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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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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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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

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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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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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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Filson x Westland Distillery Coldfoot Whiskey

Instead of a rugged Filson product you can wear or carry, how about one you can drink on a chilly winter's eve? The American outdoor apparel brand just collaborated with Seattle's Westland Distillery to create a single malt whiskey the American way, along with a corresponding line of similarly branded…

By Amos Kwon
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1988 Italdesign Aztec

When a car as unique as the Aztec goes up for sale, we take notice. It might not be a vintage Ferrari, but it is nonetheless special. Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and built back in 1988, it's all the right kind of '80s. It was way ahead of its time…

By Amos Kwon
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This Volvo XC60 T8 Is Made With Recycled Ocean Plastic and Fishing Nets

You've been bragging about your sustainably sourced flip flops. Well, Volvo is here to outdo you and then some with its earth-friendly poster child. This XC60 T8 Hybrid premium crossover is showcasing Volvo's new approach to materials that will have the Chinese-owned Swedish automaker to infuse every vehicle in its…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
‘Printing Money’ Visualizes How Fast You Earn a Dollar

Neal Agarwal is a Computer Science geek and data visualization specialist that has never known a statistic he couldn't make interesting. His latest project is called "Printing Money," and it's a scrolling visualization of the amount of time it takes to generate dolla, dolla bills based on specific wage amounts.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Ball and Buck Custom Jeep Program

If you're a fan of Ball and Buck men's apparel and accessories, you might want to take a serious look at their thematically consistent restored and modified Jeeps. The outfitter parntered with Kyle Smith of Bird Buggy fame and uses Jeep Scrambler pickups from the '80s (CJ-8) as the base…

By Amos Kwon
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