Vans refreshes an iconic sneaker from the 1970s. Plus, Bose’s new flagship wireless earbuds and a grail timepiece from Bianchet.

Close-up of a white sneaker with white laces, metal eyelets, and a textured rubber sole. The shoe appears to be made of canvas and suede materials.Dime

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White canvas sneaker with white laces and a rubber sole featuring red and blue stripes, placed on a black grid-patterned surface with a yellow-handled screwdriver nearby.Dime

Dime x Vans Skate Era Stub

Dime teamed up with Vans to refurbish the Era, the first-ever purpose-built skate shoe, released by Vans in 1976. It is essentially a beefed-up version of the Authentic, with a padded collar and extra eyelets. The Montreal-based skateboarding company utilizes the top skating tech available in Van’s inventory. The new Era Stub is equipped with a SickStick rubber outsole for enhanced grip, a PopCush insole for impact cushioning and DuraCap reinforcement on high-friction areas of the foxing. The upper blends canvas and suede panels, and Dime’s logo is embossed in the heel counter. It also comes in a yellow version with bolt-shaped eyelets, modeled after Timberland boots. The Era Stub will be available on August 30 from Dime and select Vans retailers.

Classic white Austin Mini Cooper with racing number 59 on the door, featuring a chrome grille, round headlights, and a wooden steering wheel inside. The car is parked on a gravel surface near a garage with a green roller door. Another similar white Mini is partially visible in the background.Austin Cars

Remanufactured 1959 Austin Mini

Austin Cars Ltd. is building a pair of 1959 Mini replicas to race at the 2025 Goodwood Revival for the St Mary’s Trophy. Ownes Fabrications will be building the bodies and the roll cages, while Switftune will be building the race-performing A-series engines. As highly detailed recreations, they’ll wear original Austin grilles and badges and ride higher, allowing for more body roll in the corners as in the 1950s.

A person holding a pair of black DJI wireless microphones with gray furry windshields. One microphone is held in the right hand, and the other is placed in an open black charging case held in the left hand. The background shows a wooden table and a softly lit room.DJI

DJI Mic 3

The DJI Mic 3 is the brand’s latest and most advanced wireless microphone system, designed specifically for content creators. Like its predecessor, the 2024-released Mic 2, the Mic 3 ships with two transmitters, one receiver and a charging case to hold them. However, the Mic 3 system is roughly half the size and weight of the Mic 2, and DJI upgraded it with superior performance, more internal storage and new features, such as adaptive gain controls and voice tone presets. As of August 2025, price and availability info have yet to be revealed.

Brooks

Brooks Cascadia Elite

Brooks enters the race to build the ultimate super shoe for the trails with the Cascadia Elite. The shoe weighs just 9.5 ounces for a men’s size nine and boasts a carbon plate between two layers of PEBA foam, Matryx upper and Vibram Megagrip Elite outsole. Worn by the 2025 Western States runner-up Chris Myers, the Cascadia Elite comes out in March of 2026.

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen)Bose

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen)

Bose announced the second-generation versions of its flagship noise-cancelling wireless earbuds earlier this summer, but they’re finally available. As far as looks and features, they don’t stray too far away from the 2023-released originals. However, Bose upgraded in several key ways. They promise even better adaptive noise-cancellation thanks to new and improved AI, as well as superior call clarity. The case now supports wireless charging. They also have new ear tips that feature a built-in wax guard to prevent buildup and audio degradation. Available in three colors: Black, White Smoke and Deep Plum.

Bianchet

Bianchet UltraFino Sapphire

Ultra high-end watchmaker Bianchet exclusively produces tourbillon timepieces, and the brand may have launched its most impressive yet with the UltraFino Sapphire, the world’s thinnest tourbillon watch with a sapphire case. The in-house UT01 tourbillon movement is crafted mainly from titanium and boasts a solid gold rotor — that’s right, it’s an automatic — and measures just 3.85mm tall. This allows the watch to come in with an overall thickness of just 9.85mm. Despite its thinness and the sapphire case, this is still a sports watch at heart, with an impressive 5,000 Gs of shock resistance and 50m water resistance rating. It’s priced at CHF 85,500, which converts to around $106,600 before tariffs.

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