You can wear the best parkas in your car, out on the driveway, or in the wilderness in the middle of a blizzard. For this reason, the best parka is not just for form and function but an investment. You should have a winter coat that you can slip on, winter after winter, and stay toasty for days. For this reason, go for top-notch construction and avoid brands that cut corners when making fastenings, linings, or shells....

How to Pick a Toothbrush, According to the ADA The American Dental Association doesn’t have a stance on whether or not electric toothbrushes or manual ones are better. They say that both are equally bad if they sit in a holster, never to be put to use. Therefore, the better toothbrush is whatever one will find its way to your mouth. What they do suggest is seeking out a toothbrush that has the ADA seal of approval....

Picking a Good Blower Choosing a snowblower is all about efficiency and longevity, with an emphasis more on long-lasting than those that work amazingly well. The reason for this is because if a snowblower can last and last, needing to make two passes to get your driveway or sidewalk squared away is a small price to pay for 20+ years of service, which is what you should expect from a high-end snowblower....

The 1980 BMW M1 AHG Studie features the best of what BMW had to offer to the racing class. The standard BMW M1 featured a modest 3.5L V6 engine with 273 hp at its command. The racing class M1’s were given the works by comparison, featuring a turbocharged engine pushing 850 hp under the pedal. This BMW and the other racer M1’s were built for the track, but some owners kept them stock for a street legal experience....

If you’re looking to save money, save time, and help save the planet, all without wasting a bunch of your precious resources, then look over these 21 easy ways to make your home green. Go Meatless 1 Day a Week We’re serious carnivores who love a good steak, but we also recognize that the choice is sacrifice a little meat now, or have none later. Raising livestock is a drain on natural resources when compared with plants....

Almost. There’s nothing like reliving the glory days of the automobile, and those who are serious about their vehicles know that the gentle, padded, fiberglass models of today are all well and good, but it’s the 8-miles-to-the-gallon beasts of the past that really hold the heart of what cars are, before they became little electric conveyances. For these muffler masters, here’s a few practical ideas for vintage cars that can be had for relatively cheap, aren’t impossible to find, and make an appreciable addition to any vintage car collection....

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There is no better way to escape the thick fog of the Bay Area than escaping into the Northern California wilderness. There is so much to explore and immerse yourself in: Expansive wilderness, moody coasts, dramatic mountain ranges, and lush hardwood forest through the state’s diverse backpacking trails. Don’t know where to begin? No problem. We’ve compiled this list of some of the best backpacking trails in Northern California for your bucket list....

An Israeli family living abroad calls this beach retreat home when visiting their native country. The Beach Retreat by Pitsou Kedem Architects is a stunning contemporary home that is fully open to its tropical beach environment. As the family and their guests arrive, the floor-to-ceiling windows adjacent to the patio are rolled into the wall, providing an open pavilion-style connection with the home’s breezy beach setting. With the Mediterranean just steps away from the deck, it’s difficult to find a more relaxing locale on this stretch of the Israeli coast....

Everyone is looking for something different from their boots. Some want comfort, while others need strength, and waterproofing is a prized quality too. In this guide, we will highlight the best boots for all your needs. We will cover the best brands and the most popular styles. We will also cater for budgets big and small. This is the most comprehensive guide to the best work boots you will find anywhere....

Most leather wallets in the market hold their cards horizontally or are high-end designer vertical bifold items. An attractive $80 leather wallet can dampen the spirits of buyers who are wary about losing an expensive wallet to a pickpocket. The list below has excellent vertical closure wallets with the best of both worlds. But first, let’s go through what you need to consider when shopping for your ideal vertical bifold wallet....

Of course, the trade-off is that BigRep isn’t exactly a desktop rig: it weighs in at around 240 kilograms and measures around half a meter high and wide. In other words, this is something you’re going to want to set up in your garage or basement; I highly doubt it’d be feasible to set it up in your office. Alright, so we’ve established that this thing is basically the Big Bertha of 3D printers…but what can it do?...

The Black Diamond Knife Block and its accompanying precision blades are a product of Edge of Belgravia. This company produces fine cutlery and kitchenware for modern cooks, but their focus isn’t only on the performance of these products. Knife blocks are a permanent staple of the kitchen counter, one of the few items that is always in view to both the chef and a kitchen’s guests. This makes the aesthetic design of a knife block pretty important....

We’re hopelessly enamored with vintage BMW motorcycles. The 1937 BMW R7 may just be the most beautiful motorcycle ever built, and the late 60s BMW R69S might just be our dream bike. This week, the web’s best motorcycle archivists at Bike Exif shared the Blitz Motorcycles 1963 BMW R60/2, a murdered-out take on a vintage Beemer classic. This mostly original 1963 speedster has been bathed in matte black from head-to-toe, including a high temp black paint on the original R60/2 engine....

BMW 328 Hommage Concept Gallery

Book Mountain isn’t designed to be just a library, it’s also the center of a new neighborhood concept. It is part of a larger campus that includes 42 social housing units, parks, retail and office spaces. The Book Mountain library is an attraction in and of itself, something to bring in the local public to explore this one-of-a-kind temple of the written word. It’s an exciting development, one that we’d place up there with what we consider to be the most beautiful book store in the world, the Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in nearby Maastricht....

Next to subway cars, alley walls and abandoned buildings, the skateboard deck is the canvas of choice for many of today’s graffiti-minded urban artists. Showing his respect to the culture, designer Emilio Garcia created this series of Brain Pattern Skateboard Decks for tomorrow’s rising skateboard athletes. Garcia’s series spans four colors from gold to black, pink and platinum– a fresh collection of decks with a character that will set you apart from the other boarders around your local skatepark or city street....

Ken Brown’s Classic Cars Gallery

Though those guides are brilliantly helpful and all you need to be a perfectly fine man, we decided to also help you take your shirt game to the top tier by explaining everything you could ever hope to want to know about the cornerstone of a true gentleman’s closet, the OCBD – Oxford Cloth Button-Down. The Inception of the OCBD The initial button-down collar was adopted by polo players in India who needed a way to look semi-formal while keeping their collars from flapping in their faces while they horsed around....

This month, Gilt Man invited TheCoolist to tour its Brooklyn warehouse and to sit behind-the-scenes at a Gilt sale photo shoot. We shared our experience on what makes Gilt Groupe tick, but there’s another story about what we at TheCoolist have in our own Gilt shopping cart. Today just happens to be Cyber Monday, the busiest day in online retail. To kick off this week, we’re sharing the items we saw at Gilt this month that had us drooling, and will likely have you and your loved ones drooling as well....