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The Latest Breakthrough in Sunglass Technology
We mostly pay attention to the front-facing part of our sunglasses, but apparently there’s been a huge breakthrough in the ear-related department. These Activist Eyewear frames boast an extra pair of...
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Technical Specs
Last week, information leaked about Google’s plans to release a chunky pair of glasses that will basically act as a smartphone. But earlier this month, something much more impressive flew a little...
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The Hot Tub Boat
Technology is an incredible thing. It’s given us the wheel, the airplane, the split atom. And perhaps more impressive than all these things, this week it gave us the Hot Tub Boat, a floating hot tub...
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The Coolest Yacht in the World Sets Sail
The Adastra is in the water, gentlemen. The 139-foot trimaran, which last week won Best Yacht Design at the 2012 Asia Boating Awards, will spend most of the summer traveling between two Indonesian...
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Happy Camper
We’re of the mind that if you’re going camping, you’ve committed to roughing it—you’re leaving the creature comforts of the indoors for a reason. But here’s one shortcut we’ll endorse: the BioLite....
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Is Steve Wozniak a PC?
A couple days ago, the online gadget guide Gizmodo posted and masturbated to a photo of the contents of Steve Wozniak’s travel backpack. In the photo (taken and annotated by The Woz himself), an...
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The Gear You Need to Compete Like an Olympian
The 2012 Summer Games are finally here—which is also good news for the weekend warriors of the world. Every four years, a new crop of high-tech sports gear is unveiled after spending the past four...
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Dasha Heard the Opening Ceremony Was Going to Be Very Pastoral
via FGR Cheers, Mate: The opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games will be on tv tonight, and the hospitable gents at GQ UK have come up with a drinking game for your viewing pleasure. (Just replace...
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Croakies for Your iPhone
Here’s a great way to make sure your charging cord never gets lost in the shuffle—or ends up on someone else’s desk by mistake. These new textile cords from Eastern Collective are like putting...
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French Artists in 1899 Visualize the Year 2000
In preparation for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, a group of French artists were asked to create a series of futuristic pictures depicting life in the year 2000. For example, here we have a robotic...
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The 1984 iPhone
That iPhone 5 sure is a powerful, sexy machine. But so is the entirety of Sony’s 1984 audio/visual collection, like the Beta Hi-Fi video cassette player which, as advertised, “blows you away” with its...
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Not That, This: In Defense of Low-Tech
Clothing has seen a lot of great technological advancement in the past century—new-age nylon, moisture-wicking fleece, genetically modified gloves that work on touchscreens—more often than not,...
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The State of the Sled
News of yesterday’s record-setting snowball fight in Seattle got us thinking about how there was a time in our lives when snow in the forecast was an exciting thing—instead of just a notice to allot a...
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Gentlemanly Poets, Charting the Strokes and Buzz Bissinger Goes Off the...
Cultured Club: The three poets every man should read, courtesy of Barack Obama’s inaugural poet Richard Blanco and Men’s Journal. Different Strokes: Grantland tracks the career arc of the Strokes as...
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The State of the Kite
It’s nearly picnic season again. And suddenly we’re reminded of when picnicking was a bona fide event: your parents would pack snacks and drive the whole gang to the park, or the beach, or whatever...
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Mitch Hedberg’s Notebooks, Locals with Their Arms Crossed and RRL’s Latest...
Wi-Fly: Google is taking wi-fi to 1 billion new users in Africa and Asia by blimp, reports The Guardian. Duly Noted: Late comedian Mitch Hedberg was ahead of his time, generating an endless amount of...
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Golf Shoes Handsome Enough for All 19 Holes
For every new technological development in sports gear, we seem to lose a little handsomeness in the process. (As a quick flip through any vintage issue of Sports Illustrated will confirm.) But there...
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Dusting Off: The Pneumatic Tube
Countless devices have become obsolete since the advent of the digital age, but one of the most overlooked casualties has to be the pneumatic tube. It went the way of the telegram decades ago (you’ll...
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