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This Smart Beach Bag Keeps The Sand Out Of Your Stuff

Every time you go to the beach, little grains of sand will inevitably follow you home. But thanks to a hidden mesh compartment, the genius Shake Bag keeps the sand on the shore where it belongs.

10 April 2013

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Swim In This Chlorine-Free Swiss Pool With 1999 Of Your Closest Friends

Does the good weather have you hankering for a swim? In that case, check out the Naturbad Riehen, an “outdoor bathing lake” in Riehen, Switzerland. Although it won’t be open for another year or so, it looks utterly sublime.

12 March 2013

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$260 Portable Lounge Chair: For Professional Beach Bums Only

For most sunbathers, a towel, a bottle of sunscreen and sunglasses are all they need for a day at the beach. But every activity always has that one person who has to do overdo it, and they’ll be easy to spot dragging around this 10kg transforming monstrosity of a lounge chair.

26 January 2013

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How I Got At Least $2000 Worth Of Grill For $540

I love to grill. A lot. So much so that a proper outdoor cooking spot became the singular focus of my last apartment search. I got the deck, and it came with a beat-up old propane grill, which I, a devout charcoaler, vowed never to use.

25 January 2013

Gadgets

Therapik Bug Bite Relieving Gadget Review: It Actually Works

Are you being eaten alive by mosquitos? Is the itch driving you completely and utterly insane? Us too! So when we heard about this magic wand that supposedly takes the itch away, we had to call it in to make fun of it.

24 January 2013

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There Is A Right And A Wrong Way To Use A Beach Towel

You think your beach towel is just some colourful barrier between your arse and the sand? Wrong. That water-wicking blanket is actually an intricately designed instrument, fine-tuned to provide you with the best possible poolside experience. And here’s the thing: It’s entirely possible that you’ve been using it wrong all along.

23 January 2013

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How To Make The Perfect Ice Cube

Most of the world’s ice cubes are cloudy, soft and weak. These hazy rocks are less dense, and they melt faster, leaving your drink watered down and terrible. Plus, opaque ice is just ugly.

22 January 2013

Cameras

Olympus TG-1 Tough Compact Camera Review: Meet The Perfect Summer Sidekick

Every summer as you pack your bags for the beach, gear up for a festival or saddle up for a barbecue, you look at your camera and think one of two things depending on what you own: it’s either too big and chunky to take, or it’s too small and fragile to expect to get back. Olympus has a fix for this in the form of the TG-1 Tough camera: the perfect summer sidekick.

Science

This Ice Cream Cart Runs On Sunshine

Those ice cream trucks might deliver dairy goodness, but whatever comes out of their tailpipes can’t be good for the planet. That’s why these solar-powered ice cream carts are so awesome.

17 January 2013

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How Much Technology Would You Trade For Air Conditioning?

Complaining about the heat is about as tiresome as sitting in an unairconditioned room and sweating into the puddle of tears you’re sobbing because your body is shutting down from heat stroke. So let’s not do that. Instead, let’s ask: What is the technological masterstroke of air conditioning worth to you?

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