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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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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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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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Westwell Modular Tool Belts

Belts were designed for the explicit purpose of holding your pants up and not much more, but Westwell is changing that by integrating common EDC tools into the buckles. Want four different wrenches, dual philips and flathead screwdrivers and bottle openers in your buckle? Not a problem. What about 19…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Ben Callery Off-The-Grid House in Australia

Situated in Australia on an off-grid retreat on an exposed ridge line at a place called High Camp just outside of Melbourne, Australia, this compact house is an off-the-grid retreat with all the creature comforts any normal human needs to survive. This house produces and stores its own power, collects…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
This Tiny EDC Flashlight Also Tackles Your Daily Opening Tasks

In a world where gadgets are judged on how well they do their jobs despite being available in the smallest packages possible, the Hunt23 Ultra Compact Flashlight reigns supreme. They took all the life-proof features of the incredibly bright Hunt22 (iceproof / smashproof / waterproof / fireproof) and upgraded the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
RCKZ Sneaker Boxes

You take pride in your sneakers, and you might even be a collector. But when they're not on your feet, they get unjustly shrouded in cardboard or relegated to your closet shoe storage bin. You’ve just dropped some serious coin on your Trophy Room X Nike Air Jordan 5s, so…

By Amos Kwon
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Home
Kurt Cobain’s Former Home is Up For Sale for $7.5MM

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's influence on music can't be overstated, and if you're a superfan with some money, you can own his Seattle home. Vacated in 1997 by his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances-Bean Cobain when it was sold to a trust, the 8,212 square-foot four-bedroom, four-bathroom house is…

By Amos Kwon
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