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
Lifestyle Home

Home

Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026
Home
Black Book: 13 Products Our Editors Loved in October 2026
By Cool Material
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
Home
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

The drinks, the music, the vibes, and everything else you need to end summer on a high note.

By Cool Material
1
Home
The Secret to Perfectly Messy Hair

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

By Cool Material
1
Home
Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

By Cool Material
Drinks
Kebo One-Handed Bottle Opener

For far too long we've been opening our beer bottles with two hands like suckers. All that effort, when one hand could handle the beer while the other texts, high-fives or grabs a boob (Warning: Don't grab boobs without consent). Even though you may not know it, back in the day, a…

By Mike Newman
Kebo-One-Handed-Bottle-Opener
Home
NYC Photos from 1978-1985

Michael Sean Edwards knows his way around the business end of a film camera. He took a series of photos in NYC between 1978 and 1985 that cover everything from the Garment District to Avenue A. Check out his photos below and walk the streets of NYC as if it…

By Cooper Fleishman
Michael-Sean-Edwards-NYC-1978-1985
Entertainment
ImageSnap Custom Ceramic Tiles

Our phones are jam-packed with little pieces of art we created with the help of Instagram. Our favorite camera app has taken us from "weird guy snapping pictures of a crushed beer can" to "artist" (pronounced art-eest). As we look for clever and inventive ways to show off our work to the…

By Mike Newman
ImageSnap-Custom-Ceramic-Tiles
Drinks
Cupa-Rocks Tumblers

We’re kind of purists when it comes to the liquor we imbibe. Adding water to a quality whiskey is as close to sacrilege as you can get in our minds (for the record, water backs are fine). When someone told us that adding oxygen opened up the flavor like it…

By Cool Material Guest
Cupa-Rocks-Tumblers
Entertainment
The Venn of Beer

Not all things are greater than the sum of their parts.  We love inhaling cheap tacos and we love rollercoasters, but we don't love cleaning puke out of our Nikes.  Beer, clearly, does not fall into this category.  Don't believe us, go eat a yeast packet.  Something magical happens when…

By Mike Newman
The-Venn-of-Beer