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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
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
Lifestyle
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
Home
Tiny Arcade Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

Tiny Arcade, produced by open source hardware company TinyCircuits out of Ohio, is producing retro arcade cabinets that are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Powered by a 32-bit ARM processor and housed in an acrylic, wood or 3D-printed enclosure, Tiny Arcade lets you play games…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Late, Boozy Nights in Paris with Rémy Martin

If there's one thing I've learned in life, it's this: When a dude sends you an email at 9:00 on a Wednesday morning asking if you'd like to go to Paris (and they aren't a Nigerian prince trying to wire you money), you take it—no questions asked. The crew at…

By Maxwell Barna
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Food
Levitating Cup

Go find all your coasters and throw them in the trash. It's time to drink your whiskey like a goddamn sorcerer. Available as either a wired version or a wireless version, the Levitating CUP uses a series of magnets and an electrical field to make your glass of scotch hover in…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
The Complete Guide to Printing Professional Quality Photos at Home

In this day and age, photography is more accessible than ever before. The folks at Apple brag about their phone’s ability to take billboard quality photos in a package that fits inside your pants’ pocket. Canon recently came out with a consumer-grade DSLR with a sensor that boasts 50 megapixels,…

By Maxwell Barna
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Craftsman Pro Series Toolboxes Have Smartphone Locks

Craftsman is one of the go-to names in tools for plenty of reasons, and their toolboxes are just as good. The latest Pro Series toolboxes improve upon everything that makes them great places to store everything from tools and notebooks to pens and projects with the addition of connected Bluetooth…

By Cooper Fleishman
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