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We have a winner! Actually, three of them.

Well men, another Gear Patrol Giveaway is in the books. Many thanks to our friends at HISTORY and A&E for providing the loot, and kudos to all who participated. The largest congratulations go to our three winners, of course. For their diligent efforts, Frank P. of North Hollywood, Jake O. in Denver, and Jeff S. [...]

Mobile. Email. That is all.

I am a creature of habit, to be sure. Of late, you might have noticed me lauding various products that do just what they are designed to do (well). Blame it on my stage in life or even on the floundering economy, but simplicity and functionality have become highly respectable traits to me. The latest [...]

Win One of Three DVD Collections

When the folks at HISTORY and A&E asked us to share with you some of their latest DVD releases, we were keen to oblige. In true Gear Patrol fashion, we figured that our readers would be best served if we took their request literally. It is in that spirit that we bring you just the [...]

Update: Future Sonics has provided Gear Patrol Readers a special 20% Coupon Code Below Since the advent of the digital music age (read: birth of the iPod), earphone options for delivering sound directly to your brain have multiplied like caged rabbits. In a market as flooded as this one, choosing the right product for you [...]

It belongs in your ManPocket.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve held up pending group shots whilst searching for a stable surface on which to perch my camera. Enter a simple, elegant solution to my problem created by Manfrotto (Italian makers of professional photography staging equipment, not denizens of Middle Earth). It’s called the Modopocket and, quite simply, [...]

The following is true: a man does not need a reason to pine for a beautiful new TV. In fact, he doesn’t even need much of an excuse to treat himself to one. Sure these are challenging economic times, but save up your pennies and make an investment in your own well being by way [...]

Of all that Bacon Salt is and represents, it is, first and foremost, an All-American success story. The abridged version goes something like this: Two men, Justin and Dave, are out for a drink, when they begin to wax poetic on their mutual affection for bacon. Naturally, they wish that everything could, in fact, taste [...]

I have a raging passion for coffee.  Morning, noon, or night, it matters not; I’ll gladly down a cup of joe.  Unfortunately, the rest of my family does not share in my frequent cravings.  My wife simply won’t touch the stuff (she’s hopelessly devoted to tea), and, for some unknown reason, neither of my infant [...]

See our Letter From The Editor Welcome (back) to Gear Patrol. In response to the ravenous clamoring of our loyal patrons, Gear Patrol’s own transition team has toiled tirelessly to offer you a web resource unlike any other. The new Gear Patrol is a site for men, by men – and a damn good one [...]

A Gear Patrol favorite, CoD:WW Wages A Blitzkrieg On Our Free Time Here at Gear Patrol, we are eminently qualified to opine on the best in men’s entertainment. Why so, you may ask? Primarily, it’s because we, ourselves, are men. We can empathize with the struggle to prioritize sensory assaults among thought-provoking reading, the latest [...]

Sir Paul In Stunning Hi-Def Fans of the Beatles, the ex-Beatles, or just plain good music will thrill and possibly even trill to the Blu-ray release of Paul McCartney’s 2005 US tour concert retrospective, Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us on high definition Blu-Ray disc. This concertourmentery expertly weaves a number of prominent celebrity interviews [...]

How Are You Supposed To Keep Your Head Still At 20,000 RPM? I’m an avid golfer with a dirty little secret. I hate practice. Unfortunately, this puts me at a philosophical impasse with my game. After all, not everyone has the discipline of GP’s managing editor, a stalwart range-rat capable of spending all day banging [...]

Better than regular missions…these are dangerous ones. When it comes to creating edutaining programs, HISTORY does it best. In fact, it’s a safe bet that anytime you fix your eyes on a HISTORY documentary, you are likely to receive a marked boost in both your trivia skills and your testosterone. In that regard, the newly [...]

Now You Know… And Knowing Is Half The Battle Being the savvy, well-educated Gear Patrol technophile that you are, you’ve certainly noticed that one of the most consistent wallet wasting trends of recent months has been the steady increase in energy costs across virtually all geographies and power utilities. Whereas this lowly commentator prefers to [...]

No Device Left Un-Oranged Gear Patrol Custom ColorWare Xbox 360 I hope that I’m not being too presumptuous, but it’s likely that you, the Gear Patrol reader, take some measure of pride in having the latest and greatest bits of consumer technology. It goes without saying that we do, too. After all, why do you [...]