For us Northern hemispherian’s Summer is coming up fast. This season be prepared to hit the beach, pool, or even kiddie pool in style. The Rip Curl Mirage 3 are high quality shorts with the slogan “Like wearing nothing”. We don’t want to go off with their marketing buzz-words for their technologies like “Quadroflex quick dry system”, but these are incredibly light weight, have no crotch seams, silicone cords, and a grippy waistband. Check ‘em out.
There’s not much worse than drinking warm beer, well actually never being able to have Megan Fox is one, but that’s not the point. The Blitz Chiller solves this problem, and solves it quickly. Its revolving chilling chamber can chill a can down to 38ºF in 2 minutes flat and 33ºF (ice cold) in 4. So either you stay ready and make sure you always have cold ones on deck, or you get yourself one of these for back up.
World Cup is coming up pretty fast and if you don’t have your gear yet then you need to make some decisions pretty soon. The Nike All-Over tee gets the point across that it’s a soccer shirt, but has a nice level of subtlety. We wish there were more choices but it looks like there’s only a USA and Netherlands version.
Designed for the Chinatown Soccer Club and now released in a limited run, the CSC Soccer Bag takes all the modern functionality of your typical Incase pack and combines it with the perfect soccer bag. The bag features a wide-mouth opening, a removable shoe bag for your cleats, a full size soccer ball compartment, and it still has enough room for a water bottle and your laptop (up to a 17″ MacBook Pro) and accessories.
The Chicago designer Jenny Beorkrem has added some new material to the mix with the brain poster. If this poster looks familiar, it’s because you may have seen some of her other typographically screen printed city map posters before, such as Los Angeles and New York City. These posters are definitely a cool way to rep where you’re from.
Move over Nike+ Runstar is here. Runstar takes a different approach to tracking your runs by plotting your GPS location over time. When you’re done with your workout you can even see your results plotted on the map. Runstar also allows your to set goals, track your times, track your speed and even track your elevation. The UI looks to be borrowed from the iPhone and we have no gripes with that, it looks great. The best part of Runstar? it’s completely free.
OK… Seriously. This is MAN food. KFC decided that bread is no longer a prerequisite for a sandwich. Introducing the Double Down. Instead of bread, you get two pieces of chicken, cheese, bacon and some sort of sauce. The only way to be more manly than this sandwich is to buy a Big Mac and a Fish Filet and stick it in the center. In all honesty though it isn’t as bad as we figured. It’s only 540 calories and 32g of fat. Or if you want to be a health nut, you can get it grilled and it will only be 460 calories and 23g of fat. Either way, in our opinion it’s totally worth it. </sarcasm>
The only part of the 9-5 that you can truly enjoy alone is that time spent on the can. We think it’s safe to say that the majority of the population plays with their phone or reads something while they’re on the can. We know we do. We found something that suits this daily event called “The Toilet Paper.” These guys provide you with “provocative, intelligent and reliably good content; stuff for the thinking man in everyone.”
“Two-plied with wit and quilted with cool, The Toilet Paper is a free email that mixes current events into a water-cooler-ready shot of knowledge. Busting out astounding facts, stats and all-around kick ass info, in just two minutes, you’ll be down with what’s up. Roll with us and get smart.” Do yourself a favor and utilize that time on the pooper and learn something!
The APL Concept 1 Shoes weigh only 15 ounces and are made from space-age materials, including a patent pending Load N’ Launch technology which is designed to provide an “instant” improvement in vertical leap. Now we don’t actually know if the instant boost in your vertical is true or if it makes a significant difference , but the shoes do look sweet and if the boost is true, even better. So basically this device along with high performance materials such as microfiber mesh and special anti-microbial lining, make these kicks unique from the rest on the market.
For those of us who have to suit up for a 9-5 job, here’s a product that is useful in more ways than one. The Exuvius collar stay does more than just keep your collar stiff, this cool accessory provides auxiliary features such as a bottle opener on one end, and a flat Phillips and slot-tipped screwdriver on the other. We know for a fact this can, and will be useful. As they say, “make sure that this titanium laser-cut collar stay is the only tool in your shirt.”
