A long-lasting camping mug that’s portable and well-insulated to keep your drinks warm can spell success for your camping excursion. Whether you’re a coffee addict, or it’s water, juice, or beer that you’re carrying along to camp, you need your fluids well contained and kept warm, hot, or cold, as you’d prefer. Choosing the right camping mug can be a difficult task. Lucky for you, we’ve put together this list of mugs that are poised to make your next camping trip even more exciting....

Even as cigarettes are being maligned, cigars and marijuana smoking are rapidly increasing. Add in the fact that classical styles are returning to vogue with retro and vintage shops cropping up everywhere, and it’s a perfect storm for the comeback of the smoking jacket. They are classier than a robe, more stylish than a housecoat, and who doesn’t want the opulent, relaxed look that defined Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner. That’s why we’ve compiled this easy guide to wearing a smoking jacket....

Few can boast that they hit the snowy slopes with Bentleys strapped to their feet. If you’re the winter sporting type with an unlimited budget, you might just be able to join that exclusive group. The Bentley Zai Supersport Skis are a set of carbon fiber-reinforced skis made of fine thermoplastic, rubber and chrome steel, the result of a collaboration between Bentley and the Swiss ski manufacturer Zai. While the lovely product photography certainly helps, a close look at the skis reveals some truly luxurious, sexy winter sports gear....

To ensure you don’t end up in some Caribbean dive bar that time forgot, we’ve gone to the ends of the Earth to put together the 19 best off-season travel destinations for bargain hunters and thrill seekers; who, like girls, just want to have fun. The Bahamas When to Go: Autumn The Bahamas doesn’t have fall, it has hurricane season. That actually sounds much worse than it is. You’re less likely to be caught in a deadly storm than you are to end up with a delayed flight and little else....

We wanted you to have a better mobile ice-box, and so we thought it was time to find the 15 best camping coolers for the people who need more than just a styrofoam crate. A Word of Camping Cooler Advice It should be noted that getting the right ice chest is only half the battle. Packing it properly and getting the size that suits your needs are also enormous factors that affect how well your cooler operates while you camp....

From a wall-sized canvas to a personal recording booth to a 3D printer, the tools of the trade are a lot more exciting and fulfilling to a creative individual. Join us to explore ways to build a great creative man cave for the artist, musician or tinkerer in you. [above: the creative space of Dan Tidswell, one of the most shared work spaces on flickr] Building your man cave: Location, Location, Location The creative man cave requires a space of its own, preferably as far away from other responsibilities as possible....

The collection of Dream Cars will be on display at the High Museum of Art from May 21st through September 7th in Atlanta, Georgia. Amongst the collection’s best is the 1948 Buick Streamliner by Norman Timbs, shown below, one of the most visually stunning vehicles ever produced. It isn’t the first time I’ve shared the Streamliner here at TheCoolist, suggesting that “curves like these inspire poetry”. The curves of that Streamliner most certainly do, and anyone who heads to Atlanta for this exhibition will leave feeling precisely the same....

Fans of the Ferrari motorsports brand will soon have a world class destination for the Ferrari experience. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is nearing completion on the largest indoor theme park in the world. Inspired by the double curve side profile of the classic Ferrari GT, this bright red architectural gem will bare a Ferrari logo stretching 215 feet in diameter, also the largest in the world. Indoors and out, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will feature 20 rides and attractions including the world’s fastest roller coaster....

Artist, entrepreneur and tea lover Zhang Jin Jie wanted to create a business that would reflect and indulge her many passions. The Green T. House is precisely that, a “tea experience” that encompasses dining, music, art, architecture, and the aforementioned leafy beverage. Beijing’s Green T. House is a dynamic paradise of unique room settings from spa to restaurant, lounge to kitchen. In a choose-your-own adventure fashion, guests can indulge every sense in Zhang Jin Jie’s Green T....

This is art on a truly biblical scale. Mexican artist Pedro Reyes moved to make a social statement against the dangerous drug war being waged in Mexico, specifically the city of Culiacán with it’s high fatality rate from gun fire. The Weapons to Plowshares project, or Palas por Pistolas en Espanol, worked to gather over 1,500 firearms from the local public. This collection of handguns and high-powered rifles were steamrolled, smelted and refined to be born again as shovels for a new life to serve the public....

Typeface. Tasty, tasty typeface. Font fanatic Beverly Hsu has created a contemporary cookie cutter that carves out the greatest font of all time, Helvetica. The Helvetica Cookie Cutters produce cookies that faithfully replicate the format of the Helvetica font, making tasty treats for the design minded. While Miss Hsu’s cookie cutters are not yet in production, she’s looking for more production options to bring them to the market. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to have our font and eat it too!...

Most of us see dogs as friendly companions who can pick us up on even our worst days. For over 12,000 years though, humans have used dogs for not only companionship but also for hunting. Over these years, dog breeds have been developed to hunt. Some breeds are experts in flushing out game, and some take the upper hand in retrieving it. What Makes a Great Hunting Dog? Hunting dogs are agile, have coats suitable for even the worst weather conditions, and, of course, have an incredible sense of smell....

Traveling from Norway to the Italian Alps, then to Morocco and back again, “Dream Road” (which debuted at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance) is a breathtaking virtual reality ride in the Infiniti Q60 Concept car. Covering close to 3,500 miles in the next gen coupe, the route in the film is impossible to recreate in a day, but the team behind the concept have made it an experience in which we can all partake....

The restaurant features a comfortable contemporary interior with slatted wood ceilings that complement the natural flooring below. An open air patio is available for guests who prefer to dine and drink outdoors in a festive, tropical atmosphere. The patio is lined with a growing green wall designed by Patrick Blanc, a celebrated landscape architect who specializes in living walls like these. The furnishings, the open patio, the green wall and the contemporary interior make for a rich design experience that fits perfectly with the grand architecture below....

TheCoolist’s obsession with light-borne art continues, this time with the industrial-inspired light sculptures of Iván Navarro. This Chilean artist has created a series of sculptures using fluorescent lights, mirrors and little else. His human forms are amongst our favorites, but the reflective works have an infinite character to them, where color and text fade into nothing in a mirrored distance. Navarro’s works are for sale on ArtNet, including many of the works shown in the gallery below....

A great driving road is one that has variation in its layout, allowing you to enjoy meandering through hills, straightaways where you can really knock the carbon off your valves, and landscape that rewards you with new sights wherever you go. These roads should be well-maintained, have a minimum of daily traffic, and be easy to use and enjoy without fretting over potholes or busted blacktop. To see it done right, here’s the 17 best roads to drive anywhere on our home planet....

Given the abject, bureaucrat-level stupidity that babies have, it’s important to monitor everything they do, make sure they don’t swallow something that will hurt them, don’t suffer with a wicked case of the sniffles, and aren’t taking illicit money from the Koch brothers under the table. To keep your simpleton children from danger, it’s important to have a baby monitor that is sensitive enough to pick up every cough, but doesn’t also leave you with ambient noise bleeding over....

Clothing is a major form of self-expression. Regardless of your personal style, your clothes should match. Your appearance says a lot about you, so a cohesive outfit is important whether you’re dressing for a casual, professional, or formal setting. The way you dress can impact other people’s opinions of you. Throwing on a mismatched outfit can make you look and feel awful. Having a firm grasp on how to match clothes will convey a sense of confidence and maturity....

While we might be a bit partial to the Lamborghinis, the Aston Martins and the Bugattis of the world, we’d be foolish not to openly admit our respect for the Mini. When it comes to automobiles (or anything, for that matter), if you’re going to go small– best do it in style. The new Mini Cooper Savile Row edition is the coolest kind of style for the coolest brand of small....

So what made the fixed gear bike the tool of the trade of the urban traveler? You won’t really know until you ride one, but we can say it as simple as this– in just a few turns of the crank, you’re at top speed, carving up the city streets at a stunning pace. The Momentum Ringleader No.1 Fixed Gear Bicycle brings a fresh, colorful design aesthetic to the art of fixed gear bikes, while maintaining the simplified approach to street cycling....