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Sorry, Santa.

You’re a considerate person. You enjoy that feeling of giving someone a gift and having them light up with thankfulness. You also know gift cards are about as personal as a Monday morning TSA Agent. The only problem is finding and buying gifts is an unnecessarily painful process — especially when you barely have time [...]

Make the world your speed bump

The Local Motors Rally Fighter is literally the Frankenstein of the car world and looks like the love child of the Dark Knight’s tumbler and a Maserati Gran Turismo. If its arresting form seems strangely familiar to you, it’s probably because of the crowd-sourced origins of the Rally Fighter’s design, which utilizes a hodgepodge of [...]

Tired of watching men take on impossibly tall jumps in wingsuits? Neither are we. Just a segment of director Sébastien Montaz-Rosset’s dazzling 40 minute documentary, this clip gives a glimpse into French highlining pioneers Tancrede and Julien — two friends with a passion for controlled elevated insanity — take on the stratospheric cliffs of the [...]

Tool trick

Milled from solid titanium, the innocuous Barbar ($75) may look like some type of industrial throwing star, but those shapes and edges hide three tools: a bottle opener, prybar, and 1/4″ bit wrench. Avaiable in four colors, it also serves as a handy keychain or a perfect companion to its carabiner cousin. If you prefer [...]

Kicked by a Rose

We’ve spent a solid month with Derrick Rose’s signature shoe, the adiZero Rose 2 ($110). Actually, not just us but the also the best player we could find at our local court (thanks, Divine). With heaps of brisk afternoons full of asphalt carnage and battered egos, we’ve finally got our answers. It’s no secret that [...]

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Carried Away

Our friends over at Acquire brought this eye-catching “friendly union” between the Brixton clothing brand and legendary guitar maker fender to our attention. The vintage-inspired record ($89) and guitar case ($200) should strike a chord with any musician who remembers the days when changing the track meant moving the needle and computers lived in a [...]

Powder Power

Does your hate for shoveling snow equal your disdain for poor fuel economy? Then Honda’s first-ever Hybrid Snow Blower ($8,000) was designed for you. It’s gas-powered four-stroke iGX390 engine provides enough spinning auger and blower power to discharge 83 tons per hour at distances of up to 62 feet (bombs away!). The fossil fuel burner [...]

Time check. The first Lord of the Rings movie is now 10 years old. Luckily, if you’ve been in middle-earth withdrawal since the last film appeared in 2003, Peter Jackson has decided to don his Tolkien hat once to again to bring The Hobbit to the silver screen — in 3D. Through this behind the [...]

You wouldn’t catch us complaining about socks for christmas if this unique box set was left under the tree. Packed with all five pairs of the boutique sock brand’s eye-catching patterns, they’re all guaranteed to add some pimp to your step. $54 | alfredogonzales.com

It's in the bag

When you prefer carving lines beyond the boundaries of safety, you’re all too aware of the risks involved with avalanches. Float Backpacks ($685-$785) from Backcountry Access are designed to minimize excavation time — which is the biggest factor in avalanche fatalities — through an affordable and reusable avalanche airbag system. Here’s how it works. In [...]

Spin in Black

The Puma Blackout Table Tennis Table by design firm Aruliden seeks to elevates the cult rec room sport to a higher plane — specifically, the Penthouse level — thanks to its angular black ash wood legs, clean matte-black finish, and steel mesh net. No matter how killer your serve is though, do try and avoid [...]

Chef by a thousand cuts

Got my eye on you

It may look like another plastic iPhone dock, but the Swivl ($160) is anything but. Pairing a motorized base and wearable marker the Swivl can pivot, turn and tilt a cradled iOS device to follow a subject — keeping subjects within its field of view — using motion tracking technology. That means, video chats, sports, [...]

Fly by design

The airplane stands in the pantheon of man’s most amazing engineering feats. So it seems fitting that the folks at Plane Pieces Inc. have developed a knack for recycling classic plane parts into stunning accents for the home. Thanks to relationships with prop manufacturers, repair shops, and designers — they collect and polish vintage parts [...]