Gear Patrol | Spirit of Adventure, Passion for Gear

Wii for U, and U for Wii

Nintendo has just announced the successor to its wildly popular and family friendly Wii system today at E3 — called the Wii U. If the name didn’t clue you in, essentially Nintendo hopes they’ve built a console gaming experience that’s highly entertaining for the entire family and individual gamers. To pull this off, the new [...]

Made from Concentrate

If you’re willing to adventure a little off grilling main street you’ll find there are some great American-made options like the Minden Master Grill ($479). Designed with a more realistic and urban-friendly compact form factor, the Minden is an ideal fit for households not yet ready to sell their first born child for a barnyard [...]

The Future Forecast Is Decidedly Cloudy

The speculation started long before today, but now the folks in Cupertino have officially released iCloud, a new service designed to help consumers effortlessly store and access digital assets in Apple’s freshly-minted data centers. iCloud is free to all, and will launch in full with iOS 5 this fall — presumably to coincide with a [...]

Fish or cut board

Fishing and paddle boards. A marriage made in Florida. The creation of PE Corey Cooper, the Bote Sup Skiff ($1,399) used advanced engineering and modeling software to create one truly unique vessel. Intersecting a stand-up paddle board with the versatility needed for fishing, the Bote begins life as a 12′ Bote. Cooper then adds a [...]

What You & Your iPod, iPhone, and iPad Need to Know

IPhone, iPad, and iPod touch owners will receive a ton of new features in iOS 5. The bad news is that the latest and greatest mobile operating system won’t be available until fall of this year for consumers. On the up side, we’ve made getting a knowledgeable head start on what’s to come super easy. [...]

It's All in the Pix

You all know the lines, scenes and what Shooter eats for breakfast, but for more than a decade, anyone hoping for a rage-fueled trip through the PGA circa 1996 has had to put up with standard def. The wait is over starting tomorrow. Yup, Adam Sandler’s instant-classic Happy Gilmore ($20) has finally received a 1080p [...]

Whatever your feelings on Michael Bay’s films, there’s no denying the man lives and breathes epic. Case in point. While watching 60 Minutes, Bay caught a glimpse of Precision Skydivers doing aerial stunts, called producer Steven Spielberg and said “I gotta have wingsuits in Transformers 3″. Talk about conversation starters. And just in case you [...]

Easy Button

Unless your endowed with triple jointed thumbs, taking photos with your iPhone can be mighty cumbersome if not downright painful. The Kickstarter project, Red Pop, aims to fix that with a simple, well-designed solution: bringing the shutter button back to its rightful finger (your index) and location. Simply plug-in the adaptor, which also serves as [...]

Dress for the best, and worst.

The Exuvius Titanium Multi Tool Collar Stay ($30) is the type of product we’d imagine James Bond and Macgyver dreaming up over a few brews. Their familiar collar-stay shape has been augmented to help handy dandies open bottles, loosen screws, or cut pesky stray threads in a pinch. Naturally, their solid titanium construction is also [...]

Adventure Pants

Activities in the wild sometimes call for shorts (high temps, fly fishing, river fording) and other times for a pair of pants (cooler nights, mosquitoes, bushwhacking). What’s a man to do if he wants to pack light? If he were sporting a pair of Mountain Khakis Granite Creek Convertible Pants ($80) then the only question [...]

Happy Feet

The iMac’s sleek stand has one fundamental flaw. Its base lacks feet, which means the chiseled edges mar wood finishes faster than Apple can release new versions. Hard Graft, who we imagine saw the problem first hand, has a solution: the iMac Slipper ($42). Simply slide on the sheath, made of German felt and Italian [...]

Dashing while dashing

Inspired by classic European cycling jerseys, Road Holland has revealed the new, US made, limited edition Den Haag Cycling Jersey ($120). The jersey offers classic looks with modern accoutrement like a breathable soft Merino wool/polyester blend with long-lasting moisture wicking properties, three large rear cargo pockets and a waist gripper. Offered in 7, distinctively GP-esque [...]

Friday perusing. Spending more than one month hopping from Manhattan hotel to hotel shooting time lapses Josh Owens used four Canon DSLR’s to capture this incredible 3 and a half minute video culled from hours of footage. Viewfinder is a series of captivating photos and videos taken by GP, culled from the web, dug from [...]

Audiophile turntable, Best Buy price

When it comes to spinning vinyl, there are a lot of choices under $500, but not all of them are awesome, especially if you care about the way your turntable looks as much as the way it plays. Whether you’re a vinyl junkie or making a foray into the great you’d be hard-pressed to find [...]

For Whom the Tea Tolls

Okay, we’ll admit it. We don’t drink a lot of tea around GP HQ, but if we, or our British doppelgängers, were in the mood for a nice hot ‘cuppa’ we would most certainly make it Mentor Tea ($10+). With two all-natural variants befitting a man’s life, a Next Morning Blend (black) and After Hours [...]