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Why NORQAIN Might Be the Best Swiss Watch Brand You Haven’t Looked at Yet
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How PITAKA’s Sunset Collection Is Shaping the Future of Emotional Design

High-performance tech gear meets pure visual poetry.

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Wellen Performance-Lined Swim Trunks, Reviewed by a Swim Trunk Skeptic

Could these be the shorts to end all my swimwear complaints? Tried, tested, reviewed.

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

It took a decade to create this watch band innovation. And it was worth the wait.

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Watch the Second Trailer for ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’

At least part of the motivation for making this movie, or casting it the way they did, has to be getting Deadpool and Nick Fury in the same movie. Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson don't have their normal costumes for that, but the characters are close enough that this…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Atari is Making a New Console

Atari hasn't been a relevant name in hardware production in years, so their recent announcement of an impending console release came as a surprise. What's more is the console doesn't seem to be the retro collection box you'd expect. Instead of packing games into an updated system the way the NES…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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The Best Book Covers of 2016

If you were to judge a book by its cover, each of these would win the Pulitzer. AIGA Design Archive, which has been cataloging great design since the '20s, teamed up with Design Observer to crown the best designed books of last year. Two lists were released. One of the lists includes…

By Mike Newman
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Artist Turns Typewriters Into Guns

We’ve seen plenty of artists take ordinary objects, disassemble them and turn them into something completely different. Éric Nado is a Canadian artist who turns typewriters into guns. Each Royal, Underwood, Tippa, Rheinmetall, Remington, Brother or Lettera typewriter is painstakingly broken down into its constituent parts before being rebuilt, sometimes…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Indian Motorcycle Made Tattoo Ink With Burnout Ash

Want to really prove that riding is in your blood? Indian Motorcycle made tattoo ink with burnout ash from legendary racer Carey Hart’s Indian Super Hooligan. Indian teamed up with Hart’s longtime friend and co-founder of Nocturnal Ink, Franco Vescovi, to use the carbon from the burnout ash produced by Hart’s bike…

By Cooper Fleishman
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