Potentially the sole gadget able to make bearable the act of drinking tinned beer (or, nightmare of nightmares, pre-mix spirits) is this cute drinking can vending machine – the Drink-O-Matic.

With the saccharine goodness of its Happy Days 50s styling, it can bring that chrome, vintage feel right into the alcoholic haze of your here-and-now.

And using the vending machine metaphor to serve you products you’ve already purchased gives the Drink-O-Matic a warm, funny feeling of camp consumerism.

For $150, it holds 10 cans at 30F degrees cooler than the surrounding environment. And it’s damn cute.

Drink-O-Matic Refrigerated 10-Can Dispensing Machine [The Sharper Image via Uncrate]

Okay, so we’re just a little excited about Casino Royale. So much so that it seems we’re pouncing on every little product tie-in.

But this is something special, we swear. Italian sunglasses veterans Persol have released a limited edition of 200 Casino Royale-themed, tortoise-framed, green-lensed beauties, as worn in the film.

They come with the 007 logo printed on the temple, inside a 007 embossed case, which in turn arrives in a Casino Royale-branded box. Just to nail the association home.

Supposedly available only in the US. But, like, you can get everything online these days, so no biggie.

Persol [via Sybarites]

Just to look at this watch is to realize its beauty. This latest Fossil creation from Philippe Starck is his sleekest and simplest yet. And also the most difficult to read (to the uninitiated).

Around the cut-out centre circle, the current hour is displayed with a simple numeral, while dark segments moving around the watch face denote the minute. There are no visible knobs or buttons and the band is sleek, smooth PU.

We quite like it, and not just for its astonishing $110 price tag.

O-Ring Digi [Fossil via Gizmodo, via Slash Gear, via Moco Loco, via Storm from the East] (These link trails are getting ridiculous…)

If you’re still playing golf after sundown, it means one of two things:

• You’ve been playing for far too long; or
• You’re so obsessed, you’ll do it anywhere, anytime

Either way, we think you should give up golf and re-asses things.

If you insist, however, at least it seems you’re not alone and golf-mad Australia, even with all its sun, feels your pain. So to save you time hunting through long grass in the dark, some Aussies built some of these (possibly annoying) flashing golf balls.

They’ll stay illuminated for about five minutes after being struck, and will last around 900 whacks.

And may God have mercy on your poor, golf-hungry soul.

Twilight Tracer Golf Balls [Latest Buy via New Launches, via Oh Gizmo!, via Coolest Gadgets…]

It’s all well and good to chase the career of your dreams. But if all you dream about is being obscenely wealthy, it’s hard to tell your guidance counselor, “I wanna grow up to be a rich guy, and I don’t care how”.

So this list of the USA’s highest-paying jobs steps in when everyone else’s greed detectors kick into gear. Although poorly researched, mistake-riddled and possibly even completely made up, it gives a good snapshot of how much more everyone else is making than you.

The list is full of surprises, too. Doctors and pilots make lots of money – who’d have thought? Dentists are worth more than IT managers – quelle surprise! Prison guards don’t need to finish High School – wonders never cease.

Highest paying jobs in the U.S. [Jaslabs via Luxury Launches]

Two weeks ago we talked you through the hows and whys of scarf wearing.

Now here’s the scarf to do it with. And you shouldn’t need much convincing.

It’s 100% Cashmere. It’s knitted in a quirky, classic, black plaid. It’s $88 and it’s the one thing you can’t afford to face your next winter without.

Cashmere plaid scarf [Banana Republic via Product Dose]

Some brands are forever. Ray Ban, Levi’s, Mercedes Benz – all making products that retain the same style now as they did half a century ago.

Other brands, however, have dated so hideously that all the logo changes and new products in the world are unlikely to restore their faded glory. Like Old Spice.

And yet, the aftershave so beloved by nautically-excited old men everywhere has reinvented itself as OS Signature. Claimed to be ‘new and improved’, the rebranding is so dramatic and foreign that it almost counts as deceptive marketing.

Imagine the horror of young men the world over this Christmas when, after receiving a funky, fresh cologne from ignorant, well-meaning grandparents, they apply it only to smell identical to their septuagenarian gift-givers…

OS Signature [via Ask Men]

Despite their soccer team admirably making the second round at Germany 2006, and their recent dominance of ice hockey, the Swedish are somehow unsatisfied by traditional physical pursuits and have decided to invent their own.

Like pulling a car with one’s penis.

If you thought Swedish film was weird, here is a glimpse into the kind of thing that makes it onto Swedish television.

And there’s more to come. After mastering the penis pulls one car trick, our hero aspires to next attempt two cars.

Forget pure strength, we want endurance. We implore you Sweden, can you give us a long distance event?

(And what’s with the Toyota? No Volvos or Saabs about?)

Han drar bilen med snoppen [Aftonbladet TV via Jalopnik] (surprisingly work-safe)

With the northern winter nigh, so cometh sweater season. And few are doing fitted sweaters this winter as cool as Ted Baker.

Taking traditional styles and adding quirky modern twists here and there, the Glasgow-born label run the full gamut of men’s knitwear from vests and polos to cardigans and v-necks, and everything in between.

The colors and cuts are classic and should last many a winter.

And everyone needs more knitwear. It’s a fact.

Ted Baker » Knitwear [via Ask Men]

This could easily shrugged off as a cheesy novelty gadget, the like of which swamp the ‘net.

The Motorized Cooler, however, is more expensive than some second-hand cars, and more customizable than most new ones.

Handmade, available in six different colors (including two shades of green) and running on a Subaru Robin, optional extras include spoilers, off-road wheels, cargo racks and trailers. Oh, and a cup holder.

This isn’t just a cooler on wheels, it’s a $2000 drink-driving death machine.

Motorized Cooler [Baron Bob via Red Ferret]