Skip to Content
Gear
Tech
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
Watches
1

The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

1
Holiday
The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
1
partner
How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
Our Picks

Featured Stories

1
Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pack your bags...

1
Holiday
The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

1
partner
Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
By Travis Haley
1
Outdoors
The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
By Lola Méndez
1
Sports
The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

Pack your bags...

1
Holiday
The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

1
partner
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!

1
Outdoors
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.

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
Partner
Partner

Feeling the Burn

1
2
Sports
Sports

The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
3
Drinks
Drinks

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

1
4
Partner
Partner

Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

1
5
Partner
Partner

The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

1
6
Watches
Watches

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
7
Features
Features

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

1
8
Sports
Sports

The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

1
9
Watches
Watches

150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

1
10
Watches
Watches

I Went Down a Nixon Watch Rabbit Hole. Here Are the 4 Most Surprising Details I Found

From Our Partners

The Latest

Features
10 Bargain Rums Under $30 That Taste More Expensive Than They Are

Rum is a distilled spirit made by fermenting and distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. It’s then bottled and sold as white rum or matured in oak barrels (and sometimes spiced). Rum is made almost everywhere in the world where sugarcane is grown. Obviously, the Caribbean and places like Jamaica,…

By Christopher Osburn
Bargain-Rums-That-Taste-More-Expensive-Than-They-Are
Features
8 Things You Need To Add To Your Beach Day Packing List This Year

If there’s one thing that really encapsulates the best that summer has to offer, it’s the weekend beach trip. Being able to pack up after work on a Friday, drive with your buddies to the nearest body of water, and hang out for a couple of days--well, there’s nothing quite…

By Brett Braley
Beach-Day-Packing-List-2
Fashion
Huckberry and Timex Reissue an Iconic Watch from the ’90s

For every trend that should be left to the '90s (I'm looking at you, JNCO Jeans!), there is one that I am happy to see return. That's exactly how I felt when I read the news that Huckberry and Timex are teaming up to rerelease the iconic IRONMAN Flix Watch.…

By Brett Braley
Ironman-7
Misc
2024 Chevrolet Silverado HD ZR2

Chevy is bringing dedicated off-road goodness to its heavy duty 2500 truck in the form of the new Silverado HD ZR2. The big boy gets a redesigned suspension system with racing-derived Multimatic DSSV spool-valve dampers and a 1.5-inch lift kit. Approach, breakover, and departure angles improve over stock, and it…

By Amos Kwon
Silverado-7
Cameras
Leica’s M11 Monochrom is a Thing of Beauty

The M11 Monochrom is the fourth-generation in Leica's series of black-and-white only cameras, and boy, does it pack a punch. From a purely aesthetic perspective, it's a camera that's sleek and decidedly retro; but it's what's under the hood that counts here. The latest Leica B&W camera is equipped with…

By Brett Braley
Monochrom-6