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

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Lifestyle
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
By Beau Hayhoe
1
Lifestyle
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
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico
Lifestyle
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico

From jungle-lined fairways to greens hanging over the Sea of Cortez, consider this our fantasy nine-hole round through Mexico.

By Cool Material
Entertainment
The 6 Most Iconic Movie Sneakers

We love a good collaboration, and film and fashion go together like peas and carrots. Or peas and corn. Or corn and mashed potatoes. Or if you want some not-food examples, Giorgio Armani in American Gigolo, Jean-Paul Gaultier in The Fifth Element, Ray-Ban in Top Gun. That’s all classic cinema…

By Maxwell Barna
most-iconic-movie-sneakers-life-aquatic
Transportation
Ferrari J50

Recently unveiled during a special celebration held at the National Art Center in Tokyo to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ferrari in Japan, the Ferrari J50 is everything we've come to expect from the prancing horse on other continents. Two-seater. Mid-rear-engined roadster. Evocative of the targa body style from the…

By Cooper Fleishman
ferrari-j50
Entertainment
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

Curated and created by author Benjamin Grant (owner of the Daily Overview Instagram project you might be familiar with), Overview: A New Perspective of Earth takes Google Earth and satellite image porn to a whole new level. Inspired by Grant's work with the Instagram project and the "Overview Effect"—a sensation…

By Cooper Fleishman
overview-a-new-perspective-of-earth
Features
Test Drive-Thru: The BMW i8 Goes to Hardee’s

“Test Drive-Thru” is a series where we review new cars and new fast food items. If the BMW i8 were to go vertical and shoot into the troposphere, we wouldn’t be surprised. It looks like the design and engineering department didn’t so much make a sports car as they chopped…

By Dillon McLaughlin
test-drive-thru-bmw-i8-hardees
Transportation
The Beast Hoverbike

Rico Kersten is a Berlin-based designer with a passion for 3D and SciFi who specializes in digital art, automotive design, game design. Kersten created The Beast Hoverbike as part of international design competition A Road Trip in 2116. The rules were simple: "On Saturday, July 18th,  2116, what would be your…

By Cooper Fleishman
the-beast-hoverbike