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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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This Batmobile Desk Clock Costs Almost $30k

Rather than plunking down for that angry black Chevy Camaro 2LT coupe you've been eyeing, why not show your true Batman love by spending it on a Batmobile desk clock that costs about the same? Sure, you won't be able to drive it, but you can ogle its complex 397-component…

By Amos Kwon
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Computers
Fineday Retro Design Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard

Whether you're cranking out emails, notes, blog posts, to-do lists or, well, anything else you need to type more than five words for, there's nothing quite like the experience of doing it on a mechanical keyboard. There's just something about the clickety-clackety noises and the key travel of a mechanical…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Citroën Me Concept Vehicle

While there are plenty of modern electric vehicles designed or built to crush speed barriers, performance limitations or our traditional ideals of what an electric car looks like, it's not difficult to argue that the Citroën Ami Electric City Car--despite being capable--checks none of those boxes. Designed Alexandrte Pain aims to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Misc
The Star Wars Archives 1999–2005

As a follow up to the excellent Star Wars Archive Volume 1 from 2018, publisher TASCHEN has just released The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005. The 600-page hardbound book covers the making of the prequel trilogy: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Episode II Attack of the Clones, and Episode III Revenge…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Tesla Tequila

What industry has Elon Musk not dipped his toe into? Well, it's not booze, that's for sure. The culmination of a project that's actually been in the works for years, Telsa Tequila is finally here (and gone). The $250 Tequila in a spectacular lightning-bolt bottle is already sold out, and…

By Amos Kwon
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