Skip to Content
Gear
Tech
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

1
Features
London Doesn’t Have to Be Lavish to Travel Well
By Blake Snow
1
Features
6 N/As Every Guy Should Have on Hand During the Holidays

Happy HoliN/As!

By Christopher Osburn
1
Features
The Charm of Canandaigua, New York

The perfect friend trip for 2026.

By Kaitlyn Rosati
1
Features
5 Picks From the 2025 Film Festival Season, Based on Movies You Already Love

I survived festival season. These are the films I haven't stopped thinking about since.

By Andy Crump
Features
Everything You Need To Know Before Buying An Electric Dirt Bike

You don’t have to love electric vehicles to appreciate just how far they’ve come in the last decade. When the first ones started trickling onto the market, they had enormous batteries and small distance ranges. They were expensive to the point of inaccessibility. They felt more like tech-driven novelties than…

By Maxwell Barna
everything-you-need-to-know-before-buying-an-electric-bike
Features
Want To Know How To Talk About Beer? Start Here

Beer comes with its own language, most of which makes talking about beer an intimidating and alienating prospect for casual drinkers. Conversely, this separate language is a delight for pedantic, gatekeeping nerds clamoring for an intellectual edge on people at parties. I don’t like those nerds and am always looking…

By Dillon McLaughlin
How-To-Talk-Beer
Fashion
The 5 Best Places To Buy Vintage T-shirts Online

I suspect if I were to survey a group of guys, most would say that their favorite shirt to wear to bed or to hang out is one that has been washed, faded, and worn to hell. There’s something comfortable that a new shirt off the rack just can’t replicate.…

By Brett Braley
The-5-best-places-to-buy-vintage-tshirts
Entertainment
The 10 Best ’80s Comedies Every Guy Should See

If you go decade by decade and rank each one based on the number (and quality) of comedy movies, it’s pretty difficult to beat the prowess of the 1980s. Go ahead and try. The decade begins in 1980 with Caddyshack, one of the most iconic, quotable comedies of all time…

By Christopher Osburn
Best-80s-Comedies
Entertainment
The 7 Most Overrated Video Games (and What To Play Instead)

There are great video games out there. Some are just plain beautiful, while others started out good and turned great after an update. Others still are as fun to watch as they are to play. And then there are the overrated video games. These are extremely hyped games that don't…

By Dillon McLaughlin
Most-Overrated-Video-Games