Welcome to the summer solstice edition of News Nirvana! With the longest day of the year coming up on June 21st, what better way to celebrate the summer solstice than with a handful of new tools and accessories from DeWalt, Metabo, SureFire, Klein and Festool? Go outdoors and enjoy the longest day of the year and create your own awesome DIY project, because for most of us, summer is all too short. Read on for the latest gear for your summer shopping list. Read More
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SureFire Sonic Defenders – Ultra Smart Earplugs
If you’re young, carefree and don’t appreciate the value of your hearing, you might want to spend some time talking to (shouting at) a grandparent who’s hard of hearing. Or, better yet, talk to someone in their 40’s who has trouble hearing because they spent too much time at Bon Jovi concerts, or working with power tools and weren’t aware of the importance of hearing protection. I definitely have valued my hearing in recent years, but I also hate most earplug options. The earplugs with little rubber flanges always slip out resulting in a NRR rating of zero, and the foam plugs you roll up and let expand in your ears leave me feeling like I’m entombed in my own head and oblivious to human interaction. I have used a lot of different earplugs, but over the last year I’ve been testing what I feel might be the best accessible and affordable earplug solution on the market, the SureFire Sonic Defenders. Read More