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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

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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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Travel
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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What We're Buying
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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Lifestyle
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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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

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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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The Most Funded Shoe in Kickstarter History Is Back

Ace Marks found a ton of success with their first designer shoe Kickstarter campaign around this time last year, so now they're bringing it back. That means you can once again get ridiculously high quality Italian footwear for less than $200.  Two tiers of Early Bird specials put the shoes…

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‘American Playboy,’ Amazon’s Hugh Hefner Biopic Trailer

Amazon's latest Original piece is a biopic about the one and only Hugh Hefner. Say what you will about Hef: Pioneer. Provocateur. Father. Bachelor. Rebel. Activist. Visionary. Playboy. Legend. The man is an icon that absolutely deserves to have his story told. Based on the production quality of this American…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Albert Clock Makes You Calculate the Time

Learning to tell the time is one of the first important life skills any of us tackles, but the Albert Clock makes the tried and true hands method pointless because it forces you to calculate the time. It's a digital clock that mounts easily to the wall, but actually telling…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Samsung’s New Frame TV Blends into Any Art Gallery

Samsung's newest line of televisions is focusing primarily on design, and no where is this better seen than with The Frame. It's a Samsung TV when on, but switches to a high-res picture frame when "Art Mode" is selected. In Art Mode, the user can choose between 100 images in…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Autonomous House Is Zombie Proof

Ukrainian startup PassivDom (Passive House Ukraine) has developed a line of autonomous, self-learning, mobile houses using 3D-printing techniques and advanced materials. Dubbed modulOne, each of the autonomous houses is designed and built to be fully functional off grid with solar panels, batteries, heating, water storage, purification and independent sewage. Whether…

By Cooper Fleishman
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