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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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Cassette Tape Mixtape Business Cards

With so many cheesy pre-designed business card templates it's hard to make yours stand out. But if you want to get noticed, you're going to have to be louder than the other guys. Cassette Tape Mixtape Business Cards are the types of cards people will hang on to, and probably…

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Biometric Business Case

If the contents of your business case are top secret, you need more than a combination lock to keep it safe. Anyone could leak a combination (or admittedly forget one) but someone would have to do something really drastic (like cut off of a finger) to get into this case.…

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Postalco Jotter

If you're trying to capture your thoughts, whether it's to write your memoirs or what you need to pick up at the hardware store later, it's important to have a notepad that's easy to write on so nothing interrupts your flow of thought. Postalco gets it and wants to ensure…

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AIAIAI A-Stand

An ergonomic workstation keeps you comfortable and productive all day (and when you're working for yourself writing for a cool men's blog you suddenly care much more about your productivity). PhD Dan Steingart came up with this ergonomic design to keep your laptop eye level to avoid neck strain. AIAIAI…

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Notepod iPhone Notebooks

Ever hear of a hipster's PDA? It's basically just a bunch of note cards held together with a clip that Pabst Blue Ribbon drinking indie fans use to store phone numbers. Well now hipsters can have their own version of the iPhone too. The biggest pros of course are that…

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