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Czech It Out

More than two centuries old, Becherovka ($26) is a bitter herbal liqueur hailing from the Czech town of Karlovy Vary. The top-secret recipe includes a mix of more than 20 herbs and spices blended with aromatic oils and mineral-rich water. It’s the number one imported spirit from the Czech Republic, but until its recent distribution [...]

Keep Your Cool

Igloo’s Yukon series “cold locker” coolers ($330+) are a new breed of portable storage capable of keeping contents cool for up to fourteen days(!) on the road. Before your brain starts wandering to week long beer-a-thons on a deserted beach, be clear that these professional grade coolers were built with lengthy hunting & fishy trips [...]

The dream becomes reality

How many watch geeks have dreamed of starting a watch company? Well, for two guys from Minneapolis, the dream has become reality. Last year, we told you about a new dive watch micro-brand, RedSea. At that time, they only had ideas, some computer-generated mockups and a pile of credit card debt. Now they’ve got a [...]

A Stampede-Full of Horses

The current Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is undoubtedly a rubber roaster. Heck, it’ll even cook unwitting sports cars just for fun. The Hennessey version is even more ferocious. Well, Bulgarian tuner Vilner decided to dial up the heat even more with the 2011 Vilner Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT600. Still utilizing Hennessey’s Vortech turbo powered 5.7 [...]

Pack It In

Gear Patrol favorite Goruck has launched their first accessory offering in the form of the Brick Bag. In spite of its misnomer of a name (re: it’s not actually intended for bricks), the Brick Bag is an excellent addition to the Goruck line. Built from the same 1000D Cordura, ballistic nylon, mil-spec webbing and hardware [...]

Inventory Magazine: The socks by Beams Plus offer a great way to mix some bright colors into your outfit in a subtle way. The 3 colors available all bring some interesting combination. Made in Japan, the mix of fabrics offer great quality, a comfortable fit and a long lasting product. $28 | Beams.co.jp

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Polo Heads to Brooklyn

Fashion giant Ralph Lauren has launched a new brand, Denim & Supply, that according to the press literature is born out of the warehouse and artistic communities of Brooklyn. From what we’ve seen, the entire line is defined by a weathered, vintage look (which isn’t all that surprising given Brooklyn’s their muse) that seems to [...]

Eat it, Aerobie

The brainchild of two New York designers who found themselves inspired by a scrap piece of cardboard, the Hela Disc ($19) is an entirely new way to go about the much-addictive ritual of throwing a round, disc-shaped object with gusto. Developed with unique physics and in-flight mechanics, the Hela boasts an ability to be thrown [...]

Less thinking, more sightseeing. Thanks to radar?

With built-in Augmented Reality and GPS capabilities, the Fuji FinePix F600 EXR makes travel-shooting a cinch. Using the built-in GPS the F600 notifies users when they’re close to a landmark, then tags location coordinates to each photo. You can even point the camera down to pull up a ~1 mile radar to identify over 1 [...]

Basecamp for the Workaholic

We don’t know about you, but we’d be hard pressed to find anyone who works just 40 hours anymore and if you’re like us then a solid chunk of those hours are firmly planted behind a desk. Good thing, the ergonomic aces at Herman Miller have developed a fatigue-reducing, posture-saving solution: the Envelop Desk ($960). [...]

Captivating Clip

The latest project from Jens Anso, the Anso Titanium Carabiner ($125) is CNC milled from thick titanium then beadblasted, anodized and stonewashed in either blue, green or bronze. Measuring 3″ x 1.5″, the 1.2 oz carabiner also features a custom stainless steel spring. Only 24 have been made in the first batch, which means you’ll [...]

This amazing compilation is exactly what it sounds like. Created by super cut master HH1Edits, it’s totally unsuitable for work and definitely shouldn’t be shared in polite company. Enjoy, thoroughly.

Excellence For the Rest of Us

Utter the Runco name around most men, and you’ll trigger a chain reaction that ends with their wallet hiding in a cave of happiness, shivering in anticipation of the pillaging to come. The company’s new Light Style 1 HD DLP Projector ($4,000) still packs a wallop of sticker shock, but it’s down right affordable compared [...]

1,000,000 Reasons

When is too fast, too fast? Never, at least when it comes to cameras. And so we have the Phantom v1610 ($TBA), a widescreen camera that shoots 16,000 frames-per-second at 1280×800 resolution. Whether you want to capture the joys of breaking, shaking or destroying something at high-speed, Phantom cameras rarely disappoint. Of course, if you’re [...]