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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
The Hyundai Kite Converts Into a Jet-Ski

Hyundai has once again teamed up with a group of students from Turin's renowned Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) to create a concept vehicle as part of a thesis program in transportation design. The recently unveiled Hyundai Kite is a doorless, roofless and windowless vehicle that most closely resembles a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The Bandit9 L-Concept Is Inspired by Star Wars

Bandit9 makes some of the most unique motorcycles in existence, something that's only demonstrated further by the L-Concept. Billed as a "sci-fi masterpiece," the L-Concept sports a unibody tank, suspended engine, and maneuver controls that make you feel like you're piloting a speeder bike on Endor. As you can see,…

By Mike Newman
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The Sobro Smart Side Table Has a Fridge, Speaker, and Charging Pad Built In

A year ago, we shared with you a coffee table outfitted with a refrigerated drawer that kept drinks cold. It was one of our most popular posts of 2017. StoreBound, the maker of said coffee table, is back with the Sobro Smart Side Table—and it's equally impressive. Packed inside the…

By Mike Newman
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Transportation
You Can Preorder a Flying Car

It just wouldn’t be the Geneva Motor Show without the unveiling of at least one flying car. This year, the flying car everyone’s focusing on is the final production sample of the PAL-V Liberty, the “world’s first certified commercial flying car.” As you might imagine, the combination of car and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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CB2 Black Square Trunk

We're not going to try and act like CB2, Crate and Barrel's younger, more affordable line, reinvented the wheel or anything here. This is a box. You put stuff in it. With that out of the way, it's a really nice box that'd we'd really like to put stuff in.…

By Mike Newman
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