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Sometimes, to survive in the woods, you need a bunch of expensive high-tech equipment and enough knives to conquer a small Canadian town. Witness the Bear Grylls Ultimate Pack ($950), by Gerber. It comes with a cool Bear Grylls backpack (a big, multi-pocketed backpack with space for all the ice … Read More
Let’s put this in the please-let-it-be-true pile: a team of inventors has created a patch that they say makes humans invisible to mosquitoes for about forty-eight hours. Kite is a small, colourful cloth patch. According to it’s inventors, you simply wear it and forget about it. Obviously, this is a … Read More
Serving picky dinner guests? Let them sear their own damn steak. Granted, there are more positive, less misanthropic reasons to pick up a few SteakStones ($136), but that’s what we’d use it for—that, and throwing a fantastic dinner party. Basically, you heat the lava stone in the oven, and then … Read More
Pacific Rim isn’t a great film. It’s basically just giant robots and monsters fighting each other and destroying entire cities as they did, and that’s why we loved it. In fact, if it had more giant monsters and robots fighting and fewer minutes explaining why, we would’ve loved it more. … Read More
The ordinary toothpick is a triumph of human ingenuity. It’s the best way to get food dislodged from your teeth while you’re in company. Fingers are crude and don’t work, flossing is a private matter, and using a steak knife runs the risk of a trip to the hospital. Astonishing, … Read More
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