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.

Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
By Cool Material
1
Lifestyle
How to Serve Great Cocktails Without Missing Your Own Party

World-class spirits, classic cocktails, and no time spent shaking and stirring.

By Cool Material
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary
Lifestyle
What to Watch Before Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

Consider this your homework before You Can See Everything arrives October 16.

By Lanny Fuller
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act
Lifestyle
Where Broken Guitar Strings Get a Second Act

Inside FRET12, the Chicago shop turning rock ’n’ roll culture into clothes, art, live sessions, beer, and more.

By Beau Hayhoe
Transportation
Deus Ex Machina Red Pill Custom Surf Bike

Everyone knows Deus Ex Machina makes awesome custom motorcycles, but their latest creation, Red Pill, is one of our absolute favorites. Builder Jeremy Tagand was approached with the seemingly simple task of "surf bike please, based on my W650, low and lean." Red Pill delivers on the request in spades.…

By Cooper Fleishman
deus-customs-red-pill-1
Entertainment
The Netflix and Chill Button

Netflix may call this little gadget the "Netflix Switch," but for all intents and purposes, it's the world's first Netflix and Chill button. Unveiled at this year's World Maker Faire, the contraption from Netflix allows users with a little electronic and API know-how to fire up Netflix, order some food, and, when…

By Mike Newman
netflix-and-chill-button
Transportation
David Beckham’s British Customs DBSC

British Customs has been helping people customize their Triumphs to make them completely unique for quite some time. David Beckham is a household name famous for "football," fantastic hair, being married to a Spice Girl, UNICEF, but he's also a huge motorcycle enthusiast. The DBSC is a bespoke Bonneville built…

By Cooper Fleishman
beck11
Home
Felix Lounger – the Sophisticated Beanbag Chair

Beanbag chairs get a bad wrap as only being acceptable for childhood bedrooms, dorms and bachelor pads, but the Danish design firm Trimm Copenhagen has different ideas. The Felix Lounger uses a "water, dust and advice-resistant" coated canvas in one of five colors (graphite, beige chine, grey, taupe, blue jeans…

By Cooper Fleishman
consump1
Home
The “Plug N’ Plant” Box That Grows Weed

Hiding behind the exterior of the 4' x 2' appliance that looks deceptively like a college dorm fridge designed by Dieter Rams you'll find Leaf, the "first ever Plug N' Plant cannabis growing system." You get room for two plants, real time monitoring on your phone and hardware designed to…

By Cooper Fleishman
canna3