
The 13 Most Popular Tech Stories of 2018
From hacking your Sonos system to learning how to cut your cell phone bill in half, shopping for headphones to building out the perfect workstation.

From hacking your Sonos system to learning how to cut your cell phone bill in half, shopping for headphones to building out the perfect workstation.
By Gear Patrol

Overexposure to LEDs can knock the body’s circadian rhythm out of sync.
By Emily Singer


This year brought about weird new bottling technology, another crown for the world’s greatest tequila maker and a whole lot of whiskey.
By Gear Patrol

A handful of guides designed for a single purpose: to help you live a better, more considered life.
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From new bikes, helmets and gear to beautiful old classics going up for sale these are some of the best announcements on two wheels to come from 2018.
By Gear Patrol

There’s something to be said about a chewy feature that challenges you to pause and reconsider your disposition on a particular subject — here are ten about the home.
By Gear Patrol


For a trip back in time, and to gain some perspective of what we’ll see in 2019, these were the best audio releases of the 2018.
By Gear Patrol

Is there anything more tantalizing than a sealed bottle of bourbon, an unlit cigar or a fresh pot of coffee?
By Gear Patrol

From J.Crew’s Heritage collection to Outerknown’s S.E.A.
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Hopefully, we’ve done our job to fuel your enthusiastic lust for all things automotive, but at the same time provided enough sound, rational buying advice that your decision isn’t as hard as the next guy’s.
By Gear Patrol

Bolt Threads is the biotech company behind Microsilk, a synthetic spider silk that’s engineered from water, yeast and spider DNA.
By Tucker Bowe


The sixth annual GP100 honors the best products of 2018 in the categories of automotive, tech, style and more.
By Gear Patrol

Addicted to pithy prose though we may be, there’s something to be said for taking an extra few minutes to dive deeper, ponder longer and learn a bit more.
By Gear Patrol

Savor our weekly roundup of gear news with your Saturday morning coffee, or use it to fend off the existential panic of Sunday night — it’s up to you.
By Gear Patrol

There were some hard-to-pin-down concepts, rumors and oddities in the automotive realm in 2018, these are 20 of our favorites.
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These are all the deals you might have missed this week.
By Gear Patrol