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Peerless Pinching Power

We’ve already taken the opportunity to introduce you to a few of SOG’s outstanding blade offerings. Now we’d like you to meet one of their more versatile products, the PowerAssist multitool. To be clear, SOG offers a bevy of useful pocket powerhouses in their multipurpose tool line. The PowerAssist represents a great smattering of useful [...]

Because 5 Pieces Are Better Than, Well, Pretty Much Anything Less

It’s not uncommon to see a stack of nondescript boxes littering the Gear Patrol mail room. Recently, found amidst said pile was a package from our good friends at Taylormade Golf containing the yet to be released Penta TP golf ball. To say that we did not dance the customary happy dance before bolting to [...]

A Vacation Destination That's Closer Than You Think

In honor of it being that time of year when many of us are returning from a holiday and a sandy beach to the doldrums of our busy lives, we bring to you The HammockSource. Whether you are lying in a hammock feeling the ocean breeze and drinking a Corona or just in your backyard [...]

Plaid Gets Rad

In anticipation of Labor Day soon becoming a distant memory, Gap’s new line of shirts has your fall look dead in their sights. Based on what we’ve seen, they’re bolstering plaid as the go to pattern in Fall/Winter 2009. That, or maybe that’s just our friend over at Allplaidout rubbing off on them. Regardless of [...]

Custom Made, Custom Paid, and Custom Fitted

The suiting mad men of Indochino have upped the ante in the custom-suiting game: bespoke-quality suiting. Normally reserved for men with well-endowed, ahem, wallets, bespoke suiting is nothing new to our readers. What is is new, however, is an offering of bespoke suits at such incredible prices. Since Gear Patrol last covered Indochino Suits, the [...]

Das Boot Tour of Duty Not Included

If you like watches and haven’t heard of Stowa, allow us to educate you. Out of Engelsbrand, Germany, Stowa has been producing timepieces since 1927. All their cases are machined in the Stowa factory (they just moved into a new facility this year), where they are mated with ETA and Unitas movements. This level of [...]

Smart Tracking for Smarter Training

Anyone looking to tally precise details of their cycling endeavors should mull over buying the Edge 500. This lightweight GPS-Based cycling computer is a data nuts dream and calculates everything including speed, distance, calories burned, altitude, climb, and descent. While monitoring, it also records this information for comparison purposes which trainers can access on their [...]

Achievement Fiends Unite!

We’re back with the second installment of our 10 Best Video Games feature, and this week’s post addresses our recommended plays for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. You all chimed in with some great comments and tweets regarding last week’s PS3 listings and you are encouraged to do the same here. Again, bear in mind that [...]

Don't Take Away My Kodachrome

Before Photoshop. Before Canon Digital ELPHs or Digital Rebels. Before Sony Mavicas,or Nikon Coolpix cameras. Before all of these photographic marvels of the digital age, there was film. Yes, film. You know, smelly canisters, 1 hour developing (which was fast, mind you), pain-in-the-ass loading, film. Recently passed the last official day Eastman Kodak cranked out [...]

Post-it Notes Better Watch Their Back

Sometimes, a quickly-scrawled, half-torn receipt of a note just isn’t enough to get your message across. This is especially true if, let’s say for instance, you were having a beer before heading over to a Knick’s game and accidentally spilled it all over your girlfriend’s cashmere sweater while she was working late (hypothetically… of course). [...]

Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously (Indeed!)

Though you might consider the following to be somewhat oxymoronic, the back cover of William Gurstelle’s latest effort, Absinthe & Flamethrowers, describes the content within as having been “written for smart risk takers.” That sounds like a group of chaps who frequent this little corner of the interwebs, all of you Gear Patrol readers and [...]