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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
Transportation
BMW e-Scooter

Scooters are clearly not just for kids, and the electric scooter might just be the wave of urban transportation no one saw coming. BMW wants in on that very electric scooter game, and they’ve just collaborated with Micro to create the e-Scooter, a lightweight version that gets up to 7.5-miles…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
BMW Garmisch

If this recreation of a long gone BMW concept car doesn’t go down in the pantheon of rare automobiles, we’re not sure what else qualifies. The original BMW Garmisch was created by famed Lambo Miura designer Marcello Gandini, and it debuted at the 1970 Geneva Motor Show then disappeared from…

By Amos Kwon
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Tech
Roads by Porsche App

If there’s one brand that has focused primarily on the driving experience, and consistently so, it’s Porsche. Hell, you can still get a manual transmission in the exclusive 2019 911 Speedster, if that’s any indication, and the brand even churns out SUVs like the Macan Turbo that can outdo most…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
The Honda e EV Has Over 25,000 Reservations

It’s too bad no one’s come up with an EV that melds the future with the past particularly well, until now, that is. What originally debuted as the Honda Urban EV Concept at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show has been officially named the shorter and more memorable Honda e. The…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
The Quadrant House Has a Moving Room

Okay, so the Quadrant House may not qualify as a Transformer, but it’s probably as close as you’ll get. Architect Robert Konieczny was inspired by an astronaut’s quadrant tool used to map out stars and used that as the basis for the fully automated moving room of this Polish home.…

By Amos Kwon
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