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Getting the Most Out of Those $20 Pieces of Plastic

You may be through with the whole disc-based movie thing at this point, but anyone who demands the best in video quality will value the firepower of Onkyo’s newly announced BD-SP809 Blu-ray player ($599). It’s THX certified, and sports Marvell’s Qdeo processing for top notch DVD 1080p upscaling and Blu-ray video quality. Home theater geeks [...]

Stand Tall

Posture is an often overlooked element in any training or athletic environment. The premise is simple though: better posture leads to more efficient muscle engagement and cuts down on fatigue. What you may not realize is that those benefits can help in your day to day life as well. Intelliskin’s Foundation Shirt 2.0 ($95) provides [...]

From Peru to you

In the mid-to-late 1800s, pisco was all over San Francisco, shipped up the coast from Peru to quench the thirst of hopeful gold miners who moved west in 1849. Pisco Punch was the most popular cocktail at the time, and in general, life was good for pisco producers until Prohibition ended its rampant supply. Since [...]

Tour De Stance

If you’re one of the 7,999,000,822 people on this earth who didn’t qualify for the Tour De France this year, riding the Pro-Form Le Tour De France Indoor Cycling Bike ($1,300) is one way to simulate what the pros feel over their 2,132 mile journey — aside from beating your quads with a sledgehammer. Blessed [...]

Where hammers fear to tread

Required ingredients to forge one badass hammer: 19 oz balanced head, 18 inches of Tennessee Hickory and monumental biceps. Okay, maybe not the last, but you’ll find the former two in this collaboration between our friends at Base Camp X and Hardcore Hammers who have somehow managed to take a ubiquitous tool and turn it [...]

For cobblestones, a site for sore eyes

8pm, 78 Greene Street | In celebration of the Northeast Grand Prix Lime Rock, bespoke clothier Seize sur Vingt hosted the teams and cars from the American Le Mans Series. Besides the company of admirers, in attendance were Extreme Speed Motorsports, Genoa Racing and 12 year old go-kart champ Santino Ferrucci (in the orange shirt) [...]

Family Dragster

The last generation M5 will have its final hurrah in five-door form and under cover of darkness. Edo Competition, the mad German tuner, has just pulled the cover off its BMW M5 Dark Edition. The V10 has been ramped up to 555 horsepower from the original and already ferocious 500 via increased air flow, allowing [...]

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Bikepack

The Bergmönch is designed to provide the best of both worlds for mountain bikers. Adrenaline junkies can haul the “device” up the summit of their choice as a collapsible rucksack — complete with a weight distributing waist strap and padded harness. Once the hard work is over, the bag can then mutate into a downhill-optimized [...]

A Different Kind of Board Room

If you thought IKEA was the krill of the furniture food chain, you’d be wrong. Rather than wasting energy coating particle board to become modern furniture for the every man, Karton simply uses heavy duty cardboard to achieve the same end (sort of). According to the website, the Australian company was born after leaving “a [...]

Mean Mow Green

Using an electric push mower over their gas guzzling counterparts previously involved some serious power and range tradeoffs for homeowners. The Worx 788 cordless electric lawn mower ($430) changes the game thanks to a high capacity 36V PowerTank battery, which eliminates the need for pesky extension cords and allows the 19-inch mower to cut up [...]

Henderson, the Raen King

Studies based entirely off of vintage pop culture speculation have shown that the quickest way to up your cool-factor is by either smoking or wearing sunglasses. Since the first has shown to cause early onset death, we’ll put our stamp of approval on a pair of shades. And unless your day job involves the paparazzi [...]

Floating Sculpture

Can a kayak be considered a work of art? Nick Schade certainly thinks so. Since 1986, Schade has created hand-made kayaks under the imprint Guillemot Kayaks creating one stunning vessel after the next in his Maine workshop. Using a unique “strip-built” method commonly utilized with canoes, these seafaring stunners do more than just look good [...]

Won't Kill The Messenger

Messenger bags can either be a huge help or a huge pain for cyclists or commuters, depending on quality and design. We’ve been through my fair share of them in the past year to know what works and what doesn’t. Well, Tom Bihn has a formula that works and works wonders. Tom Bihn is a [...]

Get Connected, then Boogie

Designed for demanding adventurers with a slight case of OCD, a good thing, the GearPods Connect ($7+) modular system is the OXO containers of the survival gear world. The pods, which come in four sizes stand individually, attach to each other via double-threaded connectors or serve as an end cap making on-the-fly storage a simple, [...]