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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey
Lifestyle
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey

Breckenridge Distillery’s newest bottle starts with some of the most coveted peaches in America.

By Beau Hayhoe
Transportation
Koenigsegg Gemera Four-Seat Hypercar

Christian von Koenigsegg has imagined building a true-four seat hypercar for almost two decades, and he's finally realized it in the carbon fiber flesh. Rather than a cramped 2+2 grand tourer, the Gemera has four true seats for actual adults and provides untrammeled ingress and egress, to boot. The big…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Makeway Is a Modular, Magnetic Marble Super Puzzle

We love puzzles. We love magnets. We also love marbles, Rube Goldberg machines, building things and, well, any reasonably good excuse to waste as much time as possible. That's where Makeway comes in. Makeway is kind of like building one of those Hot Wheels race tracks from your youth except…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
One of Our Favorite Cast Iron Skillets Is on Sale for $15

Here at Cool Material, we really love our cast iron. Whether it’s the versatility, the durability or the taste that cast iron imparts to all your dishes, there’s just something about the material that makes it better than almost everything else on the market. While a case can certainly be made…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
LEGO Creator 1960s Fiat 500

We let out a huge sigh of relief when we realized the new LEGO Fiat 500 was not a miniature brick version of the current Fiat 500 because that would've been a waste of plastic. This new one delivers vintage goodness of the 1960s Fiat 500F, an automotive icon in…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Cake Kalk Ink

Minimalism and electric power on a motorcycle can be intimidating or just plain fun. The new Swedish Cake Kalk Ink falls into the latter camp with its love of trails. The bike is based on its excellent Kalk Or but it adds a simpler suspension, more robust wheels while still…

By Amos Kwon
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