Nooka | Mercury NG | $130
Nooka has been making watches that I haven’t really liked for a while; now they are venturing into making sunglasses that I don’t really like either. I suppose these would be good for fratting it up with your bros sans shirts, but not much else.
Benchmade | 551H2O Orange Griptilian Knife | $125
The thing about knives is that unless you are in a few lines of work—career box opener, professional stabber—you probably never need to carry one… But you’ll quickly notice, if you start carrying one, that you are cutting up shit all the time. Boxes, envelopes, tags, whatever. It’s awesome.
Burberry | Tubular Temple Aviator Sunglasses
These look like a good choice if you are trying to improve your sunglasses game for the summer… The blue model seems perfect for the beach and the BBQ, while the black model—click through to view—seems to be the choice for work, as long as your work could benefit from looking intimidating.
Steve & Co. | Red Elk Belt | ~$80
I feel like stylish people wear belts, and your standard black and brown belts just don’t cut it during the summer. Steve & Co. offers this attractive number at a very reasonable price—thanks to the dollar gaining some strength against the euro—as well as many others in many other styles to keep you looking fresh during the summer.
Baxter of California | 45th Anniversary Blade | $345
I’m posting this for the sole reason that I saw it posted on about a dozen other blogs yesterday. Yes, it looks cool, but are there really people out there shaving with these things? Regular people in their regular lives, not professional barbers? There seems to be a lot of hype about old timey shaving techniques, but I don’t think anyone really uses them, least of all the type of people I suspect read this blog. Am I wrong?
Calypso | Crystal Dock | $200-$350
Do those hobos over at Apple even include a dock with iPhones and iPods anymore? I wouldn’t know because I am stuck with my goofy old LG Voyager VX10000—yes, ten thousand—and have been for years. Regardless, whether you have no dock in the first place or are looking to replace a cheap plastic one, it seems to me that a fat crystal one just might be the winning play.
Jomi Marco and Josep Armengol | Glass Flower Pot
What do I know about plants? Nothing. I bought a plant from IKEA a few months ago and it has been dead for, well, a few months. I like to think I know a thing or two about stuff that looks cool, though. And this flower pot looks pretty cool: Roots are pretty awesome and stuff.
Hagino Mitsunobu | OWL Wine Opener
Güs | Notepad Wallet | $145
I love writing things on notecards, so I want one of these. Badly. But, alas, the same problem I always have with expensive wallets… If I bought it, I wouldn’t have any skrilla to put inside of it.
Dunhill | Driving Gloves | $250
