
Today in Gear: January 13, 2014
Today in Gear, we find a versatile way to scroll, an underwater modular light system, a berry good gin, cycling gloves and much more.
Today in Gear, we find a versatile way to scroll, an underwater modular light system, a berry good gin, cycling gloves and much more.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find a dashboard for your digital metrics, tough running crampons, a portable workspace and much more.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find apparel for the polar vortex, an ice shovel/brush for the polar vortex, a hot tub… for the polar vortex.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find a lithe Infiniti sedan, a foldable ski helmet, tech tools for hoop dreams and much more.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find futuristic snow shoes, minimalist coffee brewers, a plowing app, an external Mac battery pack and more.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find a chic way to groom your ‘board, building blocks for space nerds, old-school gaming on your Mac and much more.
By Nick Caruso
Today in gear, we find a wallet-friendly knife, bar soap for miners, eyewear from Venice (CA), a totes cool tote and much more.
By Nick Caruso
Octovo Limited Edition Ti Comb If your hair is thick and luxurious enough to warrant a machined titanium comb, good on ya. This handsome guy is finished with black titanium nitride and comes with a custom leather carrying case.
By Nick Caruso
Recon Instruments Snow2 HUD Used to be you tied some flat sticks to your feet and slid down a mountain, desperately avoiding trees. These days, kids — with their gadgets and gizmos and rap music — get all the thrill of skiing and then some.
By Nick Caruso
V.I.O. POV Streaming Camera Real Time Streaming Protocol: look it up.
By Nick Caruso
Mizzen+Main Cayuga Perfect Henley The Henley is comfy, warm, stylish, stands alone or layers — things could hardly get better. Hardly, that is, until you come across what is literally the Perfect Henley.
By Nick Caruso
iHealth Wireless Body Analysis Scale Using only weight to assess your overall health is like tracking mileage in your car to assess whether you need a new radiator — it’s not enough info. Thankfully, the streamlined iHealth wireless body analysis scale measures nine components such as body weight, bone mass and something called visceral fat rating (which we imagine is like this).
By Nick Caruso
Freitag Roy Shoulder Bag A lot of bags purport to be sturdy and tough, but how many can say they are made of some of the sturdiest and toughest materials around? Freitag’s bag is constructed of recycled truck tarps and car seat belts — fabrics that save lives at best and tether some serious cargo at least.
By Nick Caruso
Soma For Charity Limited Edition Filter Now that you and yours have emptied every last jug of wine and case of beer within three counties of your house (how else could you enjoy the Thanksgiving Day game and tolerate Aunt Tabitha?), it’s time to shift focus to hydration and giving; after all, ’tis the season. Soma, makers of our favorite water filter, have introduced limited edition carafes that are not only gorgeous but also altruistic.
By Nick Caruso
Tanner Goods Deerskin Driver Gloves Is it irony to fashion a glove from the hide of an animal with hooves, or just more of a taunt? Regardless, these soft and sumptuous gloves are a gift for your fingers but also provide just enough grip on the wheel for those perfect parking lot donuts.
By Nick Caruso
Pacer App Maybe you don’t go to the gym because you’re afraid you’ll have an inefficient workout. Maybe you’re so concerned about timing your workout that you can’t even bear to leave the couch.
By Nick Caruso
LifeStraw Go This thing quite literally saves lives. Dispersed to victims of massive humanitarian disasters over the last 8 years, LifeStraw products have provided extremely unfortunate people one simple necessity: clean drinking water.
By Nick Caruso
Paul Evans Shoes Many brands have proven that the Internet-based, direct-to-consumer market is a thriving place, popular because it provides consumers with high end products that aren’t marked up to cover brick-and-mortar store costs. Paul Evans believes that type of consumer should be literally well-heeled while saving a few bucks on what would normally be a very expensive endeavor.
By Nick Caruso
Rocksmith 2014 How much better would you be at math had you learned your times tables while playing Zelda? Okay, maybe not the best analogy, but a similar principle is at play with Rocksmith 2014.
By Nick Caruso
The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook Danny Meyer’s award-winning NYC restaurant is known for its convivial atmosphere and, naturally, its excellent food. But we can think of another convivial place — can you guess?
By Nick Caruso