Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe

Features

What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger
Features
What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger
By Andy Vasoyan
1
Features
The Secret to Perfectly Messy Hair

The perfect balance of polished and undone, without the crunch, grease, or obvious effort.

By Cool Material
1
Features
We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season

Your basketball shoes might be ready for the court. But are your feet?

By Cool Material
1
Features
A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
Entertainment
Gun Fu: The Made-Up Martial Art Used in ‘John Wick’

The John Wick franchise took plot, crumbled it up like a sheet of loose leaf, and tossed it out the window, opting instead for straight action. This plan could easily have failed. Poor fight scenes would have left us with four hours of Gymkata. Luckily, as you're probably aware, John Wick did not fail in this…

By Mike Newman
gun-fu-header
Features
The Complete Guide to Smoking Cigars

We absolutely love cigars. If you’re an astute Cool Material reader, you already know this. Even though we’re preaching the good word about one of our favorite hobbies, we realize that cigar smoking isn’t necessarily the most easy to digest topic, and that there are many subtle nuances involved in…

By Maxwell Barna
The-Complete-Guide-to-Smoking-Cigars-new
Entertainment
What to Watch This Weekend: Icarus

With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend, a series in which we give you our pick for the best new show or…

By Mike Newman
What-to-Watch-This-Weekend-Icarus
Fashion
8 Dad Hats Perfect for Summertime

It might be hot as hell outside, but that doesn't mean you don't need to shade your face or cover up a messy 'do in a pinch. You need a quality hat for the summer months. We know some still lean on the five-panel, but we're gonna make a case…

By Cooper Fleishman
8-Dad-Hats-Perfect-for-Summertime
Features
What’s the Deal with Weighted Blankets?

Weighted blankets are being hailed as the cure for bad sleep—even better than your favorite smart mattress. Review after review swears that they’re here to completely revolutionize the way we catch Z’s, and that they’re a guaranteed way to reduce stress and keep us sleeping soundly. It seems too good…

By Maxwell Barna
Deal-With-Weighted-Blankets