Callaway X-Tour Irons
It’s one of the most talked-about debuts on tour this season. The new X-Tour Irons are now in the bags of players like Phil Mickelson, Annika Sorenstam and Charles Howell III.Forged 1020 Carbon Steel Body: The X-Tour’s advanced two-piece design features a forged 1020 carbon steel body, with a forged 1020 carbon steel face welded in 360 degree undercut channel, which enlarges the sweet spot and provides perimeter weighting previously unavailable on a performance iron.
Tumi T3 Ducati Carry-On Duffel
The Tumi+Ducati Collection is an award winning line from Tumi that rocks out high-performance Ducati inspired design sculpted in Tumi’s exclusive, abrasion- and stain-resistant Hybrix fabric. The T3 Carry-On Duffel has easy-to-pack duffel styling in a convenient carry-on size.
Garmin Nuvi 680
Receive door-to-door directions while staying on top of local weather, traffic and more with nuvi 680, a sleek multi-tasking Personal Travel Assistant. Features a colorful widescreen, hands-free calling and FM transmitter, than takes it up a notch by adding dynamic content from MSN Direct.
Vera Wang™ Truly Pink – 24 Roses with Truly Pink Fragrance
[Mother’s Day Gift Idea] Give the ultimate expression of love with this Vera Wang™ Truly Pink floral and fragrance gift set. Selected by world-renowned designer Vera Wang, these truly pink roses beautifully complement the designer’s new limited-edition fragrance, Vera Wang™ Truly Pink.
ROM – The 4-Minute CrossTrainer©
Manufactured in California since 1990, the ROM is more a leap of faith into the studied design and manufacturing process of their engineering team. Their guarantee of a 4 minute no impact cardio, resistance and flexibility workout that’s as good as any longer workout seems far stretched.
HUD GPS Speed Meter
The GlobalTop Technology’s heads up display keeps your eyes on the road. It projects the current speed and heading of the car onto the windshield.
120GB V2 FPR Fingerprint Hard Drive
Nowadays there’s no limit to how well you can protect your identity and data. DataMore makes it simple for you to just that.
Gear Patrol Salute – Independence Day
Whether you spend the day watching Transformers, grilling steaks to delicious perfection or just kicking it back with a beer in one hand and a gorgeous companion in the other it’s important to realize that 231 years ago this country liberated itself from the throes of colonization. It’s also to important to know that those colonies would later go on to be states and eventually form the United States of America; spreading our brands, fast food, painfully gorgeous women, and much envied lifestyle across the world.
Grand Theft Auto IV – Special Edition
Prepare for mayhem. Prepare for carnage.
Jack Spade Monza Flat Wallet
In the heat of the summer the last thing you want is a bulging wallet weighing you down. As a matter of fact, this should be a year round notion.
Trion:Z Dual Loop Magnetic/Ion Bracelets
Ions. You’ve heard of them for some time and you’ve wondered what exactly they do.
Inflight Power iPod/iPhone Charger
Before you chock this one off to just another iPod charger keep reading. It’s not, at least not in how it works.
Ironman Segmental Body Monitor
Your training shouldn’t go unmonitored, especially if you’re looking for accurate rehabilitation or focused workouts. The BC558 Segmental Body Composition Monitor is a completely unique product giving your individual readings for each body segment (trunk, right arm, left arm, right leg and left leg).
Eureka N!ergy 1210 Tent
Camping doesn’t always have to be so rough. The Eureka N!ergy 1210 tent brings you the ability to sleep eight in two rooms with two doors and a gear loft.
Excalibur Pool Lounger
Looking like something straight out of SkyMall or Brookstone comes the Excalibur Pool Lounger. Ridiculous purchases at it’s finest, it provides you motorized lounging in the pool as you soak in the rays and discreetly eye the ‘scenery’.
Kangaroom Charging Station
iPod, cellphone, blackberry, camera. You’re overloaded on gadgets and they’re probably lying around in multiple locations in your apartment with half dead batteries.
Osprey V-22 Tiltrotor
The Osprey V22 from Boeing may be one of the most incredible looking and functioning aircrafts you never come in contact with. Its ability to function like a heavy-duty turboprop at high-speeds and high altitudes, then tilt its nacale Rolls-Royce Allison turbshafts to land and hover like a helicopter, then fold its wings back into itself to ship and store makes it a modern day transformer.
Bachelor Pad 3
You’ve got a nice desk, nice pens, but why is your writing medium still the same thing you used when you were in high school? Replace that yellow or pink post-it pad with something of substance.
Turtle Wax Ice Liquid Polish
The summer sun can be hell on your ride’s paint. It’s also the perfect time to keep your car clean for more than a couple of days.
Sea-Doo Seascooter Explorer
The idea of scuba diving around underwater passing coral reefs and other exotic life is appealing. The idea of scuba diving without any effort is even more appealing.
When one thinks of a dive watch, the image that usually comes to mind is that of a round steel case, rotating bezel and a black dial with three prominent hands. This conception is based on certain archetypal timepieces that have woven their way into our collective horological unconscious — a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms or Rolex Submariner. But at some point, these design elements were groundbreaking and sensational, even as the watch itself was when it first descended beneath the surface of the sea. It takes a lot to break the mold of what a dive watch can be, often to the point of absurdity, and in the past 60 years or so, many have experimented with shapes and materials, ways of displaying time and how their bezels operate. History is littered with design experiments gone wrong, as evidenced by the plethora of defunct 1970s dive watch brands that litter eBay. Still, watchmaking is all about innovation and some brands manage to swim against the current and produce wholly original designs that, while entirely new, can still be called dive watches. One of those is Clerc with its decidedly avant-garde Hydroscaph Chronograph.
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Clerc is an old name revived, the brand dating back to 1874 in Geneva. But unlike many of the revived brands, which are little more than a holding company buying a long-dormant name and dusting off some heritage editions, Clerc is actually run by Gérald Clerc, a descendant of the company’s founder. The company only has two watches in its current lineup, the Hydroscaph and its chronograph sibling of the same name, and it’s obvious that these watches are not based on some 19th century drawings found in the Clerc attic. These are thoroughly modern timepieces.
The mechanical watch is, ironically, an anachronism (literally, “backwards time”) and so is its sub-genre, the dive watch. Most divers use digital wrist-mounted computers to track depth and time, rendering the dive watch a quaint relic and symbol more than a legitimate tool these days. You would think this fact would be a death knell to dive watch companies but it has, in many ways, freed them from the constraints of strict underwater practicality, allowing them to experiment with design. The Hydroscaph is one result of such tinkering, managing to conjure the image and panache of a diving watch while being fairly unsuited for actual underwater use.
The calling card of any diving watch is its bezel, which rotates to track elapsed time. Over the years, the bezel has evolved to be more secure from accidental movement, first with a ratcheting mechanism and then with various shrouds and locks. The Hydroscaph bezel is a bold octagonal slab of DLC-coated steel with bevels on four sides. It is not meant to be gripped and turned, but rather operated with a small crown on the side of the case at 10:00. This crown has a fold-out locking clip that, when turned, rotates the bezel counter-clockwise in crisp ratcheting clicks. It is satisfying to operate but entirely impractical as a dive tool. This is innovation for the sake of it — and it works, but only as a design exercise. To unlock the crown, the clip must be flipped up with a fingernail, an operation difficult in normal circumstances and presumably impossible with wet fingers and certainly with neoprene dive gloves on.
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