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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 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
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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

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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 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

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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Stay Home: Amazon’s Highest Rated Instant Pot

Since we’re all stuck inside, we decided to do some digging to find useful products to help stay productive, occupied, entertained and fit while you Stay Home. In all honesty, we were just as dubious as you about the need for an Instant Pot pressure cooker when we already have…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Project Black TR2 Tactical Respirator II

Clean, sanitary air is more important than ever these days, and even the CDC is now recommending we all wear masks outside. If you want to take your protection to the next level, you're going to want a full respirator with filter. That's where the Project Black TR2 Tactical Respirator…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Where’s Bowie? 500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

A puzzle just might be part of the cure for cabin fever these days, and this one is more satisfying than most. Rendered by illustrator and artist Kev Gahan, the puzzle's details reveal numerous David Bowie characters in various guises. Consider it a more eclectic version of Where's Waldo. The…

By Amos Kwon
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Art of Rally Game

Canadian-based studio Funselektor Labs is back with a followup to the wildly popular Absolute Drift called Art of Rally. The appropriately-titled Art of Rally puts you in the driver seat and takes you back to the golden age of rallying as you bomb through multiple courses with different cars in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Heliograf Light Soy Lamps

We are a wasteful society, and most of the news about how much plastic gets tossed into landfills or the ocean is just plain harrowing and depressing. Australian studio Heliograf, however, wants to make "light" of it all. These fish-shaped Light Soy lamps are actually modeled after plastic soy sauce…

By Amos Kwon
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