Biom Playa
Riding on the heels of success of the Golf Street Premier, Ecco recently introduced their new line of golf shoes, the Ecco BIOM Golf Shoe ($225) featuring technology based on their natural motion philosophy, which centers around natural body movement. The result is a low-profile shoe with support where you need it and a welcome [...]
Because weekends don't carry themselves
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Keep Your Doritos Fingers Away
The Acer Iconia-6120 14-Inch Dual-Screen Touchbook ($1,200) is the latest iteration of a budding computing form factor that wants to walk the line between tablets and laptops. Unlike the petite Toshiba Libretto W100, this king of the Iconia series sports two 14-inch Gorilla Glass touch panels that provide plenty of real estate for all manner [...]
Feeling Peckish
MacArthur, The Omen, Roman Holiday, Spellbound, and To Kill a Mocking Bird. Those are just a few of the genre-defining films Gregory Peck starred in during his career as a leading Hollywood man. His role in the latter was even named as the “Greatest Hero in Movie History” by the American Film Institute — eat [...]
Light, but not on functionality
Weighing just 2.9 oz, the WREX Titanium Pocket Adjustable Wrench ($179) offers robust multitool capabilities in a lithe package. Machined from high-grade titanium, the WREX’s svelte 0.25″ width body packs a trigger-lock adjustable wrench, titanium coated blade, wire stripping hole, hex bit driver, double-ended driver bit, and bottle opener. A perfect addition to your everyday [...]
Shots for a Century
Bone up on your photog knowledge with this beautiful coffee table book from one of our favorite publishers, Taschen. Released this April, Photographers A-Z ($42) is filled with 400+ entries on the most influential shutterbugs of the last 100 years including monograph’s from Ansel Adams, Bill Brandy, Irving Penn and Andy Warhol to name a [...]
Recipe for the perfect shot: a dash of right location, a pinch of timing, a dollop of the right gear and a heaping pile of luck. Rudi Diesel captures a stunning shot of surfer Dylan Longbottom riding a 12-foot barrel wave at 500fps. The clip, used in BBC’s documentary South Pacific (which we recently added [...]
Save Your Prayers For More Important Matters
The hangover prevention business must be booming. After receiving such a positive response for our coverage of Last Round Hangover Support a couple of weeks back, we’ve now come across Mercy. Created by folks with long histories in the nightlife world, canonical branding apparently isn’t the drink’s only well conceived feature. Instead science is pushed [...]
Time Flies
Of the classic tool watches genres, the pilot’s watch rivals the dive watch in popularity. And for good reason. The classic pilot’s oversized case dimensions fit modern tastes, the dial is clean and legible and it emanates a sort of masculine je ne sais quois that is reminiscent of more adventurous times, when brave men [...]
A Taste of What That Other 71% Looks Like
The fact that we’ll never be able to check in with Foursquare on any point on this map, or post “I’ve been there” on Facebook, doesn’t detract at all from this accurate illustration of the ocean floor in our book. In fact, that’s half the reason we love it. Sure, it lacks the technical wizardry [...]
Hat tip for this installment of Viewfinder goes to the sharp eyes at Co.Design who uncovered a practically pornographic look at how the fabled Eames Lounge Chair is made, by hand. Admittedly, the chair has become, at time, cliche and a modern design-snobbery status symbol, but as a stand-alone product it’s still an icon no [...]
A Long Way from a Hollowed Out Log
Synthetics and composites have plenty of benefits, but they’ll never compete with the look of wood. This Cedar Strip Wooden Kayak from Justin Charles ($16,000) manages to provide the best of both worlds. Its beautiful Western Red Cedar strip exterior is combined with glass fiber to create a light weight, yet durable composite that puts [...]
A man is what he carries
Editor’s Note: We’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about our EDC (everyday carry for the uninitiated); in large part because of one of our favorite Tumblers, EDC. If you’ve never been, head there if you want to kill an hour or two. While we already have our daily rigs sorted out reasonably well [...]
Handle Sticky Situations
Just as Zeus produced Ares, Hercules, and Hermes, so hath the original Duct Tape spawned Scotch’s new Tough Duct Tape line. The new branding is about as redundant as it gets, but Scotch clearly wanted to reassure loyalists that the latest heirs in the Duct Tape family were every bit as useful as their take-on-all-projects [...]
Xacting
Kitchen scales aren’t critical for all cooks, but they come in handy for those who prefer to count salt grains pre-spinkle. The Caso X3 kitchen scale ($45) takes an interesting design approach to the typically boring product category. As a scale, it can weigh up to 6.6 pounds in 0.03 oz increments — meaning it’s [...]
