On a cruise up the Alaskan coast to Denali National Park earlier this year, I made the critical, rookie mistake of not packing the means to make good coffee. Don’t let it happen to you.

The bar we generally use for a very good deal on a tool set is roughly $.50 per tool, so when you can get a 210-piece set for $75, you should jump at the opportunity.

Conceal your booze or just safely bring some liquid camping thanks to this huge Stanley water bottle and flask sale from Amazon. This style has been around for over 100 years and for good reason. The vacuum-sealed steel design basically started the craze of finding the best place to put hot or cold liquids and keep…

You can head out into the wilderness for a week of camping with nothing but a love of nature and your outdoor skills, but that's no way to spend a vacation. There's nothing wrong with bringing a few creature comforts along, so Stanley has created a Thermos that disassembles into a pot for boiling water and a french…

Stanley Works has been making hand tools in New Britain, Connecticut, since the middle of the 19th century. Some time in the 20th, the company came up with this terrible screwdriver. It has a handle with rigid, jagged plastic edges that gouge your palms at every inch-pound of torque. Yet the handle is somehow always…

It's more than one! There're also sockets for wrenches too, in this massive Stanley tool-case that's been done over in luxuriously-sharp black chrome. It's only $87 over at Amazon. [Amazon via Werd]

For years only deep fryers and Apple laptops have had breakaway cords. Stanley's new Safety Socket adds breakaway protection to anything with a power plug. Expect it within the month for something like twenty bucks. [StanleyTools.com]

Anyone who's had to measure anything with a tape measure knows the annoyance of losing your grip because of that infuriatingly small hook. So why not make the hook bigger? Why did it take so long to think of this?

Joining it's brethren the compass, tape measure and calculator-ruler watch is this flashlight watch. Is it an official Stanley gadget? I dunno. But I still find it inspired: all watches should have built-in LED flashlights.

Ah, Brando. The soft "ping" in my inbox that heralds yet another slice of pedestrian weirdness from everyone's favorite purveyor of odds 'n' sods. And today's offering was no different: a pair of watches from toolmaker Stanley. One sports a 16-position compass, but it's the other one that got me all excited—a…

I have a friend...no, a friend of a friend, who hates CRT monitors, TVs, you name it. If it has a cathode ray tube inside, this "friend" goes rabid and reaches for the nearest power tool to give it a proper decontruction and retirement. The FUBAR by Stanley, is the perfect tool for such a job. It's formed around a…