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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
IKEA e-Sports Furniture Collection

While the Swedish furniture and housewares titan will continue to make incredibly frustrating DIY-assembly pieces, they've now moved into an area we can totally get behind: gaming furniture. Yes, IKEA just released its first line of e-sports furniture that will help you get your gaming on. There are four sets…

By Amos Kwon
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Whale-Shaped Australian Underwater Discovery Centre

You don't have to pull a Jonah to get in the belly of a whale. Okay, so this one's not alive, and it probably doesn't smell like rotting krill inside. London Architecture firm Baca Architects designed the Australian Underwater Discovery Centre to be fun and also pay homage to the…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Flat Six Classics Custom 2004 Porsche Cayenne Turbo

When it it comes to Porsche restoration, customization and special project builds, you won't find many shops doing it better than Vancouver, British Columbia-based Flat Six Classics. Flat Six Classics is a full-service shop that specializes in ground-up transformations of old school Porsches into all around different vehicles. Case in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
Hyundai TIGER X-1 Unmanned Walking Car Concept

Remember the Hyundai Elevate Concept unveiled a couple years ago that was capable of walking and climbing stairs? Hyundai is doubling down on the engineering behind that concept in a big with their latest concept, TIGER X-1. TIGER X-1, which stands for Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot and X-1 for…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
BMW S1000RR ‘Phantom’

Looking more like a wheeled Gundam robot than a motorcycle, Mehmet Doruk Erdem’s BMW S1000RR 'Phantom' is a sight to behold. Sure, it's just a rendering, but it looks like it could take to urban roadways right now. His menacing creation uses a BMW S1000RR superbike as the base, seriously…

By Amos Kwon
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