2013 Snowboard Gear

A short guide to what's kept us warm, dry and in touch this season

While it may not entirely feel like it in certain cities, winter is in full swing, dumping snow in many regions and offering temps low enough to fire up the snow guns in others. After introducing the Nitro T1.5 and ThirtyTwo + Crab Grab collaboration earlier this week we’ve pulled together four more pieces of gear that have been keeping us warm, dry and safe …

The Last Laugh

Morbid wristwatches for those short on time

Take a bite out of death with “The Last Laugh,” a pair of watches from Mr. Jones that sport hour and minute readouts on the bare teeth of human skulls. The hour marking on the upper teeth uses a “jump hour” feature that flips the time over on the hour while the minutes cycle clockwise below, a capability that is especially impressive considering that the …

Mike Årsjö

The Swedish jewelry designer takes a shine to aluminum and the lost art of chainmail

There’s nothing like a good back story to add extra depth to the work of an already gleamingly creative artisan, like that of jewelry designer Mike Årsjö. Tapped as one of the top new innovators from a hotbed of Nordics, Årsjö was born in Puerto Montt, Chile and then brought to Sweden by adoptive missionaries working in Papua New Giuinea. The tribe in which Årsjö …