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The latest innovations, performance reviews, and buying guides for everything from athletic apparel and footwear to fitness trackers and sporting accessories.

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Gear
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
Gear
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
Gear
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.

By Cool Material
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Gear
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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

By Cool Material
Drinks
World’s Smallest Corkscrew

There are dozens of clever solutions to opening a bottle of beer when you have no bottle opener: the edge of a table, a lighter, and if you're desperate, your teeth.  But opening a bottle of wine is a different story--you need a corkscrew, and corkscrews don't exactly fit on…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Fashion
Suunto Core Wristop Computer

Suubto's Core Computer watch is an impressive device: altimeter accurate to fractions of a foot, compass that guides you with commands, barometer and temperature gauges, the list goes on. We're half-expecting next year's model to have random go-go gadget arms and time travel.

By Wylie Overstreet
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Audio
Etón Soulra iPod Speakers

A day at the beach is best accompanied by music, but battery-powered iPod speakers die too quickly and sound like a kazoo. So Eton decided to make the Soulra, a set that endlessly powers good speakers with a giant, spherical, thermonuclear fusion bomb. Some folks call it "The Sun", but…

By Wylie Overstreet
Eton Soulra iPod Speakers
Accessories
Stanley & Sons Bags

It always catches our eye when someone is sticking to the tradition of constructing quality products in one-off quantities. Yes, these bags by Stanley and Sons are not cheap: you'd think that by "waxed cotton cloth" they mean "waxed cotten dyed with platinum dust and washed in unicorn tears". But…

By Wylie Overstreet
Stanley Sons Bags
Food
The Sportula

For men, there is little - if anything - more important than the sacred art of preparing meat by way of fire. Your badass barbecue may be charcoal or natural gas or propane but you learned how to cook with tinder so that's less important than the rules. The woman…

By Cooper Fleishman
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