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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

The products our editors have been obsessed with in July 2026.

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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 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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

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The U.S. Navy 3D-Printed a Sub

The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, in conjunction with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 3D-printed the Optionally Manned Technology Demonstrator (OMTD) in just four weeks using the lab's Big Area Additive Manufacturing machine. The final product is thirty feet long, four and a half feet in diameter and was built…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
8 Pairs of Slippers that Don’t Look Like Your Grandfather’s

Household footwear can be a tricky prospect. Some houses make you take your shoes off, some look at you weird if you do, and others have people wandering around in whatever they want. Whatever you choose is fine, but everything comes with its own pros and cons. You could be…

By Maxwell Barna
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Retro Technology LEGO Kits

The great thing about LEGO is you can build anything you want. What they don't tell you about that, however, is most of the things you want to build don't come with guide books.  But the LEGO community often takes it upon itself to create its own guide books. Take…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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These Animated GIFs Explore Complex Mathematical Concepts

Frédéric Vayssouze-Faure is a French animator that creates animated GIFs to visualize complex mathematical concepts. From exploding dandelions and rotating lines of text to pendulum domino experiments and retro video game style flyovers, each mesmerizing animation explores things like sine functions and oscillations visually. All the animated GIFs are published…

By Cooper Fleishman
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adidas Originals Crazy 1 ADV

If we're being completely honest, the first few iterations of the adidas Crazy 1 sneakers were, in our opinion, anything but a legendary pair of shoes. Outside of the "pinched-in-the-middle" sole that has adorned all the pairs of this particular kick, the adidas Originals Crazy 1 ADV is completely different. With…

By Cooper Fleishman
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