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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
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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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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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Holden Après Ski Boot

Game of Thrones might be over--for now--but winter is still coming. It's time to start thinking about the footwear you're going to be wearing when it gets cold, slushy and snowy in the coming months. Enter the Holden Après Ski Boot. While the profile is most certainly boot like, it…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Making an Eames Lounge Chair with Recycled Skateboards

There is perhaps no more iconic, beloved, unique and beautiful reading chair than the Eames Lounge Chair. But the classic Eames Lounge Chair originally designed by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller wasn't quite special enough for Ottawa-based DIY builder Andrew Szeto. So what did Szeto do? He decided…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Clothing
Mizzen+Main Has the Dress Shirt Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For

Dress shirts have followed the same blueprint for as long as we can remember, and that's not a good thing. They could be better in almost every way but no one is doing anything about it--except for Mizzen+Main. Mizzen+Main combined the comfort and flexibility of your favorite athletic wear with…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Travel
MY Fata Morgana Explorer Super Yacht Concept

What better way to send a message about climate change than to sail an iceberg shaped yacht around the world. At least that's what designer George Lucian has in mind with his design rendering of the FY Fata Morgana, a 230 foot-long yacht with iceberg-like geometry (no, the biggest part…

By Amos Kwon
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Tech
Hero Arm Bionic Prosthesis

There have been quite a few different pieces of robotic technology released in the past month that are nothing short of astounding. Unlike those projects that have centered on transportation and workplace applications, Open Bionics is looking to put their advanced technology to work doing good with their Hero Arm…

By Cooper Fleishman
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