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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
This 1970 Dodge Challenger Is Packing 2,500 Horsepower

Whether it’s at cruising nights, car shows or automotive events, we’ve seen our fair share of impressively powered old school muscle cars. Australia’s Rides by Kam makes cars that, comparatively, make even those impressive beasts seem like they’re stock. Case in point—this completely restored 1970 Dodge Challenger affectionately referred to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Hyundai and Uber VTOL Air Taxi Concept

It feels like it's been an eternity since we first reported--to the shock of absolutely no one--that Uber was working on flying cars. The Uber Elevate Air Taxi surface was originally touted as being airborne by 2020, which we thought was a pipe dream because none of the other prototype…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Kohler Moxie Voice Alexa-enabled Showerhead Speaker

Going against the generally safe policy of not combining electronics and water, Kohler just unveiled a showerhead speaker named the Moxie Voice. Not only does it look beautiful with its speaker integrated into the center of the showerhead, its sound is provided by Harman Kardon which uses noise-canceling tech to…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Take a Look inside the New Noma Restaurant in Copenhagen

In case you haven't binge-watched every chef show and food documentary on Netflix, René Redzepi is one of the world's greatest living chefs. His renowned restaurant Noma was voted Best Restaurant in The World four separate times in the beginning of the aughts, and many people had life-changing food experiences…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Curtiss Motors Hades 1 Pure

Don't be surprised if one day you find the Hades 1 Pure electric motorcycle in a museum of modern art because that's where it belongs. Newly named Curtiss Motors (formerly Confederate Motorcycles) just showed off their latest stunning two-wheeled creation that begs to be ogled like the machined beauty it…

By Amos Kwon
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