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Coach returns to its baseball roots with this limited edition, handcrafted billfold, made with leather sourced from vintage baseball gloves. Part of Coach's Baseball Heritage Collection, the billfold adds a dash of sophistication to the rugged, sturdy leather from which it is made, with hand-turned edges and reinforced seams ensuring it'll last another century. The billfold comes stamped and......read more
Created by Paul Cunningham, a longtime Major League Baseball photo editor, the Lemon Ball is a throwback baseball made from premium leather. Based on the original lemon peel style ball from the early 19th Century, the Lemon Ball is a beautiful tribute to an earlier era. Designed to withstand the rigors of outdoor play, the Lemon Ball is perfect for a game of stick ball, baseball, or street ball,......read more
These sporty stools, made from game-day bases used by the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Dodgers, Mets, and Cardinals, make an unusual and awesome gift for the baseball lover. The seat rests on welded steel legs handmade in Berkeley, CA. Comes with signed and numbered certificate of authenticity from MLB. Hit up www.mlb.com to authenticate your seat's corresponding game. ...read more
Globe Bicycles, a stand-alone brand spawned by Specialized, makes freewheel and fixed gear bikes for living in the city. The Daily, Globe's flagship model, is an upright cruiser made from lightweight aluminum, with front and rear fenders and an integrated kickstand mount. Available in mens and womens design, the Daily is perfect for commuting (but too snazzy to be called a commuter)....read more
National Geographic and Globescan teamed up for the third annual Consumer Greendex study, which evaluates the "greenness" of shoppers in various countries around the world. The study monitored 17,000 consumers in 17 countries, taking into account energy use, transportation, food, housing, and knowledge of environmental issues. The end result is a vaguely scientific index of sustainable......read more
Japanese outdoor gear brand Snow Peak has been bringing smart design to the backcountry since 1958. Take, for example, Snow Peak's collapsible Carry-On Chopsticks, a must-have for roaming noodle lovers. Made from recycled baseball bat wood, the wooden ends screw into stainless steel handles that expand to chopsticks to eating length. After use, simple unscrew them and tuck them away in the canvas......read more
Move over, dusty plastic globe, the globe of the future is taking over. According to a Mark Vanhoenacker report at the New York Times, digital globes are becoming better designed and more accessible, bringing limitless educational and entertainment possibilities for places of work, study and play: Until recently, cost and technical limitations have largely confined these modern spheres to......read more
From Mother Nature Network's Jim Motavalli: I’m not a Kennedy—I don’t sail. I get seasick in anything more challenging than a kiddie pool. And yet I’m fascinating by the Vendée Globe, a round-the-world solo yachting race now underway, with the competitors currently battling it out at the halfway point in the Southern Ocean, on the way to a big finish in......read more
Nik Daum came on our radar a while back, and now the ever-on-point team at The Fox Is Black alert us to a new grip of travel photos posted to his site. Based in San Francisco, Daum clearly spends a lot of time on the road, and luckily for us web users, he captures precious travel moments along the way. From sprawling landscapes to close-up encounters with plants and wildlife, Daum snaps a......read more
Derek Vincent Smith, aka Colorado-based electronic musician Pretty Lights, recently dropped this rolling, uplifting new track, "We Must Go On." To mark the release, Smith and his girlfriend, visual artist Krystle Blackburn, put out this video chronicling their travels through 2011. Shot on a pair of Canon 7Ds with about six lenses, the clip documents their ramblings through London,......read more
