Air Combat: Fighter Pilot Simulator

This is no video game. Climb aboard and settle into the ejection seat and you’ll be amazed. The instrumentation, full immersion audio, throttle & joy stick combine to create this amazing Fighter Pilot Simulator. After you are briefed on your mission and have learned to operate and understand the instrumentation and controls, you will take to the virtual skies. You will then spend time developing your skills in the cockpit before engaging in virtual air to air combat dogfights.

Hands On Scenic Flight

Experience the thrill of taking the controls of a light aircraft during this introductory 30 minute hands on scenic flight over places like Hartford Connecticut. Your experience will begin with a briefing on the techniques and safety aspects of light aircraft flying. Then you’re in the pilot’s seat with a certified flight instructor guiding you every step of the way, from takeoff to landing.

Ride in a NASCAR

A perfect gift for NASCAR fanatics. Experience the thrill of riding along with a professional racecar driver at high speed in a NASCAR Stockcar! For five adrenaline-pumping laps you will ride as a passenger around one of NASCAR’s most exciting tracks like Atlanta Motor Speedway or Darlington Racetrack. Take a deep breath and prepare for the ride of your life as the professional driver hits the gas and whips you around the track for five electrifying laps

Kayaking Tour & Snorkeling Adventure

Explore the beautiful sea cliffs up close and personal as you paddle and enter the water to view the stunning rock reefs. Snorkel in the calm waters and catch a glimpse of sea lions sunning on the rocks nearby while garibaldi and other indigenous fish surround you. Paddle out to the underwater kelp forest, searching for harbor seals, dolphins, and more before returning to the sandy flats to snorkel with the leopard sharks.

Indoor Skydiving

For a guy who always wanted to Skydive but a bit too nervous to jump out of a plane. Indoor skydiving is the perfect solution for him. This amazing indoor adventure begins with a brief training class. Once suited up, you will be escorted into the flight chamber and will take turns flying one-on-one with help from a cerfitied instructor. The flight chamber is a 40 foot high, vertical wind tunnel that simulates the freefall of real skydiving as it produces airspeeds of up to 160 mph.

Rock Climbing Adventure

Learn how to rock climb from certified climbing experts and some have a 4-hour lesson designed for the beginner rock climber and includes short gear and a safety lesson. Once you are familiar with the equipment, expert climbing instructors will teach you basic rock climbing safety, climbing knots, climbing commands, basic top roping techniques, rope management and an overview of the climbing rating system, and of course, get you on a lot of climbs!

Hang Gliding Experience

During this exciting discovery flight you will soar like an eagle along side a Certified Instructor and enjoy a beautiful bird’s eye view of the city. You and your Instructor will be towed to an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet via a special ultra-light aircraft. Once released, you will enjoy a 12 to 20 minutes scenic flight. This is an amazing opportunity to take to the open skies and see what all of the fun is about.

There are hundreds of unique gift baskets made especially for guys that come in all shapes and sizes at very affordable prices. This blog post takes on diferent gift basket ideas suited for your boyfriend. These include:

BBQ/Grilling Gift Basket

The Charcoal Connoisseur is a great brand it’s packed with an army of award-winning gourmet marinades, rubs, sauces, skewers, spices and grilling planks this grilling gift contains enough cooking enhancers to create a summer full of BBQ feasts!

If you want to send a quality gift loaded with quality gourmet grilling items, then look no further than this outstanding collection of grilling gift baskets.

Beer Gift Baskets

This is a fantastic gift basket for any beer lover. Microbrew Beer Bucket Gift Basket™, for instance, have some of the most popular microbrews the world has to offer and paired them with an awesome galvanized bucket! Just add ice and you’ve got an ice-cold 6 pack of great beer.

To accompany these great beers we’ve included some award-winning gourmet snacks perfectly matched to these outstanding beers. Inside you’ll find mixed nuts, pretzels, peanuts, and beef jerky that redefines beef jerky.

Fruit Gift Basket

With something for every guy, it’s no secret why the Orchards Abundance™ is one of the best selling fruit baskets. It starts with fruits fresh from the orchard: red delicious apples, succulent pears and juicy naval oranges.

Then combined with sharp Vermont cheddar cheese, Organic crackers, fresh roasted mixed nuts and chocolate covered cherries! For dessert or fruit dipping, you’ll also find a delectable caramel dip. With this generous offering you have a perfect gift for any occasion!

Coffee Gift Basket

There is no need to travel to enjoy Starbucks coffeehouse experience. Rich, smooth and sweet Caffe Verona, well-balanced House Blend and French Roast ground coffee arrive with Starbucks Drinking Chocolate, Tazo Awake black tea, Calm herbal tea and Zen green tea, Starbucks Selects cashew and mocha roca and an assortment of cookies. Two large Starbucks signature bullet coffee mugs will keep your recipient looking for a coffee break all day long.

Fishing Gift Basket

This Fishing Gift Basket is guaranteed to impress starting with its fly fishing creel basket filled with outstanding gourmet foods and fishing keepsakes.

Some of the thoughtful ingredients used to create this trophy catch range from delicious smoked salmon and crackers, to delicious gourmet snack foods. Also included is the award winning coffee to jumpstart those brisk early mornings and a matching fisherman’s mug. Memorable keepsakes and outstanding foods.

Car Wash Gift Basket

This gift bucket is perfect for the car or bike enthusiast in your life! Inside the indispensable bucket is an essential collection of name brand products like Car Wash by Turtle Wax, a Professional Car Washing Mitt, Micro Fiber All Purpose Auto Cloths, Glass Cleaner with Anti-Fog Wipes by Rain-X, Armor All Interior Spray Protectant, and Shop Towels.

Made with all the brands you can trust, this is one car wash gift their automobile or bike will thank you for!

Men’s Travel Tote Gift Basket

This unique gift basket idea is packed with everything he will need for his trip including a dual zip toiletries bag, avocado hydrating shower gel, a wholesome avocado soap bar with sisal soap lathering bag, and wood body roller massage car.

Also included is Metropolitan Trail Mix and Peanut Butter Pretzel Nuggets, both of which come in especially handy on airplanes, in taxis, and in airports.

The Altec Lansing Octiv Mini is a quite a weird-looking yet classy speaker dock for the iPod and iPhone. Now, he can simultaneously charge his phone and enjoy music anywhere in his house or office. The Octiv Mini is a fun and functional alternative to a standard charger. With minimal space required, he can play your tunes with the clear powerful sound you expect from Altec Lansing. Download the free Alarm Rock app for added functionality.

Key Features:
Charges while you listen
Fits in nearly any space
Add alarm functions with free Alarm Rock app (needs to run on iPhone OS 3.1 or late)
Compatible with all iPhone and iPod models
Listen without interference, shielded for mobile phones

It’s not everyday that I come across a tough as nails, functioning work apron. It’s a great gift idea for guys who are serious about home improvement or work in typically macho environment such as factory workers, sail makers, woodworkers, and construction guys etc.

The primary material is made of heavy weight canvas and designed with 2 chest pockets – one intended for a calculator, the other for a carpenter’s pencil and drafting compass.

Other features include:
Large pouch pocket divided for nails, screws, and various tools with a flap to keep our sawdust and debris
Handmade in Ballard, Washington using all locally sourced materials
Criss-cross harness system with 3/4″ cotton belting

For guys who love to read interesting books and experiment with different beers, CloneBrews is a simple gift for no particular occassion. This book contains over 200 recipes for brewing home versions of popular commercial beers. Home brewers will find everything they need to brew up a batch of their own clone of Magic Hat #9, Ithaca Brown Ale, Moose Drool, or Samuel Adams Boston Ale. And with 200 possibilities to choose from, home brewers will find the perfect taste for every mood and every season.

Revised, updated, and expanded, the second edition of CloneBrews contains 50 new recipes that reflect the current popularity of strongly hopped India pale ales and American pale ales as well as the growing interest in brown ales, imperial beers, English bitters, porters, stouts, wheat beers, and Belgian ales. The new edition also contains expanded and updated mashing guidelines and a complete review of ingredients and materials. All new to the second edition is a Food Pairing feature that recommends the best foods for every beer an indispensable feature for the brewer who also loves to barbecue or cook!

Tested and retested, tasted and retasted, Tess and Mark Szamatulskis recipes are the product of 20 years spent running a successful homebrew supply shop and working with customers to create perfect beer clones. They deliver the flavors that home brewers want, described in clear recipes that every brewer will want to make.

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Wine of the Month Club

The Wine of the Month Club is the perfect gift to impress any wine lover! Each month he’ll get 2 full-sized bottles of hard-to-find, premium wines from award-winning, boutique wineries across the globe.

Every wine delivered has been carefully selected by professional wine tasters who sample hundreds of new wines every year looking for the perfect combination of flavor, rarity and value. Some clubs offer 3, 6, and 12-month clubs and a Wine of the Season Club with new selections each spring, summer, fall and winter.

New York Times Keepsake T-Shirt

Custom-printed reproductions of any front page from The New York Times from September 1851 to the present on a white cotton T-shirt. Geared to mark birthdays, anniversaries and other important life events – this makes a unique and personal gift.

Select your date and have that day’s front page printed on the front of a top quality, white T-shirt. A New York Times “T” will appear on the left sleeve. Wash in cold water for long-time wearing. This item takes 5-7 business days to produce and will ship USPS 1st Class.

Beer Gift Baskets

This beer gift basket is an ideal beer gift that contains a “hat trick” with 3 of the top microbrews available. Inside he’ll find: a Samuel Adams seasonal beer, a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale which is by far America’s most popular Pale Ale, and a bottle Abita Purple Haze – a wheat beer from New Orleans popular beer amongst our crew of seasoned beer tasters.

This Microbrew Beer Bucke also contains carefully selected snacks that complement the beers, like Southwest Trail Mix, Pistachios, and East Shore Pretzels.

Wireless Grilling Thermometer

This remote wireless grill thermometer lets you cook all types of meat to juicy perfection every time: no more hits and misses. Simply insert the stainless steel probe into the center of your meat, choose the type (ham, beef, ground beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, or turkey), and how you would like it cooked. Then clip the wireless meat thermometer to your belt, sit back, relax, and wait for the beep!

This digital meat thermometer also helps you get up close and personal with the built-in LED flashlight.

The Man Can Grooming Products

The Man Can is a great gift for the Manly Fellow in your life. Loaded with 100% all natural shaving and skincare products by The Plum Island Soap Company. No guy can resist the great packaging (an actual gallon paint can) or the products inside.

The Man Can includes: A Bar of Fisherman’s Scrub Soap, Spicy Shave Gel, Bay Rum Oil, Fisherman’s Handbutter, & Really Scratchy Bath Mitt. All of the products are made on a little island in Northern Mass.

Waterproof Shower Radio

This water-resistant radio lets you listen to music and news in the shower—and keep an eye on the time. Start every day with this water-resistant AM/FM shower radio, complete with digital tuner and six station pre-sets. It features big digits, buttons and dials for easier use in the shower or bath, plus an analog clock to help keep you on schedule.

It also has suction cups for wall mounting, plus a lanyard if you prefer to hang it from the shower head. 20-minute auto-shutoff conserves battery life. Uses four C batteries

Nite Light Coaster

This nifty gadget automatically illuminates your glass with the waive of your hand and shuts itself off after a short period of time. You can easily locate a drink of water or other items on your bed side table in the dark.

The soft, ambient LED light makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and navigate safely in the dark without disturbing others, while the 30-second auto shutoff makes it easy to fall back asleep again.

Boogie Board Paperless Writing Tablet

It lets you make lists, draw doodles, jot down thoughts—all without paper or pencil.Amazing tablet lets you write on it with the included stylus, or even your fingernail. Without wasting paper or ink, the Boogie Board displays your notes and thoughts until you decide to erase them. And they erase simply…with the touch of a button.

Boogie Board™ sealed internal battery uses no power until you erase—and lasts for about 50,000 erases! LCD tablet is only 1/8″ thick and is lightweight and portable.

Modern Design Wall Clocks

A good example is Adhesive Numbers Metal Wall Clock, a do-it-yourself clock allows you to create your own one of a kind clock that is creative and unique. Show off your creativity by brining it to your living room! This clock features quartz movement for precision.

The nice thing about the clock is that you can space the numbers farther or closer to the hands depending on the space. If you decorate with sleek lines and modern furniture, this is the perfect accent to any room.

Zeo Personal Sleep Coach

Zeo is designed to help you analyze your sleep and improve it, so you can be your best every day. Zeo tells you how you really sleep, and helps you find ways to improve your sleep. It’s composed of a lightweight wireless headband, a bedside display, a set of analytical online tools, and an email-based personalized coaching program. It will help you understand and minimize the factors that negatively affect sleep, so you can take control of your nights.

Rapid Beverage Chiller

Gadgets like Iceless Wine Chiller is a must-have for wine enthusiasts! Using advanced Peltier thermoelectric technology, this tabletop wine chiller cools or warms wine to the optimal temperature. It’s like having a sommelier in his kitchen!

Today’s well-stocked kitchen deserves an electronic wine chiller! Simply select your wine from the database of 40 wines and this chiller automatically brings your bottle to the recommended temperature to bring out the best possible wine-drinking experience.

Fogless Shower Mirror

The Z850 Fogless Shower Mirror is a must-have for any man who enjoys a close, comfortable shave. The steam and humidity of the shower make it the most ideal place to shave. And with the Zadro fog free shaving mirror, shaving in the shower will forever be quick and easy. The adjustable 1x-5x zoom and LED surround light ensure you don’t miss a spot. Includes suction cups, double-sided tape, and a hanging cord for mounting. Also features a razor holder and clock with date display.

Grooming Set for Guys

A very popular grooming gift for men is Anthony Logistics The Perfect Shave Kit for it provides the closest, smoothest, most refreshing shave ever. Infused with nourishing vitamins, exfoliating glycolic acid, soothing aloe vera, and calming benzocaine, this collection banishes ingrown hairs, irritation, and stubble—leaving your skin healthy and protected. Cleanse, buff, shave, and sooth your skin to its pinnacle of smoothness with Anthony Logistics’ exceptional, all-in-one regimen.

Sorapot Stylish Tea Pot

Tea becomes a framed work of art as leaves gently unfurl while they steep in this contemporary teapot. Sorapot’s architectural shape and simple functionality bring tea’s quiet beauty into sharp focus. Made from 304 stainless steel, borosilicate glass (Pyrex), and food-grade silicone, the Sorapot articulates the ritual of tea making in a thoroughly modern way. Designed by former UncommonGoods copywriter Joey Roth. Assembled and polished by hand.

Stylish Desk Lamp

Arteriors Nome Silver Swing Arm Desk Lamp is a sleek desk lamp that has an adjustable balance arm and lamp head. This stylish lamp is a task light and attractive addition to most interiors.

Use this with your vintage, modern, traditional or transitional decor furnishings at home or office. This striking lamp is a combination of the best of the past and the present.

Kenneth Cole Touch Screen Watch

This cool watch uses its touch screen to provide a clutter-free, minimalistic design, with a stainless steel round case sporting backlight for nighttime viewing, black enamel-coated link band, stainless steel case, view time for 32 cities in the world.

Additional features include alarm clock, backlight for nighttime viewing, water resistant and 38 mm face diameter.

TX Airport Lounge Watches

Incorporating 24 key locations from New York to Dubai, the TX world time watch is the choice of the contemporary international traveler.

One hand accurately displays the time in the selected city while the other indicates the season in that city with a provision for daylight savings time. The programmed 2nd time zone accurately displays perfect time across the world.

Casio G-Shock GA110 Watches

The Big Case watch from G-Shock is a special edition hyper color series watch. This watch was designed and engineered for rough and rugged activities.

This watch is shock and magnetic resistant as well as water resistant up to 200M. Comes with 29 times zones, 4 daily alarms, an hourly alarm function, a countdown timer and an auto calendar. Because it’s a G-Shock, it is shock resistant and built to last a lifetime.

Skagen Men’s Titanium Mesh Watch

Sophisticated yet subtle, the Skagen Men’s Titanium Mesh Watch is perfect for the man who cares about style but prefers to be understated when it comes to his timepiece. The charcoal gray titanium mesh band is complemented by a titanium round bezel.

The simply-styled charcoal gray dial features long, delicate indexes in all of the hour positions and Arabic numbers at six and 12 o’clock. The dial also has slender silver-tone hands. This watch is water resistant to 99 feet (30 M).

DIESEL Time Zone Watch

This is a futuristic, cockpit-like timepiece for the frequent traveler. Sporting a traditional round body, the watch keeps track of time in up to four time zones both digital and analog time, including a digital readout of the time in a specified.

Other features include a sleek leather strap. With buckle closure Approx. band width: 25mm., Approx. case diameter: 65mm., Stainless zteel/leather/mineral crystal.

MP3 Player

Yes, iPod is still the best portable music player out there and comes in different sizes and features. However, it doesn’t mean other MP3 players are not good.

For instance, SanDisk Sansa Clip – a tiny player lets you listen to up to 2000 songs in stunning audio quality and a wide array of outstanding features, including an FM radio, long-life battery, and integrated voice recorder.

iPod Mixing Consoles for Aspiring DJs

The iDJ is a 2–channel mixer that enables mobile DJs and iPod enthusiasts to seamlessly integrate their portable music libraries with other music, video and sound reinforcement systems—transforming the iPod from a personal music player into a source playback device.

The iDJ’s compact form factor, comprehensive feature set, and onboard controls allow you to manipulate content on the iPod while never leaving the mixer control surface (3rd generation iPods and later only).

Home Audio System for iPod

iHome’s new iP1 Studio Series audio system boasts cutting-edge digital audio reproduction and industrial design, the iP1 has a highly efficient 4-Channel amplifier and delivers audio the way the artist intended it to sound, through its 4-inch honeycomb woofers and 1-inch silk dome tweeters. Enjoy restored harmonics, increased clarity and deep bass.

Music Video Games and Accessories

The ever increasing popularity of music-related video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band will help him enjoy music in an entirely different level. Rock Band is a music video game that allows up to four players to simulate the performance of popular rock music songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments.

Players can play the lead guitar, bass guitar, and drums parts to songs with “instrument controllers”, as well as sing through a USB microphone.

Recycled Vinyl LP Record Bowl

Designer Jeff Davis has put a new spin on recycling by rescuing vinyl records and creating them into fascinating works of functional art. Yes, these unbelievable bowls are made from actual 12″ vinyl records! Perfect for dry snacks, upbeat decoration, or the avid collector, these sturdy bowls have the original label intact and protected with a clear mylar seal.

Thermal Printers for Custom CD Designs

The DYMO(R) DiscPainter is “A New Spin On Disc Printing that leaves a lasting impression. The DiscPainter prints on the printable surface of CDs, DVDs and mini discs.

Unlike any other disc printing, you don’t have to compromise. You get quality and speed with dedicated disc printing and patented technology.

The Godfather Family Album

As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of their most memorable performances.

Gathered together for the first time in this book are Schapiro’s finest photographs from all three Godfather films, lovingly reproduced from the original negatives. With contextual essays and interviews covering the trilogy in its entirety, this book contains over 400 color and black & white images.

1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You

The world is a frightening place. If the information in this book scares the sh*t out of you, good. You’re probably reading it on the crapper, anyway, and what better place to be scared sh*tless? Isn’t that the idea, to be sh*tless?

From the sneaky fish that can swim up our genitals to the e coli bacteria lurking in the very water we drink, disturbing phenomena are everywhere we turn. Educational, entertaining, and undeniably horrifying, this book isn’t guaranteed to help you go to the bathroom, but it’s certain to make your time there more memorable.

Other People’s Rejection Letters

Welcome to the rejection-letter hall of fame, where the hopes and dreams of celebrities (Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, among others) are crushed alongside the aspirations of the rest of us. You’ll find handwritten notes from former lovers, nasty e-mails from would-be bosses, heated texts, crayon scrawlings, and surprising dismissals from Playboy, Disney, even the pope.

And while rejection’s sting is painful, it is not lethal; here, you’ll see that one of the great universals is not only people’s desire for acceptance but also their ability to persevere

Why Didn’t I Think of That?

This book proves not all successful inventions are the greatest thing since sliced bread (not even sliced bread, which is literally just a precut loaf for lazy loafs).

This humorous guide to “mind-blowing” inventions deconstructs just how complex these can’t-live-without necessities really are, while providing some insightful(ly funny) lessons to future inventors, such as: Yo-yos: Deadly weapons do make great kids’toys and Soccer: Boredom is the stepmother of invention.

Cowboy: The Ultimate Guide to Living Like a Great American Icon

This is the first book to explore, through a pop-culture lens, the many facets of the cowboy life. This book entertains and educates with an insider’s look at topics such as ranching, rodeos, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, country and western dancing, and most important, the cowboy spirit.

Cowboy includes instructions, recipes, profiles, photographs, and trivia that vividly depict the day-in, day-out rituals of this iconic lifestyle and show what it meant to be a cowboy in frontier days, and what it means to be a cowboy today!

Star Wars: The Complete Vader

This is the definitive book on the history, myth, and cultural impact of Darth Vader. From his early development in the first Star Wars film by George Lucas, to the new legends created in comics, videogames, and novels, to his ongoing appearances on everything from television commercials to bedspreads, Vader presents a complete view in all his incarnations as the Dark Lord of the Sith.

With exclusive interviews and photographs from the Lucasfilm Archives. Interactive reproductions of rare memorabilia fire the imagination and never-seen-before images explore the world’s endless fascination with Darth Vader