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Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix

Just Add Vodka

The next time your home brunch plans involve booze, we recommend picking up a bottle of Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix ($8). This lightly chunky mix has all the flavor notes you’d expect from a great bloody mary including notes of Worcestershire sauce (Lea & Perrins), pepper, Tabasco, and hangover curing, sinus searing horseradish. Trust [...]

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Flashback | May 3, 2009

A Year Ago on Gear Patrol

Adobe Creative Suite 5: Master Collection

The Ultimate Design Toolbox

You may not be able to design the next great iPhone app on it (per Steve himself), but if you can stomach for the price tag, Adobe Creative Suite 5: Master Collection ($870 Upgrade, $2,599 Full) will reward you with a veritable blitzkrieg of creative tools. Likely, more than you’ll ever know what do with. [...]

Casio G-Shock Frogman GWF1000

Forget The Fancy, Go Tough

No tourbillons here. The G-Shock Frogman GWF1000 ($560) is the definition of a wristbeast. Released in late 2009, we finally got a chance to get our hands on glad to declare that it’s a gear o’beauty. That is, assuming your idea of beauty is a solar-powered, atomic-timekeeping, dive-timing son of a bitch. The self-adjusting G-Shock [...]

GoLite Lite-Speed Backpack

Anti-Gravity Pack

Backpacks have come a long way in the past couple of decades. If I had this GoLite Lite-Speed Backpack ($150) when I was in the Boy Scouts, I might not have dropped out after only achieving Second Class rank, despite the goofy uniforms and community service. Back then, the best you could get were heavy, [...]

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The Weekly Rewind | Saturday, May 1, 2010

A Look Back at Gear Patrol's Recent Finds

Red Rock Micro DSLR Cinema Bundle

Keep Steady and Shoot On

Are the flood of incredible videos shot on DSLR cameras igniting your aspirations of becoming the next eSpielberg or iAranofsky? Then it’s time to gear up. The Redrock DSLR Cinema Bundle ($2,362), besides looking deliciously mechanical, converts your otherwise plain jane video-enabled DSLR into a stabilized, field ready, cinematography production tool. Shaky video and wobbly [...]

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