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Flipping through The Manual: How to wash your 501’s, Outdoor gear guide, and more

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Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

Levi’s teaches us the proper way to wash jeans (or not)

Levi’s teaches us the proper way to wash jeans (or not)
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Fresh water is scarce these days. We recommend you soak up Levi’s earth-friendly tips on how to wash jeans (or not).

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Take a seat: The Langhorne Stool

Take a seat: The Langhorne Stool
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Revisit is a brand that creates products that are inspired by stories and places.

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Trekking: The summer 2015 outdoor gear guide

Trekking: The summer 2015 outdoor gear guide
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Frankly, summer is a time best spent outdoors. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite pieces of gear, from sleeping bags and utility axes to headlamps and torso-forming backpacks, so you can spend less time mulling over the right equipment.

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Party like it’s 1933? Check out “the best cocktail shaker since prohibition”

Party like it’s 1933? Check out “the best cocktail shaker since prohibition”
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Get in on the ground floor of this Kickstarter campaign and up your cocktail game with this innovative yet old school tool.

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Micro guide: Lynchburg, Virginia

Micro guide: Lynchburg, Virginia
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Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the James River, Lynchburg is known as the hill city.

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If the shoe fits, hit the trail! With great trail running shoes, of course

If the shoe fits, hit the trail! With great trail running shoes, of course
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A great trail running shoe is sturdy, supportive, and ready for an all-terrain experience.

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Just like you probably enjoy getting to choose your own path in real life, you want to have the same freedom in your favorite video game. Open-world games like The Division 2 have only continued to grow in popularity since their release. 

While this genre of gaming can be a little intimidating for anyone without tons of experience in gaming, there are plenty of great open-world games to chose from. Ranging from first-person shooter games to RPGs and action-adventure titles, our list will have something for everyone.

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HDR, or High Dynamic Range, is a TV spec you've undoubtedly seen in your TV's settings or while shopping for a new TV, and we're willing to bet that if you're here, you're wondering what the heck HDR is. HDR can be found in pretty much all of today's best TVs, from 8K to 4K to HDTVs, and in TVs across a wide range of price points -- HDR has become standard in most new mid-range and high-end televisions.

But what is it? When viewing TV, movies, video games, sports, or other content displayed in HDR, an HDR-capable TV will deliver extra-brilliant brightness levels, ultra-rich colors, an expanded color palette, and higher contrast.

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