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wanted to share some links and stories I discovered while catching up on the frequently updated and always well written Two-Heel Drive. Please take a moment of your time to check out Tom Mangan’s blog. I am watching it intently as he is experimenting with changing the focus from general hiking to much […]

As opposed to traditional laces with knots the shoe tightens to fit via a knob on the heel of the shoe. The concept seems very gimmicky and putting them on “trail runners” seems to be tempting Murphy’s Law for a shoe that is intended to take a lot of dirt, water and abuse.

Patrick from Will Blog for Experience has put together a very impressive how-to post on building your own solar charger that is powerful enough to charge a Macbook in five hours (even in Chicago). The post not only details where he ordered the parts but also gives different options, weights and price points. You can […]

The Tic-Tac LED Flashlight was a pretty popular post here at simplehker.com, but I found something even more cool. The shake rechargeable LED Tic-Tac LED Flashlight.

REI is sending out a holiday coupon for $20 off any purchase online or in store good until 12/24.

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Thanks to a tip from out friend Siler from Siler’s Path we can now use our beloved iPods with our gloves on. Yes, the inconvenience of having to remove your glove to make scroll wheel adjustments on your iPods has been solved by Marmont with their iGlove. The iGlove is a liner glove made out […]

Aimless and I just received our free 10 pack of Moo.com Minicards. If you haven’t heard about these from the blog-o-sphere bzz, a upstart company called moo, yes as in a cow, came up with a great idea of printing small half-size business cards with high quality prints on one side any any text you […]

The Michigan based Moosejaw is celebrating a 4th place finish in the annual Ann Arbor Naked Mile run this year with 20% off any one item, in store only. Just stop in and say “I’d like 20% please” and you got it. Moosejaw has physical stores located in Ann Arbor, Grosse Pointe, East Lansing, Birmingham, […]

Just in case you were out-of-the-loop, back at the end of May Nike and Apple announced there partnership and new product line of sports related iPod devices and accessors the biggest being Nike + iPod Sport Kit. This kit consists of a small digital pedometer/accelerometer sensor which connects wirelessly to a small receiver that […]

dvhardware.net does a quick and dirty review of in-car GPS navigation systems giving their opinions on the best economy, full-featured, international, highend, and in-dash models. For a few hundred bucks you can make your next road trip more fun or finding a trail a little bit easier.
Top five GPS Navigation Systems via dvdhardware.net
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