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The Best Tank Watches For Men Are Wearable History for Your Wrist

The retro style and its “hip to be square” ethos add distinguished flair to your timepiece rotation.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Rise of Prediction Culture
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Vestaboard Is a Connected Split-Flap Display For Your Home

There's something charming about the split-flap train displays throughout Europe and parts of the U.S. The clacking shuffle of tiles is a bizarre pleasure to the ears. Now you can bring a little of that into your home with Vestaboard, a mobile device-connected display that you can use for messages…

By Mike Newman
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The Best Wireless Chargers for Your New iPhone X

Whether you found it under the tree or bought it for yourself, you now have a fancy new iPhone X or iPhone 8 that you’re just dying to make the most out of. You've installed all the latest apps, bought all the best accessories and setup your regular backups. Now what? Wireless charging!…

By Cooper Fleishman
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What to Watch This Weekend: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
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These are the Books Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Think You Should Read

Every year, powerful men and women gather in the Swiss Alps for a submit known as the World Economic Forum. Two of the mainstays of WEF are Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, a pair of the richest people in the world. Well, those two have both championed reading as one…

By Mike Newman
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The Titaner Bolt Pen Hides a Screwdriver, Mini Pin, and More

We’ve covered quite a few great Kickstarter pens over the years, many of them made out of titanium and more than a few featuring a bolt action mechanism. As the name implies, the Titaner Bolt Pen includes both of those features (some of our favorites, by the way), but this…

By Cooper Fleishman
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