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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
Ford Bronco San Francisco

There's just something about a classic Ford Bronco that makes all your cares melt away as soon as you approach it an hop inside. Classic Ford Broncos out of Ohio is taking that quite a few steps further with their Restomod Coyote Broncos by keeping everything that's awesome and ditching…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
The Albert Clock Makes You Calculate the Time

Learning to tell the time is one of the first important life skills any of us tackles, but the Albert Clock makes the tried and true hands method pointless because it forces you to calculate the time. It's a digital clock that mounts easily to the wall, but actually telling…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Samsung’s New Frame TV Blends into Any Art Gallery

Samsung's newest line of televisions is focusing primarily on design, and no where is this better seen than with The Frame. It's a Samsung TV when on, but switches to a high-res picture frame when "Art Mode" is selected. In Art Mode, the user can choose between 100 images in…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Home
This Autonomous House Is Zombie Proof

Ukrainian startup PassivDom (Passive House Ukraine) has developed a line of autonomous, self-learning, mobile houses using 3D-printing techniques and advanced materials. Dubbed modulOne, each of the autonomous houses is designed and built to be fully functional off grid with solar panels, batteries, heating, water storage, purification and independent sewage. Whether…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Features
Forget Corned Beef and Cabbage; Eat This on St. Patrick’s Day

Without fail, St. Patrick’s Day brings dozens of Debbie Downers out of the woodwork to tell you all about how corned beef and cabbage isn’t traditionally Irish and it’s inaccurate to have as dinner’s centerpiece. And while our title can certainly be interpreted that way, we’d like to aim this…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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