Gear Patrol

One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday is roll out of bed at 5:30 a.m., grab a camera and my jacket and drive 48 miles from LA to a business park in Irvine. There, on any given Saturday, hundreds of cars worth millions of dollars gather for Cars and Coffee, a special event where two common denominators create a mood of friendship, relaxation and shared passion.

Like you, we’ve watched the brain-eating zombie apocalypse theme get played out — zombie movies, zombie television programs, zombie costumes, books about zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is only slightly less tiresome than Austen’s original). However, Wish brings a fresh take on the meme with the Zombie Mall Experience, thrusting you from mindless observer…

5:30 AM, Los Angeles | Waking up at the crack of dawn for school is hardly an ideal way to start the day. Unless, of course, you’re getting up early to attend rally driving school for a crash course in four-wheeled mayhem. Over the course of our day we partook in rapid-fire lessons on the…

In recent years, stalwart denim purveyor Levi’s has expanded into beyond their blue-collar roots offering not only fashion forward goods suited for coal miners but for agency ladder climbers, as well. The brand’s social accessibility and blend of fashion/practicality have led to the Levi’s Workshop — a pop-up style event that offers exposure, equipment, training…

This past Saturday, one of our favorite type foundries House Industries was in town displaying some of their latest creations. As a self-admitted typography nut, I have collected several of their stunning fonts over the past few years. It didn’t take much more than an email to make sure their display at Partners & Spade…

Fashion week is in full swing here in New York. Besides drastically improving the ratio of tall beautiful women walking the streets, it also means a lot of long nights and days for our staff as we check out what’s to come from major men’s brands. First up on our list of events, Billy Reid’s…

In college, my Dutch finance professor once postulated, “Why is drinking American beer akin to making love on a canoe?” His response: “Because it’s fuc%@g near water”. Bull. Like water no more, American beer has gone the distance. It goes without saying that the revival of craft brewers is in full force and these titans…

Paintball fans looking to take the experience to the next level should consider hopping the pond and heading to Souhfields Farm at Leicestershire in the UK. There you’ll find a one of kind warfare simulation experience known puntastically as Armourgeddon. If the name didn’t give it away, this facility teaches visitors how to operate real…

Yesterday in the midst of Windows 7 Launch craziness, the New York based Gear Patrol staff took some time away from the gear-review mayhem to go see Engadget editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky grill Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on everything from the new Window 7’s improvement over it’s dismal predecessor Vista, to Ballmer’s knowledge of the elusive…

As we hinted earlier through Twitter, Gear Patrol got the invite to check out the 2009 Gizmodo Gallery this evening before the general public’s admission, which starts tomorrow (or, about the time you’re reading this). Considering some of the highlights in the gallery such as the Chefstack automatic pancake maker, a return of the 103…

Several weeks ago, Gear Patrol had the opportunity to check out the venerable gear outfitter, EMS. Now known for fully as Eastern Mountain Sports (ems.com), we went hands-on at their new flagship store here in New York’s SoHo. Better yet, we had the place virtually all to ourselves. It goes without saying that there are…