Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe
Travel
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico

The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico

From jungle-lined fairways to greens hanging over the Sea of Cortez, consider this our fantasy nine-hole round through Mexico.

1
Travel
The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
1
partner
The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
Our Picks

Featured Stories

1
partner
The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

The Cool Shop The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

1
What We're Buying
7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
By Cool Material
1
Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
By Cool Material
1
partner
The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

Win a pair of handcrafted Crown Northampton Yardley GAT sneakers, a matching cardholder, and a handmade shoe tree.

The Cool Shop
The Cool Shop
What We're Buying
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

1
What We're Buying
7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

1
Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

Steals

The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

1
1
Travel
Travel

America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

The Cool Shop
The Cool Shop
2
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Cool Shop

1
3
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

1
4
Sports
Sports

The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

The Cool Shop
The Cool Shop
5
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Cool Shop

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
6
Travel
Travel

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

1
7
Travel
Travel

The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

1
8
What We're Buying
What We're Buying

The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

1
9
Travel
Travel

The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

1
10
Lifestyle
Lifestyle

Wild Turkey’s New ‘Cheesy Gold Foil’ Release Is a Tribute To a Collector’s Classic

From Our Partners

The Latest

Drinks
Salut! Travel Cup

For the traveler who enjoys a quick nip of something while exploring, there’s this Salut! Travel Cup. Instead of passing a flask around the campfire, consider this cup your classy alternative. Pour your drink like a gentleman into this stainless steel collapsible cup that easily fits right in your pocket.…

By Mike Newman
Salut-Travel-Cup-1
Cameras
Lomography Petzval Portrait Lens

Long before you started throwing filters on your Instagram photos, the majority of portraits were taken with a Petzval lens. In the 19th century, the lens, which was created by Joseph Petzval in 1840, was constantly used for its strong color saturation, that classic swirly bokeh effect, and the crispness…

By Mike Newman
Lomography-Petzval-Portrait-Lens-1
Tech
Google Chromecast

Little devices that let your stream online videos from your phone, tablet, or laptop to your TV aren't new. What the Chromecast from Google does offer, however, is a price tag significantly lower than most of the other options out there. For 35 bucks, just pick up a Chromecast, plug…

By Mike Newman
Google-Chromecast-1
Features
20 Things We Wanted To Steal From Comic-Con 2013

Hotels around the San Diego area book up approximately 8 years before Comic-Con dates are even announced. We were lucky enough to get sent out courtesy of The Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. (For details on how you can start earning points towards free nights at over…

By Mike Newman
20-Things-Steal-Comic-Con-2013
Entertainment
Pixelist Instagram Oil Paintings

Thanks to Instagram we can share our meals, concerts, catches, cats, dogs, babies, VIP wristbands and the rest of our lives with our friends, family and other random people on the Internet. It can be annoying, terrifying and down right infuriating at times, but more often than not it's just…

By Cooper Fleishman
Pixelist-Instagram-Oil-Paintings-1