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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
By Brett Braley
I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like
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I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like

I spent the last three months of 2022 working at Kinnegar Brewing, an Irish craft brewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For homebrewers who want to learn what it’s actually like to work in a brewery, an internship like this provides invaluable lessons—including lessons that can be applied to being a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging
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The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging

We'll always be big fans of desk mats. While our previous favorites were standard cutting mats, those were quickly replaced once we found out about the ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat. The ALTI features a premium vegan leather surface on one side and plush felt on the other, with a…

By Ben Dahl
Dango Products Pen Tray
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Dango Products Pen Tray

Depending on how serious you are about your personal writing instruments, you probably already have at least one or two pens from Dango Products. If you do, you’re familiar with their approach to manufacturing. Namely, they make attractive, durable pens and desk accessories out of machined aluminum. This pen tray…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Düller & Dietrich Lubs’ Notebook

Leave it to the Japanese and Germans to make sweet cars a new notebook concept.  If you're like us, you're always losing the damn pen or searching around for one, but with Düller & Dietrich Lub's notebook design, it stays put inside.  It's also somehow cool that it's concealed within…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Modern Wood Waste Bin

You've already got a new dining room table, a new clock, and an iWhatever dock in wood - what's next? The garbage can of course. Just because you throw trash in it doesn't mean it doesn't have to look as good as everything else. Is it going to make champagne…

By Ben Dahl
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IC Test

IC Test

By Tim Jacobsen
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Gom Series Pen Tray

You'll hardly seem like the cool and collected guy we know you to be if you're always clanging around your desk looking for a pen. And considering that looking organized at the office could be the difference in whether or not you keep your job over Johnson these days, you…

By Cool Material Guest
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Armed Notebook – Revolver

If you're anything like us, your brain is a revolving door of thoughts and ideas. If you don't write the important stuff down you're just going to forget it. You need a durable notebook that accurately conveys the importance of the plans for world domination contained within. Made of PVC,…

By Tim Jacobsen
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