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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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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
Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle

Despite the fact that we've seen plenty of electric motorcycles over the past few years, Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle still carves a unique path with the build, design and performance options available to the end user. The Cleveland Cyclewerks Falcon BLK Electric Motorcycle has all the performance specs…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
This Japanese Chef Rendered 1,000 of His Meals in Notebooks for 32 Years

If a love for food and art can coexist in equal amounts, Japanese chef Itsuo Kobayashi has nailed them both in his copious hand-painted expressions of his meals for over three decades. Kobyashi painstakingly replicated his meals after writing vivid descriptions and then captured them in numerous notebooks and standalone…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
1996 Porsche 911 GT2

The final iteration of the air-cooled 911s (993, the internal Porsche designation) are truly coveted, and this 1996 GT2 is a rare find. A mere 243 of the GT2 models were built over a three-year span, and only 161 of them were street legal including this one. It is, essentially,…

By Amos Kwon
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Misc
Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’ Is Now Available Online

We've been patiently waiting to check out Guy Ritchie's latest heist film The Gentlemen ever since we first saw the trailer at the end of last year. The wait is officially over because, much like quite a few other films on the horizon, the theatrical release was scrapped in favor…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
StatGear Hygiene Hand

Limiting your exposure to germs is incredibly important right now because of the pandemic. To that end, StatGear has developed the Hygiene Hand, an EDC tool designed by a NYC paramedic to help reduce the number of things you have to touch everyday. The simple and effective design uses a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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