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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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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.

Steals

The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

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Feeling the Burn

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Sports
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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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Features

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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Sports
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Watches
Watches

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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Fashion
At Home: These Nail Clippers Have 4,000 Great Reviews on Amazon

Since many of us are still home, we decided to do some digging to find useful products to help stay productive, occupied, entertained and fit while you’re At Home. While most of our quarantine has been spent learning new things, tracking updates on our favorite sites and binging new streaming…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Ninebot GoKart Pro Lamborghini Edition

Lamborghini is all about exotic performance cars, and they've just made a tiny electric go-kart that's true to their name. In a collaboration between China-based Xiaomi and Lambo, The Ninebot GoKart Pro Lamborghini Edition was born. The limited release kart is all-electric has custom rear tires, four driving modes that…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Stanley Pour-Over Coffee Dripper

We've spoken at length about how we're the kind of people that don't want to be bothered in the morning until we've had at least one cup of coffee. This will probably never change, but it's especially true when it comes to roughing it in the outdoors. Yes, we want…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
STEAL: Up to 50% During the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale

Every year, Nordstrom holds an Anniversary Sale that is supposed to be door-busting, world-changing and closet-upgrading. They're having another sale during the year of COVID, but it's nowhere near as impressive as the previous years--because they also had a pandemic sale just a few months ago. With that said, there…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Travel
‘Stranger Things’: The Drive-Into Experience

Westworld. The Watchmen. Homecoming. Master of None. The Leftovers. Jack Ryan. Stranger Things. There have been more than a few shows over the past decade that presented great environments we wanted to explore further, but few of those dreams have come to reality. Until now. As part of a recent…

By Cooper Fleishman
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