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This boxy dopp kit from Weston Gear is made from X-Pac, a high-strength textile that’s waterproof and ultralight. It’s available in various sizes, ranging from 7″ x 2.5″ x 2″ to 9″ x 6″ x 4″ – in a wide variety of colors. The small sizes are good for daily essentials like toiletries or tech […]
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Jon Heder stars in this quirky indie film that seems like the spiritual successor to Napoleon Dynamite. Heder stars as an oddball who decides his new calling in life is as the protector of a teenage outsider, and ends up taking on the town’s resident bullies. After making the rounds on the festival circuit last […]
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This versatile camping utensil combines a fork, spoon, and serrated knife in one. Made of titanium, it lets you carry three tools in the space of one in your pack while weighing just 42 grams. And when it comes to packing, less weight is always better.
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Where does he get all those wonderful toys? In the case of Jake Laser, he builds his own. After playing with a wing foiling wing, he got to work building an inflatable wingsuit that deploys like Batman’s glider. It was a major engineering feat to create the expandable glider. But first, Jake had to learn […]
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The Commodore 64 Ultimate is no cheap emulator. It’s a fully-functional 8-bit computer on modern FPGA hardware with more RAM, faster processing, and an HDMI output. It plays more than 10,000 original games on cartridge, datasette, or floppy disk, as well as USB drives. It’s coming in a BASIC Beige, colorful Starlight Edition, and a […]
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Inspired by the S-curve of a whip snake, Craighill’s Coachwhip Carabiner is a welcome upgrade to classic key clip. It’s CNC-milled from stainless steel with dual spring gates for secure attachment, and its tapered frame lets you add and remove keys without an annoying split ring. Comes in stainless, PVD black, or brass-coated finishes.
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This slim, backlit keyboard expands your digital workspace by adding a 12.8″ touchscreen. Perfect for displaying timelines, settings panels, or desktop widgets, it has a 1920×720 resolution, and supports 10-finger touch input. The KeyGo Slim folds for easy carrying, and has an aluminum chassis. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android devices.
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Builder Mike Shake created an extremely powerful slingshot that fires large steel balls. Its mechanism uses a winch system to pull elastic bands taut before firing. After finishing version one, Mike made a few upgrades and put his deadly slingshot to the test against a watermelon, soda bottles, and a goo-filled skull. This thing sounds […]
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Civil engineer Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering brings us a 264-page field guide to the human-made world. Packed with colorful illustrations, the book makes infrastructure like bridges, roads, and power grids easy to understand for non-engineers. It’s a perfect road trip read that turns everyday surroundings into something fascinating.
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If there’s one thing we know that ants love, it’s sugar. In this video from Photo Owl Time-Lapse, they demonstrat just how efficient ants are at devouring sugar and other ingredients by feeding them a Raffaello – a coconut truffle filled with cream and blanched almonds. It’s fascinating to see them walk off with bits […]
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