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Hot Sauce Cookbook: How To Make Your Own Fiery Condiment

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You love hot sauce. And when someone has grown to love hot sauce as much as you do, it’s inevitable: you’ll eventually want to make your own because all the crappy spicy dressings in the stores just don’t tingle your taste buds the way you like. The Hot Sauce Cookbook is exactly what you need to get started on the path. Written by Robb Walsh, it’s billed as a “definitive guide to the world’s most beloved condiment.” Filled with recipes [...]

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Kombo Tool Combines Four Fisherman Tools In One

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You catch your own fish, kill it, gut it and prepare it for cooking all by your lonesome. The Kombo Fish Tool won’t help you with the catching, but it will let you do the rest with just one contraption, so you can pack lighter the next time you venture to the lake to cast some bait. Granted, you’ll still have to bring all your fishing gear with you, so you’re not going to lighten whatever you normally cram into [...]

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Portland Press Turns The Mason Jar Into A Coffee Maker

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You already drink your morning coffee off a Mason jar for whatever reason, might as well make your coffee on it, too. That’s right, you can turn the iconic molded glass jar into your new favorite coffee maker with the Portland Press. No, we’re not talking about settling for instant coffee to satiate your caffeine fix. Designed by Bucket, this is a functional albeit small French press designed to be used with the humble Mason jar, effectively turning it into [...]

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2013 Mokai ES-Kape Is A Motorized Kayak

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Kayaking is fun. But even hours upon hours of paddling on your Citibot Kayak won’t let you reach those remote upstream locations that are often prime locations for fishing, hunting and exploring. The 2013 Mokai ES-Kape solves that by offering a motorized kayak that you can take to those formerly inaccessible places. Powered by a Subaru EX21 electric-start four-stroke engine coupled with a proprietary jet drive, it can run through upstream paths and river hazards like a real boss. With [...]

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BoatPack Is A Car Roof Box That Doubles As A Dinghy

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Every time you hit the lake, you bring a boatload of gear along with you. Might as well house all that gear in an actual boat, right? That’s exactly what you can do with the BoatPack. Instead of hauling a roof box for your gear and a boat separately, the space-optimizing solution combines them into one, using the boat as a top lid for the roof-mounted container base. It comes with four hinging points, so you can secure the boat [...]

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Yoga Sak Is Perfect Backpack For Yoga Classes

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We’ve seen bags equipped for specific activities before, from holding DJ gear to protecting photography equipment to stealthily carrying a stash of cold beer. If you spend your afternoons posing in awkward positions while trying to breathe really calmly, the Yoga Sak just might be the perfect backpack for you. Designed to hold your full set of supplies for yoga class, it saves you from having to cram all that stuff into bags that weren’t exactly built for them. That [...]

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BBQ Bruce Is A Hanging Grill For The Balcony

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Urban living can be nice, but it usually means missing out on small pleasures like weekend barbecues. If you’ve got a balcony and the next-window neighbors won’t mind the smoke, the BBQ Bruce Handrail Grill should make for a suitable outdoor cooker. Designed by Henrick Decker, it’s a small rectangular grill that hangs onto the handrails of a balcony. Yep, much like those small hanging flowerpots for small urban spaces. Instead of holding soil and plants, though, it comes with [...]

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Sasquatch Cocktail Shaker Can Serve Ten In One Go

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Sometimes, you happily mix cocktail after cocktail for your party guests. Other times, you wish they’ll just take a vodka bottle each and drink straight from the bottle. Maybe you just need a way to make ten servings worth of a cocktail in one fell swoop. Well, that’s exactly what you can do with the Sasquatch Cocktail Shaker. It’s built, shaped and otherwise equipped like a regular cocktail shaker. Except, of course, it’s way larger, allowing it to hold 110 [...]

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Luminair Tree Tent: Forget Cabins, Get A Tree House Instead

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You just bought a sweet piece of property by the lake a couple hours off city limits. And you’ve been thinking of using it as your hiding grounds in case of an apocalyptic event. While you can always buy one of those pre-fab Bunkies for that, we’re thinking something like the Luminair Tree Tent will be plenty more appropriate. Just don’t confuse it with Cocoon tree hanging tent we covered in the past. If you’re hiding from threats, a tree-mounted [...]

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Baconkit Has Everything You Need To Make Bacon At Home

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You eat too much bacon. And you still can’t get enough. Might as well surrender to the bacon and make your own at home. If you have no idea how that’s done, better get the Baconkit. No need to scour local stores to compile the right tools for making your own bacon: just pick up a kit and you’re immediately ready to turn out your own fresh strips of delicious, fatty meat. Well, provided you didn’t forget to buy the [...]

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Papercraft Pagani Zondas Let You Build Your Own Supercar Fleet

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You already own a mini-garage full of papercraft trucks. And you’ve had your fill. Now, it’s time to get cranking on your own fleet of supercars. You can start with these Papercraft Pagani Zondas. One of the rarest sportscars ever built (only 206 Zondas have been produced throughout its 12 year run), this is the kind of papercraft project to bring prestige to your toy garage. Sure, it won’t get you hot party girls with low self-esteem the way the [...]

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Transporter Boat Compacts Into A Towable Box

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We’ve seen modular boats, folding boats and other efforts to make small seafaring vessels easier to bring during trips. The Transporter is the latest in the line, boasting a modular feature that lets you break it apart and store the individual pieces in a box. Granted, the resulting box isn’t small enough for carrying around like a bag. The bundled pack, though, allows it to be crammed into the back of an SUV, tied down to the roof of your [...]

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Bear Star Lets You Hang And Hide Your Bear Bag Like A Ninja

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When camping, it’s not uncommon for experienced outdoorsmen to make arrangements to outsmart hungry bears — often, by keeping all their food inside a bag (or a BearVault) and hanging it way up in a high branch of a tall tree. And you should be doing the same. The Bear Star is intended to make the process of getting your bear bag up in the air an easier affair. A line-throwing tool, it saves you from the usual hassle of [...]

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Putter Pool Looks Ridiculously Fun

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You enjoy a round of golf with business acquaintances as much as you enjoy drunken pool with the buddies, but neither is really that fun to play with your kids. We’re not sure how you’ll enjoy Putter Pool, but the chance of entertainment is always high when games are this ridiculous. Basically, it’s a putting game played on a mat with a pool table layout, along with numbered golf balls instead of those blank dimpled thingies. That way, you can [...]

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20 Gadgets From CES 2013 To Help You Stay Fit And Healthy

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CES wrapped up last Friday. One of the most notable things in this year’s show was the sheer amount of health and fitness gadgets that made their way onto the floor, with estimates of a minimum 25 percent increase over the number of last year’s products in the same category. We’re not sure why health and fitness is suddenly a lucrative consumer electronics niche, but it seems to be. My guess is, the demand has always been there, but it [...]

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Papercruiser Foldable Model Vehicles: Build Your Own Fleet Of Awesome Trucks

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Granted, matchbox-sized papercraft models of awesome cars isn’t half as awesome as that Lifesize Papercraft Honda NSX we saw some time ago. When it comes to papercraft projects you can actually build in your desk, though, we’re guessing these Papercruiser Foldable Models are more within reach for solo craft hobbyists. Don’t worry, there’s no need for high-end design skills in this one. Instead, the models are sold as PDF files you can download. Just print them to a decent card [...]

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Cool Reads: The Unofficial Lego Builder’s Guide

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You want to take the next step from being a casual LEGO enthusiast to being a hardcore participant in the brick-building universe. But before you can progress, it’s important to build on your stock of knowledge and draw from the experience of those who came before you. The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide will probably figure as a must-have in your reading list. As a casual tinkerer, you relied on following instructions from the official sets to build your LEGO creations. [...]

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North Face Dome Tent Brings Igloo Shape, Extreme Durability

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Sure, your Fieldcandy Tent brings as much personality as utility, making your tent stand out in a sea of them at crowded camps and outdoor festivals. When you need extreme performance from your pop-up shelters, though, you need something more along the lines of the North Face Dome Tent. Billed as “the ultimate eight-person expedition base camp tent,” it features a dome design that’s built to “withstand the merciless environments of the Himalayas and Antractica.” We’re guessing it’s based [...]

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Learn To Drive A Tank Next Weekend

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So long as you can load up the fuel it requires, a tank will be one of the most ideal vehicles you can have during post-apocalypse times. It’s armored as heck for utmost protection, it can run over most other vehicles in its way, and you can load it with a literal gaggle of weapons. Provided, of course, you actually know how to operate one. If you think such knowledge will be priceless in your future survival, you may want [...]

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