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A Gear Patrol favorite, CoD:WW Wages A Blitzkrieg On Our Free Time Here at Gear Patrol, we are eminently qualified to opine on the best in men’s entertainment. Why so, you may ask? Primarily, it’s because we, ourselves, are men. We can empathize with the struggle to prioritize sensory assaults among thought-provoking reading, the latest [...]

It Might Just Change The Way You Shoot Photographs – For Good. There is something magical that happens when you pick up the new Canon 5D Mark II. Everything from eyeing the full-frame shot, to hitting the 3.9fps shutter, to finally seeing the image in all its glory on the crisp, sharp, full-framed 920,000 pixel [...]

Big Watches From a Small Company Fellow dive watch enthusiasts, we live in fortunate times. The big Swiss and Japanese watch houses are cranking out new models annually in a veritable arms race to see who can go deeper. Lucky for men like us, at the other end of the spectrum there exists a burgeoning [...]

What Man Doesn’t Like Bright And Shiny? The advent of LED bulbs has been kind to the EDC (every day carry) flashlight industry. Suddenly, you’ve got hundreds of lumens of lighting goodness in a device smaller than the palm of your hand. I keep one in my desk at work, in the glove compartment of [...]

Gear Up Properly For The Airplane Snorer By my reckoning, headphones can be categorized as either inexpensive/expensive, in-ear/on-ear/shit-ugly. Sure, there are plenty of options available for men of all walks, but recently I found myself in need of gear to stave off the crying baby or snorer that I inevitably find seated next to me [...]

Further Argument For A Patio Nothing really warms up a man’s home more than a roaring fire. Unfortunately, not every living room is equipped with a fireplace or hearth. Note: A hearth can be summed up as a fireplace so large you could walk inside it. Open fireplaces are a great addition to any man’s [...]

Forget Your Drive. How About Your Buckle? One of the hottest trends on the PGA Tour this year was the emergence (or ressurgence?) of the belt buckle. From Anthony Kim to Rory Sabbatini, sporting a little bling around the waist has proven itself a great way to step up any golfer’s wardrobe. Not ready to [...]

With the unemployment rate at 7.2%, (See the NYTimes) chances are you or someone close to you has recently lost their job. As a matter of fact, there’s one right here… me. As I write this, I myself am in the midst of my own layoff. Let me tell you, it sucks. I’ve been unemployed [...]

(CES 2009) Don’t Call It An iPalm iPre iPlease If there’s a company or phone I’m rooting to replace my iPhone, it’s Palm. I remember a decade ago when I had a Palm III and thought that my badass self was the closest thing to Michael Douglas a la Wall Street. Fast forward to 2009 [...]

(CES 2009) Run For Your Money iPod Not all companies in the portable media game can afford to drown the known advertising universe with crazy-haired silhouettes grooving across fluorescent dance floors. Thankfully, for a company like iriver, the lack of promotional clout hasn’t dissuaded them from continuous innovation. Instead, iriver’s CES announcement of the P7 [...]

Timeless In More Ways Than One If you’re no longer in college, chances are you probably have some sort of messenger bag or briefcase that’s supplanted your backpack. Maybe you’re even carrying one that Gear Patrol turned you onto. Personally, I use a nice Timbuk2 bag that my wife gave me, and it has served [...]

If Only Everything Was Goose Down… A down vest or jacket should be a man’s winter wardrobe essential. The sheer warmth and comfort that goose down provides are nothing short of spectacular. But, honestly though, most options for men are either geared towards scaling K2, high fashion, or simply too granola. Penfield’s Rockwool vest strikes [...]

Sad Variations on a Theme By Ben Bowers: The end of one year and the begining of the next is often a time rightly used for reflection. So, considering the kind of year 2008 has been, I felt this fleeting moment should be used to comb for lessons that we can all learn from by [...]

If you’re the type of guy that believes a t-shirt is relegated to serving soley as an undershirt, then I would ask you to open your mind to another dimension in your wardrobe. You may not know this, but thanks to masses of WWII photos featuring soldiers donning their “undershirts” and military pants that circulated [...]

Macworld 2009 Comprehensive Round-up While tomorrow’s headlines might read, “Apple Announces New Products, Steve Jobs Nowhere To Be Found,” we think anyone who knows anything about Apple should applaud Phil Schiller (President of Apple). His presentation at Macworld 2009 was fantastic, and all of us here at Gear Patrol feel he finally deserves some bloody [...]