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.
Let’s face it, we’ve gotten soft. The modern world of smartphones, paddle shifters and electric bikes have removed us from the capabilities that make life adventurous. Could you build a fire without a match? Didn’t think so. How about navigating in the wilderness without a GPS? Better update your will. In the absence of these core skills honed over millennia of human survival, men reach for surrogates to assuage their shortcomings, symbols of adventurous days of yore. But what you need to get started reclaiming your inner Shackleton is not a bigger SUV or an over-proportioned dive watch. No, we suggest you start with the elegant timepiece you see pictured here — the Glashütte Original Senator Observer — and a sextant.
In 1969, while men were approaching the first lunar landing, Robin Knox-Johnston was rounding Cape Horn alone in a small boat, on his way to becoming the first man to sail solo nonstop around the planet. Radio contact was sporadic, satellite phones and GPS decades in the future. Knox-Johnston found his way solely by his own fortitude and skills, navigating the same way sailors had since the late 1700s — by calculating his longitude using the angle of the sun and the known time difference between his present position and the time back at his home port. It was the same way Roald Amundsen found his way to 90 degrees south in 1911. The watch Amundsen used for his navigation was a deck watch built in Glashütte, Germany, a mechanical ancestor of the new Glashütte Original Senator Observer.
Before the advent of radar, LORAN and GPS, navigation itself required the sextant and an accurate timepiece, whether at sea or crossing Antarctica. Most commonly, the navigator would take a “sun shot” with his sextant and then do some math involving the angle of the sun and the time difference between his present position and his home port. The timing was critical; a few seconds fast or slow could mean a navigational error of many miles. The timepiece used for a reference onboard naval vessels was a marine chronometer, a highly accurate clock but one that was inherently fragile. The marine chronometer typically resided below deck in the navigator’s quarters, away from the salt spray, rain and possible damage up top. This presented a problem, since the navigator needed to be on deck to take his sextant reading. Therefore, a watch was needed, one that could be set to the chronometer reference below deck and also survive the conditions on deck, either in the pocket or, later, on the wrist. These watches were logically called “deck” watches or “observation” watches and the ones from Glashütte were some of the best, used by the German navy and by polar explorers and pilots over decades of exploration.
How a Sextant Works
Despite the prevalence of GPS, sextants are still in wide use by sailors, kept on board as backup devices should a GPS malfunction. Even if you never find yourself lost at sea, there’s something satisfying about knowing how to use an instrument from the 1700s. Essentially, a sextant measures the angle between two objects — in most cases, the sun and the horizon — using mirrors, an eyepiece and a calibrated scale. Once you get the hang of using it, read up on how to navigate with it using your nautical charts and an accurate watch.
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