I’m like, 90% sure that I could ride a bike without training wheels by the time I was 11 years old. Jordan Romero’s already topped out on Aconcagua in Argentina and now he’s bagged Denali. He’s trying to get the 7 summits as the youngest person, and would take the title from the guy who’s [ more... ]

Those mad scientist geniuses at the Bush White House figured out how to avoid dealing with an EPA report that concludes that greenhouse gases are pollutants—they wouldn’t open the e-mail. Regardless of how you feel about the Bush Administration and its policies, I think we can all agree that this sets a pretty awesome precedent. [ more... ]

You’re a modified car alternator and a few household goods away from charging your handheld electronics and throwing up a “bear siren” at the campsite. This ingenious pico generator provides a modest power supply by diverting water first into a storage tank and then through a gravity feed into a bucket. The water spins a [ more... ]

Why is it that whenever someone tries to develop a new backpack technology, they make their first prototype look like something early astronauts wore in high-altitude space capsule testing? Brightside Design has developed a Rucksack Harness Concept that relies on a pivot in the hips that lets the user move in an unrestricted manner through [ more... ]

If it doesn’t look like you’re waking up after that brutal day of hiking and rainy night, then your friends can just roll you into a grave in this friendly looking coat. The Hilleberg Bivanorak is a $175 jacket that you can wear over your backpack while hiking in the rain and also use as [ more... ]

I haven’t heard a good Dee’s Nuts joke in awhile—in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a good Deez Nutz joke. That’s probably because they don’t exist; they’re like rude, sarcastic Canadians that way. Dznuts is a new chamois creame designed to “protect fragile perineal skin from bacterial and fungal infections.” This is a [ more... ]

  I had different ideas of what futuristic tracking chips would look like back in the 1980s. They lacked these big antennas and battery boxes that come on the Garmin Astro DC 30 GPS—this thing looks more like an FM radio headset from the aforementioned decade. The Astro is used to hunt your untrained dog [ more... ]

The only thing worse than flying around a corner in your car and seeing a bear standing in the middle of the road is doing the same thing on your road bike. And the only thing worse than that is if the bear’s on fire and holding an illegal assault rifle. The 53-year-old biker Tim [ more... ]

The first print magazine dedicated solely to fixed gear bikes launched in London a few days back. So far everything still seems to be going pretty well over on this side of the Hotlantic. It’d be easy to make fun of these people for jumping onto the trend. I mean, I’m sure there was a [ more... ]

The Sigg Spoon would be a great gift for the guy who can’t fold up his knife without nearly severing his little finger. The fork would be okay, too, as long as he put a cork over the tines. It’s hard to imagine a weapon less threatening than a jackknife-spoon, but I bet you could [ more... ]