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The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026
Lifestyle
The Coolest Father’s Day Gifts of 2026
By Cool Material
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Lifestyle
Laphroaig’s New Whisky Comes With No Tasting Notes And a Chance to Hang with Willem Dafoe

The brand's second Dafoe collaboration is a 14-year single malt with no official tasting notes. Write the best one, and you could end up on set with the legend himself.

By Andy Vasoyan
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Lifestyle
The Ancient Art of Cooking Dinner Beneath Your Feet

Across nearly every continent, cultures have discovered the same thing. The earth makes a pretty incredible oven.

By Lola Méndez
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Lifestyle
The Anti-Instagram Cocktail Era Is Here

Why bartenders and drinkers are ditching the garnish circus and getting back to minimalistic cocktails.

By Christopher Osburn
Computers
Analogue’s Game Boy Clone Will Play All Your Old Portable Cartridges

If you want to revisit all your favorite games from your youth, there are plenty of options out there ranging from pre-packaged hardware systems to ROMs. Nothing really nails the nostalgia factor like the offerings from Analogue that use modern hardware to play your old cartridges in better than original…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Chevy Colorado ZR2 Infantry Squad Vehicle

The current Chevy Colorado ZR2 is a hot-selling off-road-focused pickup, and now the U.S. military wants to up that ruggedness quotient by creating an Infantry Squad Vehicle for tactical and combat duties. The GM Defense arm of the Detroit automaker just received a contract to build 650 of them, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Lunaz Design Electric Classic Cars

Purists might consider electrifying automotive legends just plain wrong, but Lunaz Design is taking the glorious automotive past and infusing them with zero-emissions powertrains that extend the lives of these special cars. The company takes vintage exotics like the 1953 Jaguar XK120 and a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V and installs…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Coca-Cola Tic Tacs

Coca-Cola has seen their fair share of interesting new products and collaborations that puts the unique Coke flavor in places and products other than a glass of ice. But even we never thought we'd see the day we'd be able to shake tiny Coca-Cola flavored mints out of a Tic…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Monopoly: Shinola Detroit Edition

While there are a lot of games that pop into our head when we think of "board games," the first will always be Monopoly. In addition to ruining more friendly gatherings and family holidays than we can remember, it's also had more versions than any other game we can think…

By Cooper Fleishman
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