Awesome Leisure

The popularity of Empress 1908’s Indigo Gin and Elderflower Rose Gin has yielded a third addition to the line. Made with eight botanicals, Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin is a crisp and refreshing blend for cucumber gin lovers. It’s bursting with flavors of citrus, jasmine, and delicate spice.

This palm-sized fidget toy from Jake Brownson’s ShinyCubes features an eye-catching design and a wonderfully tactile feel. It’s CNC-machined from a block of aluminum, and each of its sides is subtly curved with a diamond-textured finish. Jake also has some sweet honeycomb coasters in his Etsy shop.

Get a closer look at Hugh Jackman in Wolverine’s classic blue and yellow costume with Hot Toys’ new 1/6th scale action figure, based on the character’s appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine. The standard version comes with three swappable lower faces and three pairs of hands, while the Deluxe version adds extra suit pieces and an incredibly lifelike unmasked head.

First released more than 175 years ago, the original Glenmorangie 10-year-old was known for its mellow, delicate flavor. After all this time, The Original still holds our attention with notes of honey, orange, and creamy vanilla. Made in the Scottish Highlands in giraffe-high stills, it rests for a decade in bourbon casks.

These Time Warp jigsaw puzzles up the difficulty level by providing a different illustration on the box than what you’ll end up building. The trick is that the clue sheets and packaging show the scene during the daytime, but the puzzle takes place in the same location at night. There are currently five puzzle designs to choose from, each with 1000 pieces.

Gearheads will love this book from the folks at Bring A Trailer. It features original photos, details, and specs from 80 of the best 1980s cars that have been auctioned by the company over the years. The 11″ x 14″ coffee table is hardbound, and all proceeds from sales will go to the American Diabetes Association.

Leave your mark on the beach with these sand spheres from Olander Earthworks. Each concrete sphere is textured to make patterns in the sand. Designs include snakeskin, footprints, greebles, spirals, waves, and more. Available in four sizes, from 1 3/4″ to 3 1/16″ diameter. They also sell trays and microfine sand for tabletop zen gardens.

CLMC Music presents a fantastic compilation of his movie and TV show theme song mashups performed on a pair of KORG synths. The collection includes Ghostbusters x Knight Rider, Indiana Jones x The A-Team, The Mandalorian x Transformers, and many more. Whether you’re a fan of The Avengers, James Bond, or Harry Potter, you won’t be disappointed.

This upcoming game from developers Beethoven and Dinosaur and consistently great publisher Annapurna Interactive is a Gen Xer’s dream. Set to the soundtrack of the era, the artful adventure drops players into a 1980s world where they live out life in an interactive coming-of-age movie. Coming to PS5, Xbox, and PC in 2025. Wishlist it now on Steam.

The first big build video Colin Furze posted was a stunt in which he rode his scooter on a sketchy wooden “wall of death.” Now, he’s revisited that build with a bigger budget, more construction experience, and a new vehicle. He built the wall indoors this time and worked out some of the kinks to make its walls smooth enough for his electric drift trike to ride on it.

I’m a drinker, I’m a smoker, I’m a loser, I’m a poet… yeah I got some bad habits and I think you should know it. Fatboy Slim’s disco-backed collab with Dan Diamond and Luca Guerrieri speaks volumes about how just being a celebrity doesn’t make you a role model for others. The music video features questionable deepfakes of celebs singing the lyrics.

Rashida Jones stars in this Apple TV+ series about an American woman living in Japan who suddenly finds herself without her family. After her husband and son vanish in a plane crash, she receives a consolation gift from her husband’s company – a domestic robot named Sunny. The two form a bond and start to investigate what happened to her family. Drops 7.10.24.

UK shop ReadyPlayerTwo creates these nifty 3-dimensional logo signs inspired by classic video game and computer systems. Each one is 3D printed from PLA plastic to accurately replicate the original color scheme, and has neodymium magnets securely mounted inside.

Who says calendars need to be boring? The Part-Time Adult Daily Planner helps keep you organized and entertained at the same time. There’s a page for every day of the year, along with fun facts about holidays and celebrity birthdays, plus a grid for your ideas and doodles. It’s not year-specific, so you can start using it at any time.

The latest geeky creation from 3D designer Colby, aka ForgeCore, is a chess board that you can quickly tidy up simply by leaving the pieces on the board and rolling them up into log form. Colby designed the pieces using scans of actual mushrooms. If you sign up for a paid membership, you can download the 3D files for this set and his other creations.

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck lead this caper flick about an unlikely duo enlisted to rob a corrupt politician. Things don’t go according to plan, and they end up in a world of trouble trying to avoid the police, government officials, and gangsters. Directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) and starring a great supporting cast. Coming to Apple TV+ 8.9.24.