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Lifestyle
The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

The Most Refreshing Hop Waters, Ranked

Crack. Sip. Ahhhhhh.

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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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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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Watches
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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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NERF’s New Ultra Blasters Fire Farther Than Ever

From rubber band guns and air cannons, to rocket launchers and drones, there are plenty of great options when it comes to weapons for cubicle warfare. But for our money, there's still no better option than the tried and true NERF gun. NERF's lineup of incredible foam dart firing blasters…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Misc
‘Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today’

The Internet has changed a lot since the days when you needed a computer the size of a small car and a telephone line to get horrendous dial-up connections that would take minutes to load a single image. These days, many people and even governments consider the Internet a public utility because,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Tech
There’s a 16ft Tall Battle Robot for Sale on Ebay

We just got done talking about the Boston Dynamics Spot Robot was equal parts awesome and terrifying because robots running amok is a fear that most of us share. It just got a lot more terrifying and awesome because MegaBots Eagle Prime battle robot--the same robot that squared off against…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Audio
Amazon’s New Echo Studio Smart Speaker Actually Sounds Good

As much as we've grown to rely on the convenience and the myriad of features available with Amazon Echo devices--you know what we're talking about if you've ever attempted to yell at Alexa to set an alarm while you're in a hotel--the one thing they've always been missing is quality…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Videos
Octopus Dreaming

We never thought we needed to know what octopuses looked like when they were sleeping, but like many other things they educated us on, PBS is here to tell us we do need to know. They have an upcoming feature called Octopus: Making Contact that follows Alaskan professor and marine biologist Dr.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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