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Michael Lorsung, Transmedia Artist
Our guest this week is Michael Lorsung. Michael is a transmedia artist based in Snowmass Village, Colorado. He is a practicing artist, tinkerer, and experimenter who also works full time managing the...
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The Book of Genesis Illustrated
As literature, the biblical book of Genesis has it all: sex, violence, angels, war, murder, heroes, incest, world-wide disasters, spooky mystery, and a timeless story. All it needed was illustrations...
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Cool Tools 2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Mark’s picks
The editors of Cool Tools have curated a number of gift suggestions selected from the pages of Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (which itself makes a great gift), and from the website. This week:...
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Recomendo Announcement
Every week for the past two years we briefly recommend 6 things to our friends. Sometimes we suggest tools, but most items aren’t tools. Rather we recommend stuff such as our favorite places to visit,...
View ArticleTheReviewIndex/Workflow music/Muscle map
Summarize Amazon reviews TheReviewIndex finds recurring patterns in Amazon Reviews and then makes sense of it for you. It displays positive/negative ratings for things like “ease of use,” “quality,”...
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Gerber Pocket Sharpener
Spyderco’s previously reviewed Sharpmaker is my edge maintenance tool of choice, but there’s no room for it in my grab-and-go bag. I searched around and found a number of pen-sized, high-quality knife...
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Ultrapod
For years I used a PedCo Ultrapod II ($18), which I bought at REI in San Francisco. At the time it was an REI-branded version; it survived years of being mounted on a motorcycle and many trips abroad...
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The Art of Game Design
This is by far the best guide ever written for designing games. All kinds of games, simple and traditional, but of course video games, too. This fat book is packed with practical, comprehensive,...
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Rapid Reel
This is a heavy-duty cast aluminum garden hose reel. It costs about twice as much as the plastic reel I replaced and is at least four times the quality and longevity. The materials used are thick cast...
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Perplexus
This is a cool 3-dimensional maze that is easy to get started and hard to finish. You need to steer a small metal ball along an ingenious obstacle course by rotating the clear plastic globe. There are...
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Cool Tools 2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Top Sellers of 2018
The editors of Cool Tools have curated a number of gift suggestions selected from the pages of Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (which itself makes a great gift), and from the website. This week:...
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Anne Briggs, Anne of All Trades
Our guest this week is Anne Briggs. Anne grew up on Montana and spent a lot of her young life abroad because her parents are missionaries. She majored in Chinese and Business hoping to become an...
View ArticleRecomendo book/Art of Noticing/Waste some time
Recomendo book This may be the coolest and most meta recommendation we’ve made yet: the best of Recomendo is now available as an inexpensive book on Amazon. We gathered the best 550 recomendos from...
View ArticleBullseye Bubble Level
One of the most ingenious (and simple!) tools ever devised by man–purely in my personal opinion, of course — is the Bullseye Bubble Level ($3), or what I call a 2-axis bubble level. This tool is used...
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Cool Tools 2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Claudia’s picks
The editors of Cool Tools have curated a number of gift suggestions selected from the pages of Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (which itself makes a great gift), and from the website. This week:...
View ArticleOXO Good Grips LiquiSeal Travel Mug
I have used an OXO LiquiSeal mug ($22) for my tea for the last 11 years. My favorite thing about it is that the shape of the top allows the tea to pool briefly at your lips, so that you can smell it...
View ArticlePlease support Cool Tools podcasts and videos
When Kevin started Cool Tools as an email list over 20 years ago, his goal was to foster a community of people who wanted to share recommendations of tried-and-true tools. It worked! Today Cool Tools...
View Article2-in-1 Interchangeable Rapi-Driv Screwdriver
This Rapi-Driv Screwdriver ($14) from Klein Tools is for working on screws that are easy to damage if you apply to much torque. The shaft freely rotates in the handle and by applying rotation to the...
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Cool Tools 2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Best Kits
The editors of Cool Tools have curated a number of gift suggestions selected from the pages of Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (which itself makes a great gift), and from the website. This week:...
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Gever Tulley, Founder of Tinkering School
Our guest this week is Gever Tulley. Gever is founder of Tinkering School, an internationally famous summer camp where kids build amazing things from rollercoasters to wind-powered trains. He is also...
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