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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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Simple Shower Turns a Bottle Into a Shower

Cleaning up after a long day in the outdoors generally sucks, but it doesn't have to with the Simple Shower. Made in Washington State using recycled materials, the Simple Shower turns bottles into showers to make the outdoor cleanup process a lot easier. Designed to work with a variety of different…

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8 New Apps You Should Know

Instead of wading through the massive amount of new app releases searching for a few diamonds in the rough, just let us be your guide. This is a collection of our favorite new apps for both iOS and Android for your downloading pleasure. Brewswap Outside of the questionable legality of…

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Mack Weldon Put Real Silver in Their Underwear

Turns out that silver in your underwear has a more practical purpose than keeping your more crucial parts out of the jaws of werewolves. Mack Weldon is the first to make underwear out of X-Static XT2, the patented silver/cotton hybrid fabric and not, as we thought, Tesla's newest car model.…

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8 Great Moments in Drug History

Ahhhh drugs… Where would we be without those little liquids, herbs, pills, and powders that make our world a little more interesting? They’ve inspired some of our greatest music, laid the roots to some of our most prolific art, and even brought us to some history-changing discoveries. Everything from incredible…

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Greg’s Garage Twisted Sharpie

Greg Porter, of Greg's Garage, is a YouTube DIY mastermind that has tackled everything from homemade guitars and CNC machines to vintage tool restorations and custom paint jobs. He got fed up with his Sharpies always rolling around the bench so he set out to create something better: the Twisted…

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