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  • How does a watch guy fall for the Apple Watch?

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    When I reviewed the series 4 Apple Watch a few weeks ago I was somewhat disparaging about certain aspects. The battery life was a big downside for me, but perhaps more than anything the fact it is not a ‘real’… Read More ›

  • Sinatra and Kennedy

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    The sequence of events seems essentially right, except for the quaint idea that Bobby—or anybody else who read a newspaper or gossip column over the previous twenty years—was unaware of Sinatra’s fraternizing with the Mob. If Frank’s fondness for gangsters… Read More ›

  • ANICORN × NASA

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    Edition number (No. 1-60) of each watch will be marked on the watch movement and also a metal plate which is unique to this collaboration. The full package includes a mechanical timepiece with Cerakote Ceramic Coatings, white textile strap (with… Read More ›

  • It keeps hitting you…

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    It hits you. It keeps hitting you. You don’t know when it’ll end, because there’s some things you simply cannot prepare for. A loved one dies. A loved one dies suddenly. A loved one dies tragically. You might feel numb…. Read More ›

  • £339 or £12 for an Apple Watch Strap: you decide

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    I love well made products and will gladly pay for a quality brand that will last me for many years, but there are moments when the price gap is just too much. There is little doubt in my mind that… Read More ›

  • Iconix

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    Iconix is a comprehensive collection of iconic product design objects, chronologically organized from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present. Each spread of this richly illustrated book showcases the author’s representation of the chosen design, expressing its essence… Read More ›

  • The 2018 iPad Pros

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    “These iPad Pros aren’t cheap. Throw in a $179 Smart Keyboard Folio and $129 Apple Pencil and even the $799 base model will run you over $1,100 all told. (The 12.9-inch Smart Keyboard Folio is $199.) But these aren’t “just… Read More ›

  • How to be right

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    In the bestselling How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do,… Read More ›

  • Bohemian Rhapsody (film) thoughts

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    As you know, Queen are the best band that ever lived. They are better than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and even Boyzone… When I was 11 I was playing snooker round a friend’s house and he asked… Read More ›

  • The office of the future?

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    An extension of the same thinking that gave the Pacific chair a more welcoming look and feel, Soft Work puts the same premium on a casual aesthetic to suggest a lifestyle in which work and relaxation aren’t at polar odds,… Read More ›