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This Watch Times Your Grilling

The GrillTimer Watch was born when the Little Griddle company's president realized he'd never taken his diving watch deeper than 10 feet underwater, but frequently used it to time things he was cooking on the grill. It's a situation we can relate to and turned out to be a great lightbulb…

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Malle W. Trousseau’s Ultimate Kitchen Set

Assembling a collection of fine pieces of kitchenware usually includes a trip to one store for knives, a trip to another for a handcrafted cutting board, and many others for all your other necessities. You could do that, or you could just buy this Male W. Trousseau set. Okay, the…

By Mike Newman
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u-Jays On-Ear Headphones

The Swedes know a thing or two about stunning minimal design. While that's usually seen in clean pieces of furniture, here's a bit of it in a pair of on-ear headphones. Developed over the course of two years, the u-JAYS blend an authentic listening experience with a design that's free…

By Mike Newman
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FB1 Race-Taxi

For all the love the VW bus gets, little to none of it is earned from its killer performance. That's what makes the FB1 Race-Taxi so wild. What appears as just a freshly painted 1962 Volkswagen T1 Bulli Van, is actually a beast with 530 horsepower and 558 pound-feet of torque.…

By Mike Newman
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Giveaway: Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Gift Box

We have a thing for sharp packaging. Give us a cool font, a clever design, or a minimal approach because we like to judge books by covers. So when this killer hardwood suitcase showed up from Bulleit, we had to think twice before following through with our promise to give it…

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