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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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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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

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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TUMI Merge Recycled Nylon Luggage

Tumi isn't abandoning their famous ballistic nylon luggage construction, but they're taking a more earth-friendly approach with their new Merge line of rolling bags that uses post-industrial recycled nylon and recycled plastic bottles that add the kind of toughness the brand is known for. The line ranges from a wheeled…

By Amos Kwon
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Porsche 911 Belgian Legend

The Porsche 911 Carrera and Carrera 4S were all-new for 2019 with the 992 internal designation. They take an already superlative car and elevate it to even greater levels. Now, the Belgian Legend special edition celebrates the 75th birthday of the 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and Belgian race…

By Amos Kwon
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‘The Pulp Magazine Archive’ Has 75 Years of Pulp Magazines You Can Read for Free

There are plenty of websites that we consider indispensable. The non-profit digital library that everyone knows as the Internet Archive is most definitely one of them. Whether you're looking through one of their 400+ billion archived web pages, 25,000+ Digitized 78rpm Records, or the other pieces of software, movies or…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Samsung’s Latest Flagship TV Is an 85″ Beast That Barely Has a Bezel

If you thought the recently revealed Samsung Odyssey 49" Curved QLED Gaming Monitor was going to be the biggest and most feature-packed screen unveiled at CES, wait until you see their latest flagship TV. The new Q950TS 8K QLED TV is "the first TV in the industry to feature surround…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Denzel Truvor Carbon Fiber Electric Scrambler Motorcycle

We love the idea of replacing our gas bikes with electric options because of all the positive benefits you're more than well aware of, but it wasn't until we saw the Denzel Model Electric Cafe Racer 1 Concept designed by Pablo Baranoff Dorn that we seriously considered it. Dorn and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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