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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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Whether you're staring at the front end in the rearview, or admiring it up close, there are iconic automobiles that you'll immediately recognize from only a quick glance; NOMO Designs has immortalized almost all of them in their Auto Icon Screen Print Series. Aston Martin. Audi. BMW. Ferrari. GM. Jaguar.…

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Cheap TVs: The Best Televisions Under $600

There are men out there who will spend a tremendous amount of money on their home entertainment systems. Dropping three grand on a top-of-the-line, 3D, 4k, 80-inch something-or-other makes perfect sense to them. And that’s fine. But for us—for you? Television is a mere auxiliary tool, tucked deeply inside your…

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Criquet’s Players Shirt Will Help Your Game On and Off the Course

Bacon collar. It's a problem that has affected polo shirts for ages. What looks fresh right off the rack soon has a collar as wavy as a crispy breakfast side. Criquet's Players Shirt wants to put an end to this. Inspired by the classically cool polo shirts worn by the likes…

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Barebones Camping Lights

When it comes to seeing that hiking trail, the bottom of your camping bag, or just the great outdoors at night, Barebones has you covered. Their lantern and flashlights are built to perform when the stars are in the sky. The Scout Flashlight and Trailblazer Flashlight boast rechargeable batteries, multiple settings, and rugged…

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PolyWood Polygonal Wood Toys

Freelance illustrator and 3D artist Mat Szulik has created a new conceptual series of toys that seamlessly blur the line between his low poly style and the wooden toys that were so common long ago. Done as a personal project in his free time, the PolyWood collection includes a giraffe,…

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