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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

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
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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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
Drinks

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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Watches
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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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Black Forest Westfalias Camper Van Rentals

It seems like the only way to stay sane these days is to get out of the city for some nature and exploration. There's perhaps no better way to do that than with car-camping, Camper Vans or the #vanlife. If you don't want to shell out the cash to outfit…

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“Strength in Numbers” Is the World’s Strongest Beer

More than a decade ago, BrewDog and Schorschbräu entered into an international "Strongest Beer" ABV arm's race to determine who could brew the world's strongest beer. Sam Adams Utopias, Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout and plenty of other competitors came to collect the title, but none could compete with…

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Pegasus Land Rover Series III Defender Overlanding Truck

Here's another mouthwatering rendering of a vehicle that should absolutely exist beyond the web and our dreams. Mocked up by designer Doruk Erdem, this beast of burden is named the Pegasus. It uses the Land Rover Series III Defender as its base, adding a huge fire engine-inspired truck cab, a…

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Aston Martin X Sylvan Rock Home

Who says great automotive design can't translate to other genres? Watches, boats, planes, and this time around, it's a home worked up by Aston Martin designers and S3 Architecture. Located in New York's Hudson Valley, Sylvan Rock is the British carmaker's first private residential home design. It uses beautiful copious…

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Viola Brand does acrobatics on a bicycle that we can't even manage on solid ground. She's a skilled gymnast and freestyle bike rider who just happens to make balancing, spinning, and standing on a fixie bike look easy. She uses virtually every part of the bicycle to display her tremendous…

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