Some things don’t make sense. At least to one’s eyes. So when I saw the YouTube video I’ve embedded, I wondered whether it could possibly be real. Yet this purports to be a pool table on a cruise ship in rough water. The poster claims that this pool table was a cruise ship called “Radiance of [...]
If this metal strongbox looks like a military surplus ammo box to you that’s because it is one. Actually, it’s a Zombie Box, which means it has been modified to be even more indestructible. They also get cleaned, blasted and refinished to look prettier than hell and even come with optional keyed locks. It’s like [...]
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The good folks at Dornbracht have done mankind a solid: They’ve reinvented the shower. The company’s new Horizontal Shower literally flips showering conventions on their side, converting the whole experience into something luxurious, indulgent and, yes, lazy. The shower features something called the Ambiance Tuning Technique, which allows the user to control the intensity, burst frequency and [...]
Usually, by the time our shot glasses look like this, we’re already half in the bag and can’t find our keys.Tipsey Glasses by Loris&Livia is definitely a mind fu*k if you’ve had a few. The melted down shooters are questionably disproportionate, but a standout collection of barware for your home or establishment. Hit the thumbs and don’t forget [...]
![Here’s a Totally Freakin’ Awesome Millenium Falcon Guitar [VIDEO]](http://suburbanmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/milleniumfalcon-thumb-550xauto-83185-1-150x150.jpg)
I’m not going to bore you with a lot of fancy talk about this Millenium Falcon guitar. Let’s just say my enthusiasm for this guitar requires me to censor my speech to speech suitable to a level suitable for the workplace. This guitar, lovingly handmade, comes complete with blue hyperdrive lights, an R2-D2 headstock and, very likely, [...]
Forget about the 1-kilometer-high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be fifty meters higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap. The Azerbaijan Tower will be built on the Khazar Islands, an artificial archipelago that [...]
It’s been a long time coming, but the U.S. Congress just handed two orders to the Federal Aviation Administration: to upgrade its radar system to GPS and to open up manned airspace to unmanned drones. The latter is causing some concern, but both of these things, if done right, could mean some great things for aviation. [...]
Every few years Volkswagen focuses its design expertise on sleds instead of cars. And this year they’ve introduced a couple of new offerings, including this sleek Crazy Bob sled featuring Golf GTI branding. To keep the price at a reasonable $84, VW opted for a slightly heavier plastic unibody construction instead of carbon fiber. But with its [...]
This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two football fields and ten floors high. This thing was huge and heavy: 659 feet [...]
The Vessell shower bag from Quirky is ostensibly for travelers and folks who need to be able to lug their toiletries around with them, but might actually be an incredible way to deal with the disgusting showers in dorms and college houses. The bag itself is a really simple concept: it’s just a three-compartment shower bag with [...]
The Backcountry Boiler is a camp stove that burns stuff like sticks, pinecones and leaves instead of fossil fuel. It’s super light and the design of the little combustion chamber gulps in air for a quick heat up. Overall it’s a great idea unless it rains. ➤ KickStarter via werd
No one wants to get busted by the fuzz. At the same time, no one wants to drive slow. You have places to be, people to see and a car that just doesn’t feel right if the speedometer reads less than 65. Unfortunately, the speed limit isn’t as arbitrary as you’d like to believe it [...]
New Hampshire is known as the Granite State and the motto is Live Free Or Die. And up there they put state liquor stores on the sides of the freeway. True story. This stone drink dispenser, handmade in the Granite State combines everything N.H. is famous for: Yankee ingenuity, drinking and granite rocks, known to [...]
One of the drawbacks to being a modern, on-the-go guy is carrying around all that gear and gadgets. Streamlining your accessories into one portable pack is the JanSport Pleasanton ($250), a waxed cotton twill and leather bag with dedicated compartments for all your stuff. Stow your laptop in the 15-inch quick-access sleeve and your iPad or [...]
Nice new hard-sided suitcase. TSA compliant collection of toiletries. Clothes are packed, hotel is booked and you’re all set to go for your next trip. Until you hit the baggage pick-up when you land at your vacation destination of choice and can’t differentiate between the fifteen identical looking suitcases sliding down the conveyor belt. You [...]
They say you can’t teach old dogs new tricks — but the same axiom apparently isn’t true for the wood burning camp stove — the oldest camping gear dog of all. Like any other timber burnin’ stove, the BioLite CampStove is great for cooking, since there’s no risk of fire-starting chemicals flavoring your grub. Lugging fuel isn’t [...]
Over the past year or so, it seems that every fancy bar or ambitious restaurant cocktail list has included a barrel-aged cocktail: a cocktail mixed and ready to drink, but instead poured into a mini (or real big) barrel to mellow and take on a little oak flavor. Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s method has spread to Boston and New York, so [...]
Waxed canvas is really weatherproof until the wax wears off. Same with leather gloves or your rain-soaked Brooks saddle. Portland-based Otter Wax makes a kit that will treat all your old-fashioned outdoor gear. This kit includes water-repellent fabric wax, canvas cleaner, saddle soap and leather treatments to handle it all. ➤ werd
Zippo has always accepted larger custom corporate orders, but recently they’ve introduced a new flash-based online tool that lets you customize an individual lighter, for those who don’t need hundreds with a photo of their cat on it. You start by choosing the Zippo’s finish—brushed, painted, or chrome—and you then have the option of customizing the background [...]
If you love the taste of smoked meats but live in an apartment, don’t have the money or space for an expensive backyard smoker, or just don’t want to spend a lot of time smoking your meat or fish, this how-to from Saveur, shows you how to make a stovetop smoker that will add that smoked [...]
