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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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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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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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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

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

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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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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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Looftlighter X Rechargeable Electric Fire Starter

For as long as we can remember there has been a huge debate about charcoal or gas when it comes to grill fuel. Ultimately, it always come down to the fight between convenience and flavor. If you prefer charcoal but want the speed of gas, forget about the chimney starter…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ready Set Van Off-Grid Adventure Vehicles

The team at Ready Set Van got their start building out a custom adventure home out of a 38' school for Burning Man affectionately referred to as Big Larry Bus. The team has taken everything they learned from that informative adventure to start building fully-outfitted, off-grid adventure vehicles based on…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Asmoke Portable Applewood Pellet Grill

When it comes to replicating the low-and-slow taste of aroma of BBQ at home, there's no better option than a pellet grill or smoker. Traeger has long been the name to beat when it comes to pellet grills and smokers, but this Asmoke Grill aims to dethrone even them with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Federal Moto Kawasaki GPz1100 “Danger Zone”

The 1986 Top Gun movie might be remembered more for its beach volleyball and motorcycle scenes than for its dogfighting sequences, and that irony isn't lost on us. The latter scene shows Tom Cruise rocketing alongside an F-14 Tomcat while fist-pumping on a Kawasaki Ninja GPz900R. Chicago-based Federal Moto has…

By Amos Kwon
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Nanopresso Portable Espresso Maker

While we could certainly be encouraged to give up all our other vices, coffee is one of things that's non-negotiable. The "morning water" as we like to call it is one of those things that we just can't do without. There's nothing we miss more when we're traveling or out…

By Cooper Fleishman
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