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Cool, January 2026

Cool, January 2026

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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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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

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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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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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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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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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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Wednesday Link Roudup

The web is a vast place best explored with a little guidance. Every day we curate a small collection of links worthy of your time, meaning you can skip the wandering and get right to the good stuff.

By Pat McLaughlin
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Accessories
The All-Weather Duckboot II

As hard as it is to believe, fall temperatures are already starting to roll in, and that means it's time to swap out the everyday kicks for the everyday boots. There are certainly plenty of great boots to wear this fall, but we're partial to the new All-Weather Duckboot II…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Buick Electra Electric Crossover Concept

The GM Buick marquee is not a brand we discuss all that often because they're generally relegated to the production of safe, luxury vehicles. But the concepts, oh the concepts. Following in the footsteps of previous concept classics like the Buick Avista is the recently unveiled Buick Electra--billed as "the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Qantas Is Selling off Their Recently Decommissioned Bar Carts–with the Wine

Australian Airline Qantas might not have built the 747 aircraft that became the cornerstone of their fleet--Boeing built the plane--but they made it their own with their customizations, logos, amenities and yes, their bar carts. Unlike most other carriers, Qantas was all about taking care of their returning customers--particularly the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Omega Speedmaster “Silver Snoopy Award” 50th Anniversary

Omega has just issued its third version of its famous Speedmaster Snoopy watch, and this one is truly special since it commemorates the 50th anniversary of the NASA Snoopy Award given to Omega to honor its instrumental role in the Apollo 13 mission. The new version is called the Omega…

By Amos Kwon
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