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Gasp! A PVD Coated Rolex

The Rolex submariner has been a cultural icon ever since Sean Connery wore one in Dr. No.  It’s a watch that wasn’t created just to be pretty, but also to thrive under pressure (in this case, 300m under water)…kind of like a good Bond Girl.  However, even though this is my dream watch, aside from that [...]

Never Forget Your Umbrella Again

If you ever get to know me, you should know that I am unabashed in my lack of rain preparation – oft by choice. My argument is that I’m a quandary of mankind. I relish the Scotch mist, but admittedly walking a mile+ to work in rain does not make for passable office attire. Oh, [...]

Forget Flowers, Get Her Burgers

Few men will disagree with me that Valentine’s Day is a far too commercialized holiday. The intents and purposes of the day are true at heart, but honestly… expectations much?

Update: Future Sonics has provided Gear Patrol Readers a special 20% Coupon Code Below Since the advent of the digital music age (read: birth of the iPod), earphone options for delivering sound directly to your brain have multiplied like caged rabbits. In a market as flooded as this one, choosing the right product for you [...]

Zoom-Zoom For Real

There’s no doubt that smaller cars are hot right now (finally). With the Geneva Auto Show around the corner, Mazda has thrown out a few teasers to the Mazdaspeed3, a devilish vehicle powered by a 263 horsepower 2.3 liter DISI turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Sure, it might not qualify as the best method of transportation for [...]

How About Happier Endings?

Admit it. As men getting what we bleed for every NFL Sunday for this past year, we have mastered the art of doing absolutely nothing to perfection. But rather than talk about how you should worship 1080p resolution while devouring honey-glazed duck wings topped with charred jalapenos, I want to share with you something even [...]

World's Safest Most Dangerous Endurance Competition

A man’s life is a series of challenges. Some challenges are tough. Others, not so much. Both come by choice or by fate. Men of mettle will undoubtedly choose to partake in certain competitions (triathlons, marathons, trails of Appalachia or the Rockies) which are all fine and good, but sometimes men just want to be [...]

It belongs in your ManPocket.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve held up pending group shots whilst searching for a stable surface on which to perch my camera. Enter a simple, elegant solution to my problem created by Manfrotto (Italian makers of professional photography staging equipment, not denizens of Middle Earth). It’s called the Modopocket and, quite simply, [...]

2009′s Super Bowl XLIII has come and gone. The Steelers’s last minute win over the Cardinals will undoubtedly remain a fond/unfond memory, but it’s the commercials, the bloody commercials, that will permeate water cooler conversation for months to come. Some men will argue there were better (if so, leave a comment). Some men will argue [...]

It’s safe to say that very little has changed on bicycles since they first became popular at the beginning of the 20th century.   So, when I saw the new Trek District and Soho, I instantly thought “GAME CHANGER.” Trek has gone all Mavericky on us and dropped the ubiquitous chain for a new carbon fiber belt [...]

The Apollo 13 mission may not exactly have been NASA’s most successful mission, but it made for a great movie (Bill Paxton, for better or worse). Two missions prior though, Apollo 11 made history when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked the surface of the moon with oft forgotten command module pilot Michael Collins. If [...]

Alright men, it’s time to buy a humidifier. With no end to the cold in sight, most of us have been running the heat 24/7. Although it feels great to cozy up indoors on these cold winter days, there’s one thing that we often ignore – humidity level. One big side effect of crankin’ up [...]