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Anchor Your Winter Style

Sunny Sports is a West Coast-inspired Japanese clothing brand focused on producing timeless pieces designed to look good today and for years to come. Like many Japanese brands, they also value production quality above all else and subsequently produce their entire line in either the US or Japan. The Anchor Jacket ($300) embodies both of [...]

Lil' Snooze

Made entirely of durable Duck Canvas, the Bow Wow Bed ($20+) can be filled with your stuffing of choice (old pillows, memory foam, old shirts) to create a long-lasting chaise for good ol’ Rover. The zipper-free construction is safe for Chewy McChewers and available in a variety of sizes and personal messages like your pet’s [...]

Wrapture

Originally conceived in 1896, the Brooks Challenge Bag ($88) should easily draw discerning cyclists and their penchant for well-made accessories. The best way to carrying bike tools we’ve seen, the Challenge bag tightly cradles tools to prevent movement during transport and when strapped to the saddle, covers the buckles to deter prying hands. Naturally, they [...]

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Mark Zuckerburg, for better or worse, has changed the way the world communicates. That may sound hyperbolic, but it’s the truth. It just so happens that in the process of doing this, he also wound up becoming a billionaire several times over — while still in college. The Social Network ($17) may not portray the [...]

C-Classy

NAIAS (aka the 2011 Detroit Auto Show) is churning out some seriously impressive vehicles this year, and the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe is no exception. After two generations of less-than-impressive C-Class sedan designs, overshadowed by the offerings by BMW, the current generation C-Class sedan serves as the design launching pad for the rakishly good looking [...]

Network complaints not included (so far)

Look familiar? Well, that’s because the same great (or not-so-great if you swing that way) iPhone 4 will be available on Verizon Wireless beginning February 10, after a purported 1 year of network testing. That means FaceTime video calling, the Retina Display, a 5 megapixel camera with HD video, and of course, the tidal wave [...]

Mount MacKindly

Now that you’ve got your Philips Cinema Display hanging on the wall, what about your Mac Mini turned home theater PC? Well, give it some ambient back-lighting love with a backlit mount. The mount, made of recyclable materials replaces the newer unibody Mac Mini’s stock base without any sacrifices in features or connectivity. Once replaced, [...]

Slice through competition

Motion gamers: Shake, rattle and roll to your hearts content–but most still rely on the analog controller as their weapon of choice. Microsoft recently released an updated version of the 360 controller–now with a less blister inducing D-pad, but it’s Razer that has upped the stakes in the quest for the perfect console controller. Available [...]

Plowing through yardwork... literally.

Have you ever driven past a construction site and wondered just how much yard work you could do if you just had one of those Bobcats? With the new Boxer 320 Mini-Skid ($14,999), you can bring home the power of industrial-grade equipment in a domestic-friendly, workshed parkable machine. At just 34.5″ wide, the rideable skid [...]

Scientific terror

Claiming 767 horsepower and “hybrid” aren’t what you’d expect to see in the same sentence, but the Porsche 918 RSR does just that. Marrying a high winding mid-mounted V8 and two front-wheel electric motors, the Porsche can generate a monstrous 767 horsepower for 8 second bursts. Porsche has even endowed the front motors with their [...]

Revamping a 20 Year Classic

The Adidas ZX 8000 isn’t a new shoe. In fact, the style is over 20 years old. This new red and white colorway simply gives the shoe a more modern look appropriate for the streets of 2011. Outside of the bold use of red and white, details like putting the classic 3-stripes underneath a layer [...]

Black in time

When you think of the term “workshirt,” your mind conjures up images of greasy, less-than-savory, unkempt garments used for tasks in the garage or under the engine compartment of your IROC-Z Camaro with Def Leppard playing in the background. Just don’t try that with the new Heller’s Cafe by Warehouse Sturdy Oak Workshirt ($335) sold [...]

Keep the lights on

It’s time to concede: modern adventure must often rely on technology even though, in our minds, we are still “getting off the grid.” Base camps have their share of GPS devices, satellite phones, computers and lights that need heavy batteries. With one of Goal Zero’s Sherpa Adventure Kits ($359-$2,219) you can rest assured the lights [...]

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Right in the grapes

Though Grappa sounds like the name of a hirsute villainess out of a comic book, it’s actually considered Italy’s equivalent of French Cognac and Portuguese Sherry. Nonino Grappa Monovitigno Picolit Cru takes this tradition and refines it even further, distilling from a single varietal, the Picolit grape, and using its pomace (grape seeds, stalks and [...]