in.  (How…

By Mike Newman
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Orvis Knife-Making Kit

After much discussion, we ultimately decided that Bear Grylls is relatively manly - if for no reason other than the fact he's got a Gerber knife named after him. We also decided that the really manly men are the ones without camera crews. You know, the ones who make their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Chess Bottle Stop Set

Wine is a drink that just seems tailored for the game of chess. Let’s be honest, you’re not chugging a 40 while debating the merits of a Queen’s Gambit or ripping shots every time you successfully promote a pawn. Since, chess matches can drag on longer than a family night of…

By Mike Newman
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