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Drink directly from any fresh water source. This straw eliminates up to 99.9% of micro-organisms, up to 99.99% of all chemicals and heavy metals, and up to 99.9999% of viruses and bacteria. It's a must-have for hikers, campers, survivalists, and world travelers. $29.99

At Walgreens, buy one 6-oz Blue Diamond Almond Tin for $3.99 and get the second for free. Multiple flavors are available. Shipping is $5 or free on orders $25 or more.

Hot sauce just got a whole lot badder, for this one comes not only with the warming comfort of a combination of Asian and Southwestern chilies, but a brain jolting dose of caffeine too. DoubleKick Caffeinated Hot Sauce boasts around 12mg of caffeine per 1 tsp serving, is infused with ginger and tastes absolutely sublime

A handy travel item with a funky hip-flask design, the PowerFlask can generate a stomping 13000mAh of power to prevent your gadgetry from flat-lining. Fits easily in your bags or pockets, boasts rechargeable lithium battery and comes with two 30 pin iGadget connectors, USB cables and adapters and a powerful in-built LED torch. Best of all, it can even charge three devices at once.

Timepieces don’t come much classier or more iconic than the Victorinox Swiss Army 1989 Original Chronograph. Water-proof to 100m, it also boasts Swiss quartz movement, a nylon fiber case with aluminum bezel and a luxurious leather trench strap. What makes it even cooler still is that it’s a limited edition, so you’d better get in quick.

Barnaby Black prides itself on its naturalist bent that’s not just for girls, and the Barnaby Black Soaps and Candles are anything but feminine. With hints of cloves, tobacco, and coconut oil, these aren’t your girlfriend’s soaps; this is the soap a pirate would use. And if the ingredients don’t actually smell like cedar, frankincense, and your grandfather’s pipe, Barnaby won’t use them.

 

Available in more cool colors than a rainbow, the Naimakka Paracord Bracelet is weaved from paracord similar to the suspension lines used by Second Word War US paratroopers. Not only does it look pretty darn stylish, but boasts a host of uses such as securing a backpack, shelter, pitching a tent, making a fishing line or securing a splint to a broken leg. The yarns can even be further unravelled for sewing thread, dental floss and to weave a fishing net. Tom Hanks would have gotten off that island in Castaway a lot quicker with one of these.

Be the most stylish, well-equipped and well-protected guy in the workshop with the Gentleman’s Apron. Handmade in Japan from waxed canvas and premium leather, it comes with a slot for your pencil, a couple of loops for your tools, an easily adjustable waist strap and four different sized pockets for everything except putting your hands in.

Quite possibly the most beautiful – and eco-friendly – bicycles on the planet. Connor Wood Bikes are available in two models, the Woody Cruiser, made from sustainable American hardwoods, and the Woody Scorcher, built from ash. Each one is handcrafted in Denver, steam bent, Kevlar reinforced and finished with a luxurious marine spar varnish.

We like to think of ourselves as quite the coffee (and alcohol connoisseurs) here at GearCulture and Slingshot Cold Brew Coffee sure hits the spot. It’s blended using the finest organic beans, from a variety of fresh seasonal crops, locally roasted and added to filtered waters of North Carolina’s Oaks City. Delicious.

Have your cake and eat it with this phenomenal new monitor, the LG 26EA93-P IPS UltraWide Display. While all of the portable devices have hogged the limelight in the techno-world, LG have developed a screen that allows you to work, Skype or surf the net on a truly cinematic scale. With a whopping 21:9 ratio, it puts all other monitors in its rather large shade. A generous resolution and gorgeously sleek design, it boasts high-definition and countless screen options. At 700 bucks, it’s not cheap, but if you can spare the cash, well, well worth it.

Read more after the jump.

Design & Features
Its proportions are so wafer-thin, it’s almost an optical illusion. Especially considering the ridiculous amount of gadgetry it houses. The 29E93-P boasts LG’s revolutionary backlight technology that delivers color accuracy for an unrivaled quality that spews lifelike images from the screen. Vibrant colors and rich, deep blacks eliminate dark details, and the 21:9 ratio allows for movies to be watched at full aspect ratio with the black borders still stretched along top and bottom.

Not only that, but the 21:9 ratio vastly improves productivity with bags of real estate for multitasking. Who wants to deal with two monitors of differing resolution, to have to calibrate the colors and sound of the second monitor to marry-up with the primary? Not only will this half the amount of monitors on your desk, but double the amount of images on hand with its four-split screen function which allows for optimal use of the 2560×1080 screen resolution. Take advantage of the pre-set, 8-option four split screen that will even automatically resize the other windows when you drag and resize another window. No hassle, no headaches, no fuss, the 29EA93-P’s single display will minimize your workload by optimizing your working environment.

Sound
The audio experience is top-drawer. A built-in 14-watt speaker produces the crispest of mids and highs, easily filling a small room with the volume only halfway. The monitor’s solid construction means that even with the volume cranked up to the max there is minimal vibration or distortion, certainly far superior to the sound from leading portable Apple devices. For phonics that justify the image-quality when watching movies though, best to plug in some speakers.

 

Connectivity
The LG 29EA93-P boasts a heap of connectivity options that include a USB, three USB 3.0s, a DVI-D in, a pair of HDMI-ins, a display port and headphone out. MHL hook-up is supported to link with your smartphone using the included MHL to HDMI cable, meaning gaming can be enjoyed on the mammoth screen too. A dual link-up feature allows for the simultaneous connection of two devices, like a computer, camera, phone or Blu-ray player, to plug into the monitor to display both sets of content at once. However, strangely, although there’s a pair of HDMI inputs, there’s no function to enable a link-up of two HDMI devices at once.

 

Build & Quality
It really is a gorgeous piece of kit, functional, stylish and attractive. The design is sleek and alluring, the slender black bezel giving way to a shimmering chrome stand that allows for tilting, but no swivel. Its anti-glare matt finished screen eliminates tiresome reflections, contrasting nicely with its glossy white rear. The touch-sensitive controls are discreetly nestled underneath and are easily accessible, perhaps too easily, so beware of triggering them accidently.

Conclusion
It’s an impressive monitor, and goes above and beyond what you’d expect from a screen. You get a hell of a lot of bang for your buck, great features, and useful multitasking functions for both business and pleasure, and it really comes into its own when you kick back with your favorite movie or kick some ass with your favorite game.

Order your LG 29EA93-P IPS Ultrawide Monitor from Amazon for $700.

Ideal for the kids’ room or the spare room, the Hydraulic Storage Bed by BoConcept is a stylish and pracitcal space-saver. No cumbersome drawers, this magic matress has a flip-up mechansim that gives way to a queen-sized void. Avaiable with a white gloss, walnut veneer or stained black oak finish. Just make sure there’s no one on it when you open it up.

Military inspired, military colored and military tough. The Montague Paratrooper Folding Mountain Bike will handle any terrain and the collapsing design means that you can take it anywhere with ease. Its features include front suspension, 24-speed Shimano shifters and heavy duty double cage aluminum pedals. No tools are required to construct it, simply snap it open and away you go.

From Karl Benz’s Patent Motorwagen of 1885 through to the Ford Mustang, Porsche Spyder and the futuristic Aston Martin Bulldog, Top Gear: The Cool 500: The Coolest Cars Ever Made boasts snippets, commentry and gorgeous photograhy of, well, the coolest rides of all time. Petrol head? This is your bible.

An unusual, intruiging and downright beautiful design. The 57-jewel Ressence Type 3 Watch houses components forged mainly from titanium, with some sapphire crystal thrown in for good measure. There’s no air inside, instead a fluid for optimum efficiency and accuracy. Hours, minutes and seconds are displayed on three separate dials, with no hands, that instead rotate as discs. A truly revloutionary timepiece. Don’t ask us how it all works, but it’s something to to do with micro-magnetic fields.

Achingly cool and bursting with character, the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 404 Unimog is as tough as it is old. An icon of off-roading, this unstoppable beast features among many things, portal axles, front and rear differential locks, shift on the fly 4×4 and a whopping 17 inches of ground clearance. With an astonishing low center of gravity, it puts even the likes of the Land Rover Defender 90 in the shade. Here’s your chance to own a true motoring legend.

Don’t ruin your sharp-suited look by pulling out a disposable plastic freebie, add to your style with a classy Machined Brass Bolt Pen. Made in the US of A and machine forged from solid brass, it’ll take any Parker ballpoint refill and features a stainless steel clip. Weighs just under three ounces, adding to its substantial, quality feel.

Due to hit select retailers U.S. this month, Angel’s Envy Rye Limited Edition, is wickedly spicy whisky. Aged for over six years in charred oak barrels, malted barley mashbill has been added to the rye mix for a raw, earthy taste with aromas of gingersnaps, maple sugar and allspice. It’s one hundred Proof (50% ABV), but they’re only releasing two and a half thousand 9-liter cases, so you’d better get in quick.

We love looking at roll-your-own wristwatch projects. Getting a project small enough to carry around on your wrist is a real challenge. But we think the OTM-02 wristwatch really hit the form factor right on the mark.

OTM stands for Open source Time Machine. It’s the work of [Hairy Kiwi] and he managed to bring the guts of the watch in at a thickness between 6.5 and 7mm. That includes the LCD, PCB, piezo diaphragm, and the battery. The PCB itself is a four-layer board built on 1mm thick substrate. It’s running an EFM32 (ARM) microcontroller which comes with hardware USB support. The little door sitting open on the side of the 3D printed enclosure provides access to the micro USB connector which can be used to charge the 150 mAh battery inside. That may not sound like much juice, but if you set the display to show minutes only [Hairy] calculates a battery life approaching 175 days. If you just have to have the seconds displayed you can expect about two weeks between charges.

Like the name says, this project is Open Source.

[Thanks Liam]

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