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At This 5-Star Lake Garda Hotel, Doing Nothing Is Everything
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At This 5-Star Lake Garda Hotel, Doing Nothing Is Everything
By Jay Gentile
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Lifestyle
A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026 Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026
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Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in October 2026.

By Cool Material
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
Home
Folded Vessel Storage Unit

Designed by Chen Chen & Kai Williams for Brooklyn-based design house Good Thing, Folded Vessel is a multi-purpose storage unit / rack unlike most other options on the market. Folded Vessel is made in Pennsylvania and assembles to form an open cube with legs that's perfectly sized to store and display…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Tiny Arcade Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

Tiny Arcade, produced by open source hardware company TinyCircuits out of Ohio, is producing retro arcade cabinets that are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Powered by a 32-bit ARM processor and housed in an acrylic, wood or 3D-printed enclosure, Tiny Arcade lets you play games…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Late, Boozy Nights in Paris with Rémy Martin

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's this: When a dude sends you an email at 9:00 on a Wednesday morning asking if you'd like to go to Paris (and they aren't a Nigerian prince trying to wire you money), you take it—no questions asked. The crew at…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Levitating Cup

Go find all your coasters and throw them in the trash. It's time to drink your whiskey like a goddamn sorcerer. Available as either a wired version or a wireless version, the Levitating CUP uses a series of magnets and an electrical field to make your glass of scotch hover in…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Complete Guide to Printing Professional Quality Photos at Home

In this day and age, photography is more accessible than ever before. The folks at Apple brag about their phone’s ability to take billboard quality photos in a package that fits inside your pants’ pocket. Canon recently came out with a consumer-grade DSLR with a sensor that boasts 50 megapixels,…

By Maxwell Barna
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