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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
By Beau Hayhoe
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game 12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game
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12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game

From Tiger Woods’ surprisingly beatable low round to the golf course sitting 15,000+ feet above sea level.

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Good luck spotting Nike's best releases this week. They're all camo.

By Cool Material
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Swear Jar

Maybe you just had kids. Maybe you’re trying to give up four-letter words for Lent. Maybe you just want to weed out a few words from your vocabulary for good. Whatever the reason, a Swear Jar has long been a way to help squash your questionable French. Now, instead of…

By Mike Newman
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Memobottle H2.0 Slim Water Bottles

Memobottle made waves a few years ago with their aptly named bottles that came in popular paper sizes with a squared off profile that made them the perfect water bottles for bags, briefcases and backpacks. After preventing over 1.9 million single-use bottles of water from being consumed and providing clean drinking water for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The CasusGrill Is a Completely Biodegradable Grill

Winner of the 2017 Danish Design Award in the "FEEL GOOD" category, the CasusGrill is completely biodegradable. Unlike other "disposable grills" on the market that are still built with pieces that can take centuries to properly decompose, the CasusGrill uses a combination of mother nature-friendly materials liks FSC-certified cardboard, untreated bamboo,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The 8 Best Headphone Stands You Can Buy Right Now

At some point, all of us have to trade in the earbuds we use for podcasts and commuting music for a serious pair of cans that let everyone around us—even if it's only the significant other—know that we're working and don't wan't to be disturbed. But what do you do…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Life-Saving Apollo Penlight is Being Revived on Kickstarter

Usually, military and government products end up being sold on the civilian market in one way or another. This never happened with the Apollo penlight. There were only roughly 2000 made, so they never hit numbers that would have allowed them to make a profit or to hit military surplus…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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