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Ergonomic Momnt Mug

Ergonomic Momnt Mug

Coffee mugs serve their purpose pretty well, but ordinary handles mean the cup tends to tilt unless you grip hard. The Moment Mug from Artisan Tide features a patent-pending handle design with a curve that nestles between your middle and ring fingers, ensuring the mug never slips. Available in Cloud White or Sea Foam Green in 1-, 2-, or 4-packs.

Gerber Fastball Winter Knife

Gerber Fastball Winter Knife
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This special edition of Gerber’s Fastball knife features a Dark Urban Blue aluminum handle, laser engraved with a winter scene. It has a 3″ plain-edge Wharncliffe blade made from stonewashed S30V steel. Opens easily with a finger flipper and a smooth ball-bearing mechanism. Available in limited quantities exclusively from the Gerber online shop.

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Tokyo Cult Recipes

Tokyo Cult Recipes
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Bring the flavors of Tokyo home with Maori Murota’s wonderful cookbook, Tokyo Cult Recipes. It’s packed with more than 100 recipes for Japanese dishes inspired by local restaurants and home cooking. You’ll learn to cook gyoza, ramen, tonkatsu, miso soup, and more. It’s even got sweet treats like mochi and yuzu sorbet.

Lumintop GT Nano Brass Flashlight

Lumintop GT Nano Brass Flashlight
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Measuring just over 2″ long, this tiny flashlight outputs up to 450 lumens and has a beautiful solid brass body. It’s IPX8 waterproof and dustproof, and knurling provides visual interest and grip. A red/green light on its tail provides a quick indication of charging status. It’s also available in black anodized aluminum.

Wool Felt + Leather Cable Organizer

Wool Felt + Leather Cable Organizer
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CitySheep handmakes these organizer pouches for carrying cables and other accessories. They’re crafted from natural wool felt and leather and have two pockets for headphones, chargers, mice, and more. There’s also a leather pen/pencil loop and twin magnetic closures. They also make matching laptop and iPad cases.

Solo Stove Mesa Mini Fire Pit

Solo Stove Mesa Mini Fire Pit
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This compact version of the Solo Stove is designed for tabletop outdoor use. It burns small pieces of wood or pellets and is great for warmth on chilly days or roasting marshmallows. An optional deflector helps direct heat where you need it. It comes in a 5.1″ diameter model and a 7″ diameter Mesa XL version, both in various colors.

Howard Miller Zephyr Bar Cabinet

Howard Miller Zephyr Bar Cabinet
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This unique bar cabinet from Howard Miller furniture looks like a gigantic capsule microphone. The industrial-style cabinet is made from metal and wood and features a stemware rack, two fixed shelves, and a removable rack that holds up to 16 wine bottles. Curved metal doors add visual interest and let you peep what’s inside. Measures 78″ H x 23.25″ across.

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Coast Slayer Dual Beam Flashlight

Coast Slayer Dual Beam Flashlight
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This waterproof aluminum flashlight from Coast features independent spot and flood optics. Its fixed-focus flood light outputs up to 380 lumens, while the spot light hits 540 lumens. In turbo mode, it’ll produce 1150 lumens. It includes a removable pocket clip and recharges quickly via USB-C.

Frostguard Scrape Buddy

Frostguard Scrape Buddy
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Parking your car outside in the wintertime can suck. The Scrape Buddy makes getting ice off your windows easier with its ergonomic design and strong, diamond-polished acrylic edge. Its 5″ wide blade scrapes away ice quickly, and it’s small enough to keep in your glove box. It’s available in clear or blue.

Plywood Milk Crates

Plywood Milk Crates
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Milk crates are a great way to store records and books. But the plastic ones look really cheap. For a more refined look, consider these wooden crates from WAAM. They’re made from high-density birch plywood and offer a playful take on the ones you probably shouldn’t have swiped from the alley behind the grocery store.

Nxtabl Smart Coffee Table

Nxtabl Smart Coffee Table

This unique coffee table has a built-in 43″ touchscreen and tilts from a flat to an angled display. The Nxtbl’s 4K screen is backed by Android 13 and has HDMI, USB-A, and USB-C connectors. It has a waterproof, scratchproof, and glare-resistant tempered glass surface and works for gaming, computing, watching videos, and Zoom calls with an external camera.

Liquid Sand Glow Lighter

Liquid Sand Glow Lighter

This unique and eye-catching lighter is filled with fluid and luminous sand that glows in the dark and flows when you turn it. We’re not sure it’s a legit Zippo product, but you can take your chances from Lighter Boutique’s website or one of these generic ones we found on Amazon if you’re willing to give it a shot.

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Outdoor Café Boxes

Outdoor Café Boxes

Kenta Gomazaki loves to spend his time outdoors. To enhance his experience, he outfits metal gear boxes with equipment for making coffee, cooking, and serving food. His Instagram channel is filled with his wonderful creations, each is packed with unique Japanese gear for enjoying outdoor living. Kenta’s setup videos are fun and inspiring, too.

How to Cut Corners

How to Cut Corners

You can cut pieces of wood to meet perfectly in a corner using a miter saw. But there are other scenarios where you need to work around things that make it more challenging. Entertainer Chaz Bruce re-shared this video of carpenters dealing with tricky corners while he and his son reacted to the cuts. That four-way pipe joint was so satisfying.

Nanuk Nano Waterproof Cases

Nanuk Nano Waterproof Cases
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These hard-shelled polycarbonate cases are perfect for keeping gadgets, cash, and other small items safe from damage when camping, boating, or in any outdoor situation where water is a concern. They’re waterproof, dustproof, and close securely with a triple action latch. Available in three sizes and a variety of colors.

WhistlePig Dank & Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail

WhistlePig Dank & Dry Old Fashioned Cocktail
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Celebrating Dry January? WhistlePig has your fix with a tasty blend of non-alcoholic rye whiskey, maple syrup, and Vermont cannabis terpenes. It won’t get you buzzed or high, but it’ll tickle your tastebuds with a lightly sweet flavor and heady aroma. The Hot Box bundle adds a pig head smoker and cocktail smoking chips. All proceeds go to Turning Tables.

SOG FastHawk Tactical Axe

SOG FastHawk Tactical Axe
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Weighing just 19 ounces, SOG’s FastHawk is a great addition to any camping pack or bugout bag. The 12.5″ long hatchet has a heavy-duty 420 stainless steel blade that chops branches and small pieces of wood with ease. It’s got a spike on its back end, and its side can be used for hammering. Includes a ballistic nylon sheath.

Building AI-Generated Furniture IRL

Building AI-Generated Furniture IRL

Builder John Malecki wanted a new media center for his office. Rather than designing the cabinetry himself, he turned to generative AI to come up with the concept. After playing with a few prompts, Midjourney came up with a design. Its organic shapes caused construction challenges, but John and his team did a great job bringing the real-world version to life.

Discommon Bottle Opener 3.0

Discommon Bottle Opener 3.0

The latest version of Discommon Goods‘ luxury bottle opener features a sleek new design inspired by supercars. We love its smooth and curvy shape and the way its chrome finish shines like a mirror. It’s one bottle opener you’ll want to leave on your desk instead of tucked away in a kitchen drawer.

Grenade Ice Mold

Grenade Ice Mold
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Ordinary ice cubes are so boring. Liven things up and drop a bomb in your drink with this grenade-shaped silicone ice mold. Beyond looking cool, big ice cubes keep drinks colder longer without watering them down, and at 4.5″ x 3″ x 2.5″, these are a great size for most glasses. Sold in a set of two molds.

Xbox Series S Toaster

Xbox Series S Toaster
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Lots of us think that current-gen Xbox consoles look like appliances. After launching the Series X mini-fridge, Microsoft has licensed Ukonic to make an official Xbox Series S toaster. The boxy 2-slice toaster looks just like the game system, has an extra-long, wide slot that works for bagels, and burns an Xbox logo graphic into your bread.

Excel Revo Folding Utility Knife

Excel Revo Folding Utility Knife
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This folding utility knife from Excel Blades is ideal for opening packages, cutting foam boards, and hobby and craft projects. It has a large finger hole at its pivot point that not only improves control but is great for fidgeters. It also has a built-in pocket clip, and its blade is easily replaceable.

Yeti Rambler Insulated Cocktail Shaker

Yeti Rambler Insulated Cocktail Shaker
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Fix mixed drinks wherever your adventures take you with this stainless steel cocktail shaker from Yeti. It features double-wall construction to keep contents cold, a twist-off cap, a sweat-proof exterior, and a leak-resistant lid. Fill, shake, and enjoy. Available in Camp Green, Rescue Red, Chartreuse, Cosmic Lilac, Navy Blue, and White.

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