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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides

From style and home goods to EDC and food and drink, we rounded up the coolest gifts of the year.

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Looks Like a Teddy, Wears Like a Grizzly
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
By Travis Haley
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Outdoors
The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
By Lola Méndez
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Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pack your bags...

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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Outdoors
The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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Feeling the Burn

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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Drinks
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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Watches
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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Watches
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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Volkswagen ID.6 Crossover SUV Electric Concept

Everyone knows that the future of motoring is electric, but few brands have gotten behind that initiative as much as Volkswagen has with their line of ID-badged electric vehicles. In addition to the electrified classics like the ID BUZZ Bus, and the MEB Dune Buggy, they just revealed that there…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Huckberry Did a Barrel Pick with Buffalo Trace

If the raging dumpster fire of a year that is 2020 wasn't reason enough to drink, we don't know what is. Necessity is the mother of all invention--followed closely by the desire to drink and drown it all out--which led our friends at Huckberry to team up with our other…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
WHOOP: The Personal Trainer of Fitness Trackers

Fitness trackers are great for monitoring progress and build better habits, but they're not all created equal. If you want to best, you want WHOOP. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 is a lightweight, waterproof and sleek wearable that collects 5 metrics 24/7 to give you the most accurate and granular understanding…

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Food
The Skotch Grill Makes It Easier Than Ever to Grill on the Go

The fastest way to anyone's heart is through their stomach, and that's easier than ever with the Skotch Grill. It might look like a simple tartan plaid bucket, but it's a lightweight, high-performance and portable grill that's ideal for satellite grilling sessions whether you're at the beach, park, studio or…

By Cooper Fleishman
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WHOOP: The Personal Trainer of Fitness Trackers

Fitness trackers are great for monitoring progress and build better habits, but they're not all created equal. If you want to best, you want WHOOP. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 is a lightweight, waterproof and sleek wearable that collects 5 metrics 24/7 to give you the most accurate and granular understanding…

By Cooper Fleishman
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