Good morning, and welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Gear — your single-shot serving of an entire week’s worth of the best new gear pulled from our weekday editions of Today in Gear. Bookmark it to peruse over a cup of coffee or before you soak up the last of your weekend freedom, then start your Monday completely up to speed. Here’s to another fantastic week.
Monday, April 9th
HP’s New Chromebook Is an iPad Pro Rival (It’s Also Way Cheaper)
It’s also the first Chromebook with a fully detachable keyboard.
This Carafe Solves Our Biggest Beef With Pour-Over Coffee
Hario knows the pain of going through the extra steps to make pour-over coffee only for it to need microwaving 10 minutes into drinking it. So, they made a carafe to fix it.
What Goodyear Has Learned on the Racetrack, It’s Taking to the Bicycle
Despite Goodyear’s reputation as an innovator in the automobile industry and the official tire of NASCAR, its first product wasn’t a car tire, it was a bike tire. Now, after 120 years of experience, Goodyear…
Coffee Is 99% Water — This $25 Jug Makes Your Tap Water Cafe Quality
Professional baristas have multi-thousand dollar machines that ensure the quality of the water they use in your commute coffee — this filtration jug aims to accomplish the same for you at home for all of…
This German-Engineered Machine Sears Steak Better than Any Grill or Skillet
In searing, heat and heat control is everything. The all-new beefer reaches temperatures nearly double its gas grill competition, and well above charcoal grills or cast-iron skillets, too.
The 2019 Audi A6 Wagon is Cruel and Unusual Punishment for America
Get a good look at the 2019 Audi A6 Avant above, because, despite the resurgence of wagon offerings from nearly every other luxury car maker, Audi is not sending the A6 wagon to our shores.
Airstream Introduces the Nest, Its First Non-Aluminum Trailer Since the 1950s
The 16-foot fiberglass trailer smartly packs a dinette, wet bath, galley and bed into the interior, and still manages to weigh in at about 3,400 lbs, making it an easy tow for midsize SUVs.
This Everyday Glassware Is Made of Old Smartphone Screens
This British-German design studio literally makes treasure from trash, and just took full advantage for the smartphone you and everyone you know trashes every year-and-a-half.