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Our Go-to Albums for Hosting

7 albums that set the mood so you can worry about the food and whether you have enough ice.

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The Case for Nashville as Your Next Golf Getaway
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy
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The $1,200 Sneaker Giveaway ​

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

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

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Our team’s top picks

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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What We're Buying

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

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story

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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

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

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Arctic Portable Blue Laser

The product description on webpage reads fairly normally at first:  the laser emits a 445nm blue, high power 1W beam which appears up to 4000% brighter than other lasers.  Pretty cool, and pretty standard.  Then, right down at the bottom, they lay this out--"Saying this laser is extremely dangerous is…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Drinks
World’s Smallest Corkscrew

There are dozens of clever solutions to opening a bottle of beer when you have no bottle opener: the edge of a table, a lighter, and if you're desperate, your teeth.  But opening a bottle of wine is a different story--you need a corkscrew, and corkscrews don't exactly fit on…

By Wylie Overstreet
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Clothing
To A Tee: 2010 FIFA World Cup

Here in the U.S, the World Cup might not be cause for excitement, but for the rest of the world, not paying attention is equal to watching 60 Minutes instead of the SuperBowl. Today the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa kicks off to much fanfare around the globe. Representing…

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Contests & Give-Aways
GIVEAWAY: Elgin Oval Jeweled Cufflinks

The Giveaways here at Cool Material show no signs of stopping. You still have seven whole days to enter to win a TSOVET CS130110 but here we go again (hopefully not on our own) with another giveaway. We've already given away watches, wallets, bags, and grooming products so since we…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cameras
Lomography Spinner 360° Camera

Unless you're Tony Hawk 360 degrees of anything is pretty damned impressive. But even Tony Hawk finds ripcords impressive. Parachutes, inflatables, GI Joe characters - everything that somehow involves a ripcord is awesome. This is especially true when the product in question is a camera that shoots 360 degree panoramas…

By Cooper Fleishman
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