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Cool, January 2026

Cool, January 2026

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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
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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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

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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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.

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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

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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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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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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Fashion
CW&T Solid State Watch

As much as we love beautifully crafted, complex automatic watches, we are transfixed on the ingeniously rudimentary Solid State Watch. CW&T takes a Casio F-921 digital watch and encases it into a transparent resin case. You can't change the time, use an alarm or a light. Hell, you can't do…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
Birdbox Adventure Cabins

We've seen quite a few turnkey-ready cabins that allow you to setup an off-the-grid rental or personal retreat wherever you have space. Design firm Livit and their new Birdbox Adventure Cabins are some of our favorite options because of their unique combination of minimalist design and understated luxury. Available in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
The Unit Bag 2 Backpack Is Built for All Your Office and Travel Essentials

We're willing to bet you're carrying your daily essentials in a backpack. The Unit Bag 2 is going to change the way you think about that bag. For starters, it's an ultralight bag that's still waterproof and scratchproof to protect your valuables while you're carrying it as a briefcase, crossbag…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
The Official Harley-Davidson F-250 Truck

Taking styling cues from its F-150 baby brother in Harley-Davidson trim, the new Harley-Davidson F-250 is just more of everything. Using the F-250 as the base vehicle, Tuscany Motor Company outfits it with black and orange features everywhere. The front fascia gets orange accents, a big honeycomb mesh grille, H-D…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Alessandro Paglia ‘Smashed’ Iconic Movie Cars

In case you haven't heard of Alessandro Paglia, he's a Milan-based artist and designer educated in the world of product design that made his bones creating one-off, realistic drawings of iconic cars getting smashed to pieces from a top-down perspective. Iconic taxis from films. Dodge Chargers emblazoned with Americana. Herbie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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