Nite Ize Reflective Rope

Steps to a screaming match with your girlfriend whilst camping. Step one, trip over your tent line and collapse the tent. Granted, that could have been prevented with a proper taunt-line hitch, but it also wouldn’t hurt to invest in a Nite Ize Reflective Rope ($10). This fifty-foot rope as … Read More

Stanley Cup Popcorn Popper

So, you have the signed jerseys of your favourite players, puck girl calendars, action figures, framed tickets stubs of your first game, and all kinds of other NHL memorabilia; what else is there for the hockey nut in your life who doesn’t have everything, but sure as hell wants it? … Read More

How to Make Your Own Wolverine Claws

Plastic wolverine claws are for toddlers; you want quarter inch steel wolverine claws, right? Well, if you have a band saw, belt grinder, induction forge, vertical miller, heat treating oven, and inexhaustible supply of stuff to destroy, you too can have your very own restraining order . . . um, … Read More

DTV Shredder

The DTV shredder ($4,000) is like what would happen if a tank and a scooter had a baby, who they then sent to the X-games. Also, it looks like something a GI Joe might come packaged with. It weighs about two hundred pounds, can hit thirty miles per hour, takes … Read More

The Bear Grylls Ultimate Pack

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

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