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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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

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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…

By Cooper Fleishman
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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…

By Amos Kwon
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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…

By Amos Kwon
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Bicycle Ballet

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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Lamborghini Urus Graphite Capsule SUV

The Lamborghini Urus SUV seemed like an inevitability when it was released a few years ago. The raging bull is keeping the Urus powerplant the same with a twin-turbocharged V8 with a max power output of 650 hp and a top speed of more than 189 mph, along with reportedly the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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