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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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Looks Like a Teddy, Wears Like a Grizzly
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
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Featured Stories

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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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

Pack your bags...

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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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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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

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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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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A Pair of Vintage Apple Inc. Sneakers Are Available for $50,000

For some reason, Apple's iconic all-white sneakers have become the most coveted piece of gear from from Apple's dark years of the mid-90s. Inspired by the iconic design elements of vintage Apple computers, these sneakers are a stylish tribute to the tech revolution that changed the game. Omega Sports made…

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Oakley Built Custom Glasses for Tom Cruise Biggest ‘Mission Impossible’ Stunt Yet

With each Mission Impossible movie it seems Tom Cruise finds new ways to challenge himself with crazier and more daring stunts. The film series' latest entry, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, features what many are calling the biggest stunt in cinema history. And Oakley sunglasses has helped Cruise achieve…

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The Best Motorcycles with Standard ABS For Safe, Enjoyable Rides

You're likely driving a car that has an Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), which debuted in the automotive industry in the late '70s and is pretty much standard equipment on every new car sold in America today. The technology is significant because it enables drivers to maintain steering control during braking,…

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BMW CE 02 Urban eBike

We love when an impressive concept vehicle leads to a successful production model. Case in point: the BMW CE 02, this Urban eBike debuted in 2021 as a one-off concept of an electric bike. But now, it's seeing the light of day. What's most impressive is that few aesthetic changes…

By John A. Paradiso
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Matador Refillable Toothpaste Tubes

I don't know about you, but I'm sick of those tiny travel toothpaste tubes. Not only are they a wasteful use of plastic, I feel like I never have enough toothpaste by the end of my travels. So I was thrilled to come across the Matador Refillable Toothpaste Tubes. The…

By John A. Paradiso
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