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Add more luxury to your EDC with the Connoisseur collection from This Is Ground


This Is Ground is known for leather carry accessories that are handmade in Los Angeles, California. The new Connoisseur collection introduces updated designs wrapped in a new series of luxurious Italian leathers.

This Is Ground’s product line offers a unique take on refined small-carry items and modular folios that can be customized based on your specific needs. As we have reviewed here at The Gadgeteer, their reputation is well-deserved for quality construction and beautiful materials. The new collection focuses on leathers from their Italian tannery in warm brown tones called Nutmeg (a medium brown), Mole (a dark brown), and Amaranth (a lighter tan). 

As with previous products, This Is Ground collections they exude high-end style, and should only look better with age.

The lineup includes the updated Mod folio for your tablet & essentials ($450), an Apple Watch band ($115), a basic zippered wallet ($99), a phone wallet ($130), and an assortment of cases for accessories ($20-$129, depending on the item). If you’re looking to add a bit of style to your carry collection, check out the Connoisseur collection here.

 

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Add more luxury to your EDC with the Connoisseur collection from This Is Ground originally appeared on on April 28, 2017 at 7:03 am.

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This T-Rex lunchbox will make you the most popular paleontologist ever!


Dinosaur loving kids and adults alike will be the envy of every geek in the cafeteria when they in with this T-Rex head lunchbox. The Dino Case is designed like the world’s most popular but extinct reptile, the Tyrannosaurus rex. By the way, did you know that rex means king in Latin? Now you do!

The lunchbox has a functioning jaw that opens to reveal your favorite lunch time yummies.

The carrying handle for the Dino Case mimics a muzzle because roarrrrrrrr! For more info head over to Suck UK and Amazon which is selling the Dino Case for $35 at the end of June.

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This T-Rex lunchbox will make you the most popular paleontologist ever! originally appeared on on April 27, 2017 at 9:52 am.

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SOG introduces a pen-shaped multi-tool with pliers


The word “multi-tool” has become a household term since Leatherman marketed the original PST, Pocket Survival Tool, in 1983. I bought my first one in 1984 to replace a backpack full of tools that were required to bring to all of my engineering labs, making for a very heavy backpack. Since then, multi-tools have become ubiquitous, available virtually everywhere from big-box stores to the smallest gas station. 

The basic premise of the multi-tool has remained largely unchanged, compromising of a plier’s head and multiple implements that could be folded into parallel handles…. until now.

SOG Knives has now introduced a major innovation in multi-tools with their Baton Series. Currently, most multi-tools house the pliers in handle recesses, but not The Baton. This tool places the “parked” implements into a linear package, shaped like a bulky pen that pulls towards each end and folds, deploying the pliers (or scissors). This design should appeal to many who want the convenience, utility, and security of carrying of a multi-tool without the bulk. Clearly, an elegant solution when less tactical attire dictates.

SOG has been a major player in the multi-tool market since 1986. I’ve had the pleasure of owning and extensively using several of their tools over the past few decades and I look forward to getting my hands on a SOG Baton Q4 which will retail for $120. Anticipated release is June 2017.

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SOG introduces a pen-shaped multi-tool with pliers originally appeared on on April 27, 2017 at 6:39 am.

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SAFEGO is a lock box for your valuables


We travel to Florida once a year and our favorite activity when we’re there is to relax on the beach under an umbrella. When we need a break from all that relaxing, we like to walk along the surf soaking up the sun and looking for shells. Sounds perfect right? It is except that I’m usually a little nervous that someone is going to steal our stuff while we’re away from our beach chairs. 

Sure, we could wear a bag and put our valuables in it while we were walking, but that just sounds cumbersome, especially when you’re bending over to pick up a shell every few feet. Another possible solution is the SAFEGO Portable Safe.

The SAFEGO is made of high impact ABS plastic with a keyed lock and a built-in custom 3-digita combination lock that secures a 6mm heavy-duty steel cable. The cable can wrap around the frame of a beach chair or any other object.

The water and sand resistant 7″ x 4″ x 7.5″ compartment is large enough to hold phones, money, credit cards, passports, etc. There’s even a pass-through that you can use to route your headphone cord from a device inside the SAFEGO or route a cable from a backup battery stored inside the SAFEGO to your device on the outside.

The SAFEGO Portable Safe is priced at $39.00 and is available in black, white, blue, pink or gold at safego.us and Amazon.

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SAFEGO is a lock box for your valuables originally appeared on on April 26, 2017 at 10:16 am.

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First you could buy them faded, then ripped, and now covered in mud. Wait, what?!


In a new series that I’m going to call “Wait, what?!”, comes PRPS Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans. Jeans, who cares right? But wait a sec… These are no ordinary jeans Gadgeteers. These jeans are covered in mud and have a price tag of $425 a pair! Nordstrom describes them as “Americana workwear that’s seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you’re not afraid to get down and dirty.”

And that’s where the “wait, what?!” comes in. Have we degraded into a society that has to pay for dirty clothes to give us the appearance of being hard workers?

The traditionally styled 5 pocket jeans are made of 100% cotton and are machine washable which makes me say it again… wait, what?! So you buy a pair of muddy jeans for $425, but you can wash them? Is it really April 1st, because this can’t be for real. But sadly, it apparently, it is. We’re doomed as a species. If you’re not distressed about this (pun intended), head over to Norstrom for more info.

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First you could buy them faded, then ripped, and now covered in mud. Wait, what?! originally appeared on on April 26, 2017 at 7:14 am.

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