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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

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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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Deckers Lab KO-Z Mule Slippers

If you had asked us if we were slipper people a year ago, the response would have been a resounding "no." You come home from work, take your shoes off, kick back and relax in your socks. Why does anyone need slippers or house shoes outside of when they're traveling?…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nairobi Entrepreneur Creates Super-Tough Bricks from Plastic Waste

If you lack inspiration in your life, just take a look at young Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, who decided to do something real about the plastic waste in her country. Her startup company Gjenge Makers is taking tons of plastic waste, combining it with sand, and forming…

By Amos Kwon
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Aleph Farms Cultivated Rib-Eye Steak

If the thought of a plant-based, 3D printed steak makes you want to run for cattle-covered hills, then take a look at this real beef ribeye created in the lab. Israel-based Aleph Farms, along with the Isreal Institue of Technology, just created the very first ribeye steak cultivated in a…

By Amos Kwon
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Curtiss the One Electric Motorcycle

When it comes to electric motorcycles, there are the rid es that roll out of Alabama-based Curtiss Motorcycles and everything else. Curtiss continues their namesake's century long period of innovation that includes the likes of the Psyche electric motorcycle and Zeus electric motorcycle with the One you see here. Curtiss…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Arctic Trucks Toyota Hilux AT35

It's too bad we can't get the rugged Toyota Hilux in America (we get the excellent Tacoma, though). It's still sold overseas and is known for its toughness. Arctic Trucks has taken the light-duty midsize truck and outfitted it for serious winter duties. It's called the AT35, and it's meant…

By Amos Kwon
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