This story is part of our end-of-year series This Year in Gear, rounding up the most notable releases of 2021. Best of the Best. It’s not just a cheesy, cult-y ’80s martial arts flick starring Eric ...

The sharpest knives available are made of either steel or ceramic, both of which are man-made materials that must be forged in furnaces under extreme temperatures. Now, researchers have developed a ...

Each year the makers of multi-tools continue to impress us with their creativity and sheer determination to squeeze utmost functionality into easily carried packages. 2021 was another that produced an ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have figured out a simple, affordable method for creating natural wood materials that are 23 times harder than typical woods, according to a new paper ...

I’ve been a fan of Olight’s slim, eminently pocketable flashlights for a while, now. I’ve had an Olight flashlight in my EDC mix for a couple years and its simplicity and toughness make it my go-to. I ...

Variety is the spice of knife. There, I said it. Is that sentence a terribly cheesy pun? Yes. Is it inarguably true? Also, yes. You just have to take a look at the panoply of selections below to see ...