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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

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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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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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I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

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Transportation
The Solo Electric Three-Wheeled Car Is Coming to the States

Three-wheeled cars have always been something of an oddity that's hard to classify. On one hand, since they're technically classified as motorcycles, the licensing rules are relaxed and you get better gas mileage. On the other hand, there's no full-scale safety testing and there are two different three-wheeled cars on…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Are Being Remastered

Grinding through the Warehouse level of Tony Hawk Pro Skater on your way to crashing through the overhead glass room to snag the secret DVD is one of the fondest memories we have of playing video games as a kid. If we're being completely honest, the entirety of Tony Hawk…

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Accessories
adidas Consortium FYW XTA Hiking Shoe

Looking like a Balenciaga trailer got the do-over by Bear Grylls, the FYW XTA is a hiking shoe of the chunkiest kind. Inspired by the original adidas XTA, the FYW XTA's most prominent feature is its huge knobby outsole, followed by the flaming red lacing system. The upper is a…

By Amos Kwon
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Misc
Kurt Cobain’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ Guitar Auction

There's no denying the fact that Nirvana's MTV Unplugged set in 1993 is one of the most incredible performances that has ever happened. Everything associated with that historic concert is worth a fortune these days. Kurt Cobain's Cardigan set records when it sold for $334,000, but even the record-holding sweater…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Save up to 60% on Almost 12,000 Items at END.

When we want to browse menswear grail pieces that we're probably never going to pull the trigger on, there's almost no better site than END. clothing. The U.K. powerhouse always has the freshest collection of goods and gear, but again, the prices can be on the unfathomable side. Until now!…

By Cooper Fleishman
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