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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
Entertainment
Alessandro Paglia ‘Smashed’ Iconic Movie Cars

In case you haven't heard of Alessandro Paglia, he's a Milan-based artist and designer educated in the world of product design that made his bones creating one-off, realistic drawings of iconic cars getting smashed to pieces from a top-down perspective. Iconic taxis from films. Dodge Chargers emblazoned with Americana. Herbie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The UBCO FRX1 Trail Bike Has a Top Speed of 50 Mph

New Zealand-based electric bike manufacturer is following up on the success of their UBCO 2x2 Utility Bike with a new trail bike that is decidedly more performance focused than their previous releases. It's called the UBCO FRX1 Trail Bike, and it's every bit as fast as it looks. When we…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Teenage Engineering Just Released Plans so You Can 3D Print Your Own IKEA Frekvens Accessories

The IKEA x Teenage Engineering Frekvens Electronics collection perfectly encapsulated the brands' desires for affordable, fun, funky and infinitely hackable products. Teenage Engineering is taking the hackability aspect of the Frekvens line one stop further than the accessories they already released with IKEA with a whole new collection of accessories…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Cuss Collar Is a Dog Collar That Swears Whenever Your Dog Barks

There are a lot of great options for dog collars on the market, but none of them will amuse you quite like the Cuss Collar from Mschf Labs. It's a relatively simple product that combines a patent leather collar strap with an injection-molded speaker that does exactly what you think…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Amalgam Scale Model Cars Are as Detailed as the Real Thing

Whether it was LEGO, Technic, Erector or the plastic kits for cars or planes, most of you reading this grew up building models of some kind. When it comes to scale model cars, there's Amalgam and everyone else. Bristol, England-based Amalgam has been making the scale model equivalent of Swiss…

By Cooper Fleishman
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