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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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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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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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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
By Lola Méndez
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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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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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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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The UVMask Protects You from 99.9% of All Dust, Pollution and Airborne Pathogens

We don't like having to wear a mask everyday. If you're going to wear a mask all day, make it the best mask possible, and wear this UVMask. Equipped with a passive air filter and patent-pending Sterile-Vortex active UV-C light protection, the UVMask filters and purifies 99.99% of air 10x…

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Opinel 130th Anniversary Edition No. 8 Knife

What's easily one of the coolest everyday carry knives around, the Opinel 130th Anniversary Edition No. 8 folder is a conversation starter, for sure. The French company celebrates its 1890 launch with this special blade. It retains its classic Virobloc safety ring design here but adds a black-anodized stainless steel…

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Soup Base Ramen Noodle Wrapper

Minimizing plastic waste is vital to the survival of our planet and the creatures housed within. Efforts like this edible ramen soup package prove that humans can innovate in some truly special (and delicious) ways. Product designer Holly Grounds has created a biofilm packaging that doubles as the soup base,…

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LEGO Original Nintendo + TV

Whether you're talking about Contra, Metal Gear, Super Mario Brothers, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Duck Hunt, Mega Man, Kid Icarus or Tetris, there's no denying that the OG Nintendo Entertainment System had some of the best video games the industry has ever produced. Nintendo has released some Classic Editions of…

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OffLimits Cereal

Whether you're eating cereal all day or cooking bacon and eggs for dinner, we love breakfast in all of its forms. Author / host / foodie Emily Miller is a woman after our own hearts that recently launched OffLimits Cereal, two flavors of all day treats for everyone that wants…

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