Oliberté was founded in 2009 “with the concept of building premium outdoor leather shoes by quality crafts people resulting in creating sustainable jobs.” This idea is very simple and powerful: Trade not aid. Check out the website and you’ll see the wide variety of casual shoes and other leather products available from this brand made in Ethiopia.

They sent us a pair of the Narivo in Brown-Yellow Pullup casual men’s loafer to try out and we were very impressed with the quality and craftsmanship. The brown shoe is pictured above and you can see that it would be perfect with jeans or slacks and for all sorts of casual settings. The high quality leather is very soft, and the classic design also has a modern twist with the lighter colored soles. This pair comes in grey, tan and green as well.

Here are the specs for this pair that retails for $130:

• Traditional stitch-down stitching around base
• Premium brown/yellow pullup leather upper
• 100% goat leather dark brown lining
• Vegetable tanned leather midsole
• Natural crepe rubber outsole with wedge
• 3mm dark brown round leather cord laces

If you browse the website you’ll also see a wide variety of beautiful leather bags as well. When it comes to quality and design, we’re confident you’ll be happy with products from Oliberté, and with Father’s Day coming up soon, you can find some excellent gift ideas as well.

I love my iPad and tablets in general. The ability to watch TV shows or movies on planes or while I’m working out on the treadmill is one of the best tech developments I can think of. Tablets offer maximum flexibility to enjoy content, and now we have a gadget accessory that makes it even easier to use your tablet.

The Monkey Kit available at BiteMyApple.co is a great accessory for anyone who uses their tablet or even their smart phone often, whether at home or in places like the gym. The flexible arm lets you set up your tablet almost anywhere, and it easily attaches to the back of your tablet. You can also just leave the spherical portion of you want to rest your tablet on your desk or table with slight elevation.

Basically, the Monkey Kit holds your tablet so you don’t have to. Holding the tablet is probably the only complaint you’ll ever hear, so this gadget can make things even easier for you. Also, with Father’s Day coming up, it offers a cool and unique gift idea as well.

After trying Thor last year, we had the opportunity to check out the latest release for Highland Park’s Valhalla Collection, a set of four unique whiskies taking inspiration from the Nordic gods of old.

Loki is a 15-year old single malt Scotch that will definitely grab your attention. This creation is not for the faint of heart, as it was inspired by the “unpredictable, shape-shifting Loki character.” This Scotch was matured in both Spanish cherry casks along with heavily peated casks, so the result is a whisky with a very smoky punch. The taste is very complex and whisky aficionados will definitely want to try this one out.

It comes in the spectacular packaging you can see in the photo above, so this makes for a great gift idea with Father’s Day coming up. It’s not cheap at $249 but for the right dad Loki can help you mark a memorable Father’s Day.

We’ve reviewed many headphones over the past several years as the popularity of mobile music continues to explode and more consumers look at their headphones as a fashion statement along with being a necessary gadget. We’ve seen many fashionable designs and impressive-sounding headphones, but the NuForce HP-800 headphones stand out for sound quality. That shouldn’t be surprising, as these headphones were designed for the audio enthusiasts. The sound quality was incredibly clear but never harsh. You can pick up various all of the nuances while really feeling the full base. The goal was to capture the “natural warmth, realistic highs and visceral bass” of the recordings and we feel that has been achieved.

These over-ear headphones are very large and comfortable, with ear cups made with a “human-protein” leatherette covering that is super-soft. It comes with a handy clothe carrying case along with one cord for you portable electronics and another for studio use. Yes, audiophiles can use this with premium audio or studio equipment and be very impressed with the sound quality.

Specifications include:

Driver Size: 40mm
Impedance: 32 +/- 15% Ohm
Frequency Response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz
Rated Power: 20 mW
Max. Input Power: 30 mW
Sensitivity: 91 +/- 4 dB
Included Accessories: One carrying bag, one 3.5mm plug cable, one 6.3mm plug cable

The bar was set high for these headphones, and the goal was met while keeping the MSRP at a very affordable $149. If you love music that sounds great then you have to check these out, and they make the perfect gift for Father’s Day as well.

This portable electric shaver from ShaveTech is one of the more unique and interesting products we’ve reviewed in a while. It’s a USB shaver, so it’s ideal for traveling as you can charge it anywhere in or out of the US if you have access to a computer or other USB port. When not charging, the ShaveTech USB port flips up directly into the razor itself. The shaver is no bigger than a typical smart phone so it will fit anywhere from your pocket to your briefcase.

The sleek and simple design makes it very easy to use. The top slides on and off revealing the foil shaver head, and the shave with this super-light unit is nice and comfortable.

Anyone who travels often will love this useful gadget. Check it out at ShaveTech.com and also consider it for a gift with Father’s Day approaching.

The weather is warming up and summer is around the corner, so it’s definitely time to start shopping for a new pair of swim trunks. Our friends at Tommy Bahama sent us a stylish and unique pair with the Hybrid of Paradise 11″ Swim Trunks.

They’re unique because you can wear them as swim trunks or regular shorts. They look like a cross between regular clothe shorts and a bathing suit, but the cotton/polyester blended material is very comfortable while also being appropriate for the water. All of the interior pockets are mesh like you would find in a bathing suit, but it has the standard external pockets you would expect from a pair of cargo shorts. The only surprise is that it doesn’t have the mesh underwear portion you would expect from a bathing suit, so that makes them look even more like shorts along with the zipper in the front.

The shorts also come in a wide variety of colors. We liked the royal blue pair we had with the yellow logo on the side. With the quick dry fabric these shorts are perfect for boating and beach outings, particularly when you’ll be going back and forth between the water and the bar!

Check out Tommy Bahama for this hybrid option along with a wide variety of tradition swimwear, along with newer styles that have a shorter inseam as well. And with Father’s Day around the corner these and other items can offer great gift ideas as well.

As more guys start paying attention to body grooming, the number of shaving gadgets in our bathrooms is starting to multiply. Now we have Axe and Norelco teaming up for a new product exclusively available at Walmart – the AXE Philips Norelco Shave & Groom Kit.

It’s basically two groomers in one as it has two heads that click on and off. First it has a traditional Norelco shaver that gives you the comfortable and close shaves you’ve come to expect from Norelco. But then that snaps off and you can replace it with skin-friendly bodygroomer head and length comb. This you can use to groom or shave different parts of your body to make the ladies happy.

The shaver is cordless and you can use it as a wet or dry shaver, so it’s very flexible. The only quibble we had is that it doesn’t come with a carrying case, but this offers a ton of value for all the features. We tried it out and it worked perfectly for all our needs.

So check this out as it can be the perfect shaving gadget for your all your needs. Remember, in today’s world grooming everywhere is expected! It also makes a great gift with Father’s Day around the corner.

I had the opportunity to try out several new polo shirts from Golf by James Warren, a clothing collection that utilizes Europe’s best fabrics with a distinctive American style. The Par for the Office polo is pictured above in navy blue and the Wall Street Golf Polo is pictured below in bright red.

Right away I noticed the quality of these Italian-made shirts, both using 100% cotton, along with the distinctive designs. The Par for the Office is their signature short sleeve luxury men’s polo using double mercerized cotton. The fabric is very soft and smooth giving it a clean a crisp look, and it would work nicely in a number of settings both day and night, including with a blazer.

The Wall Street Golf Polo is a notched short sleeve button down polo in an exclusive Italian cotton pique, so the woven style gives it a more textured feel. The look and feel of this polo is more casual and probably works best for a round of golf and daytime settings.

Both polos feature the company’s signature snap “lifestyle” pocket with self embroidered logo located at the bottom left of the shirt in the front. If you tuck in the shirt this pocket will remain hidden, and it’s very convenient for holding keys, cash or a credit card. Both shirts also feature a vented hem and are machine washable.

While you’ll be sporting a very traditional look with these polo shirts, you can see that they both have very distinctive features that set them apart from your traditional polo shirt. If you’re looking for excellent quality and a unique twist to your golf and causal attire, you should definitely check out these shirts and other products from Golf by James Warren. Check out the website for more shirts, sweaters, and jackets that “defy traditional boundaries.”

There is a certain inevitability that we as men must all face in our lives, and that is that, as much as most guys hate to shop, occasionally we have to buy new dress clothes.

That dress shirt you bought five years ago for your buddies wedding? It doesn’t fit anymore, and actually makes you look like Artie Lange in the movie “Dirty Work.”

Since it’s time to buy a new shirt anyway, why not do it from the comfort of your own computer chair and design a shirt that you like without anyone hassling you, and at an affordable price? www.ShirtsMyWay.com makes custom dress shirts that fit really well. Many men have the problem that normal shirts just don’t fit well in certain areas and custom shirts are the solution.

Do you even know how much a custom dress shirt typically costs? At your local tailor, you can bet it will be at least $200. Even if you attempt to purchase one online, you’re not going to spend less than $135, perhaps even more when you factor in shipping and handling. That is, unless you check out www.ShirtsMyWay.com.

I went to the site and created my own shirt. Even as a child of the internet age, at first, I was somewhat daunted. “How long will this take? What are the odds I screw this up?” These thoughts and more careened through my brain, like a pinball in an empty auditorium. But once I got started, it was easy — the entire process took less than five minutes, perhaps more if you don’t have your measurements handy? Don’t know your measurements? Go to the men’s department of any reputable clothing store in your area and they should measure you for free.

The site is straight forward and easy to navigate thanks to the “point and click” setup. First, I picked the color of my dress shirt (Atlantis L. Purple). From there, the customizing options were seemingly endless; you can customize everything from sleeve length (long), type of collar (classic), cuffs (1 button angle) to yoke (plain) and even the placket (seamless). One really cool feature is that you can actually combine different fabrics for your design, which is something I have never seen anywhere else.

With my custom shirt now completed, I proceeded to check out and see what kind of financial damage I had incurred. Even with a custom color, my total was just $85 dollars. And since www.ShirtsMyWay.com has free shipping and handling (if you choose Standard Delivery; $10 for Express), there were no additional hidden fees. There are also no extra charges for any extra options.

New to the idea of a custom dress shirt and curious to exactly what that entails? You can download the free Book of Dress Shirts for more inspiration and tips on designing your dress shirts. Check out the site and read more background info on the company here: http://www.shirtsmyway.com/about.php

If you’re looking for gift ideas for Father’s Day, consider a gift certificate from ShirtsMyWay. You can email them at support[AT]shirtsmyway.com to set it up.

But not your dad; not this year. This year, you are going to give dad the gift of gaming. In trying to help all sons and daughters with this task, I was shocked to discover that there are actually quite a few good games for dad available. While you can’t go wrong with classics like “Call of Duty,” “God of War,” “Uncharted,” or a genuine full-size arcade cabinet of “Cabella’s Big Buck Hunter,” these are the ten titles that I feel most dads would want most on their big day.

Red Dead Redemption

If you’re dad’s anything like mine, he can catch a Sergio Leone movie or “Unforgiven” rerun on TV with frightening accuracy and consistency. So what better gift than what is far and away the best western game ever made?

Whether it’s ropin’, ridin’, thievin’ or shootin’, your dad won’t need the letter “g” if you give him the game that lets him freely roam the west and re-enact his favorite moments from the great western genre. To make the gift even better, pack it in with the “Man with No Name Collection“, or the first season of “Deadwood” to insure that you put your dad in a deadly entertainment cycle that will be driving mom crazy for months to come.

Forza Motorsport 4

This is just a gimme. Featuring over 500 cars (well over half of which most normal people will never see with their own eyes) and an almost endless amount of customization, tracks, game options and other extra content, “Forza 4″ is simply the greatest racing game ever made. Even if for some reason your dad isn’t a car nut (the odds aren’t great there), “Forza 4″ is a game that is having so much fun with its subject that it basically becomes impossible to not get swept up in it.

The only way you can miss on this one is if dad doesn’t own an Xbox 360. Then your prospects get trickier. For PlayStation 3, you could always go for the stuffier but enjoyable “Gran Turismo 5” and just never let dad know there is a better option out there, and for the Wii there is always “Mario Kart.” Everyone loves “Mario Kart.”

Sports Games… Too Many Sports Games

I don’t want to make generalizations here, but I’m going to put the odds of your dad liking sports in about the 90% range. Obviously, if your dad has a favorite sport, it’s easy to get the appropriate game to match it. Football fans get “Madden,” basketball nuts go with the “NBA 2K” series, soccer hooligans go with “FIFA,” and so on.

However, if you want an easy out for the sports conundrum, just go with” Wii Sports.” I can’t explain it, but dads of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds love the hell out of “Wii Sports.” They seem to have no knowledge or care for how stupid they look, and just spend hours throwing fake bowling balls around. It’s a scary phenomenon, but there is no sense in denying the draw of this game with middle aged and above men.

Dead Rising 2

Look, I don’t want to be grim here, but I don’t want to have to kill a zombie that used to be my dad. I’m guessing you feel the same. But since there is going to be a zombie apocalypse, unless certain precautions are taken, you may have to face this horrifying situation.

My advice? Get him prepared. Get him “Dead Rising 2″ and let him learn how to fight off insurmountable hoards of the undead with whatever may be lying around. Not only will he have hours of fun roaming around a pseudo Las Vegas and turning the old weed whacker into a device of mass destruction, but you will also be preparing him for the inevitable fate of the dead walking the Earth. So when the two of you are back-to-back one day with katana swords fighting off zombies, you truly will have the proudest dad alive for having gotten him ready.

From Russia with Love

This one is actually a last generation title, but its an essential game for dad. Because like most other men, your dad most likely made a sound decision at one point in his life that he would like to be James Bond. Unfortunately, it turns out that Aston Martins don’t handle that well, sleeping around that much internationally leads to strange new VDs, and it takes years in a government position for most people to just escape the mailroom.

Instead of watching dad drown his sorrows in shaken martinis waiting for the next Bond movie, let him finally live out his Bond dreams. “From Russia with Love” isn’t a perfect game, but it has the feel of a Bond movie down perfect. Plus, you get to play as Sean Connery, the one true Bond in most old school fans eyes. It’s worth digging out the old PlayStation 2 or Xbox for.

An Old School Classic

I grew up in an NES family. When we bonded, it wasn’t over a bedtime reading or a day trip, but rather a gathering around the old console. Whether it was getting murdered at failed “Contra” or “Battletoads” sessions, putting countless hours into “Dragon Warrior” in lieu of homework, or seeing if we could beat “Super Mario Bros. 3” without that cheap warp whistle trick, we were a gaming family.

If this applies to you, then the gift is simple. You search eBay for a cheap console of your choice with your favorite old school game to go with it, and you have it set up in the living room waiting to take dad back to those simpler times. Just make sure you stop off at Radioshack on the way for an adapter, though, unless you take a sick joy in wasting half of the day figuring out how to hook one of those old beasts up to a modern TV.

Grand Theft Auto IV

I’m sure your dad tried to do right in raising you. He taught you moral guidelines, he worked hard for his living, and probably even took you to church once or twice. However, probably due to the patriarchal tones of “The Godfather,” I’m betting your dad secretly hoped for a turn of events that would force him into the world of high profit organized crime to support his family.

Much as the rest of the world found out with the overnight success of “GTA: III” in 2001, this series is the perfect way to harmlessly live out those criminal urges. While your dad may initially feel overwhelmed by the size and scope of the game, once he figures out that most issues can be solved with a baseball bat, he’ll probably find himself as hopelessly addicted as millions of others have. Bonus points if you snag the “Complete Edition” that includes the “Lost and the Damned” content that will let him finally join that motorcycle gang.

Portal 2

Maybe “Portal 2″ doesn’t immediately spring to mind when you’re thinking of dad games, but it definitely should. You could fool him at first into thinking that it’s going to be a shooting title, only to let him slowly be drawn in by the unique concept and level design while the game’s unrivaled sense of humor keeps just about anyone playing just to see what the next gag is going to be. Plus, even if he doesn’t usually get into puzzle games, he’ll probably feel the classic fatherly urge of one-upsmanship take over and will end up beating it in an effort to prove that you’re not smarter than your old man.

The best reason to go with “Portal 2,” though, is the co-op. While I spent hours of my youth trying to awkwardly catch and hit a baseball to spend time with dad, this new age has offered us the better option of letting you two try to mutually work your way out of the world’s most complex rat maze.

BioShock

Considering that it’s one of the greatest and most important titles of this generation, I don’t think I need to go into detail on why everyone should play this game. Here’s just a few specific reasons why dad needs to play it:

1. He probably doesn’t get around to playing many games that challenge the “games are art” debate. So this is a chance to expand his horizons without trying to find the best way to discreetly wrap some LSD.

2. He probably can’t help but admire the parenting skills of the Big Daddies in the game, and when he eventually has to take them down, you get a chance to prove that your dad can actually beat up any other dad.

3. Since “BioShock: Infinite” is now delayed until 2013, whenever you need to start up a conversation with the old man, you can call him up and share just how much that sucks.

Rock Band

All right, all right, I admit that this game and the genre are a little played out. But besides being able to snag the whole set cheaper now that the craze has died down (ideally), the real value of this game comes in its ability to get the whole family together having fun just like dad was always trying to do.

Then, of course, when its late at night and no one is around, dad can sneak into the living room, tie up the old headband and rock out to “Shooting Star” just like he used to. While mom may not appreciate him inviting the guys over to play in order to get the band back together one more time, dad certainly will, and this is his day after all. Plus, he did give up on his music dreams in order to support his family, so you can’t forget that.