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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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Sports
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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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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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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The 5 Best Places To Buy Vintage T-shirts Online

I suspect if I were to survey a group of guys, most would say that their favorite shirt to wear to bed or to hang out is one that has been washed, faded, and worn to hell. There’s something comfortable that a new shirt off the rack just can’t replicate.…

By Brett Braley
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The 10 Best ’80s Comedies Every Guy Should See

If you go decade by decade and rank each one based on the number (and quality) of comedy movies, it’s pretty difficult to beat the prowess of the 1980s. Go ahead and try. The decade begins in 1980 with Caddyshack, one of the most iconic, quotable comedies of all time…

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Tesla GigaBier

Elon Musk has hinted at many strange and surreal products for Tesla. And, surprisingly, a few of the stranger promises have been delivered. In 2020 Tesla launched its own tequila, which promptly sold out in a matter of hours. And now in 2023 Tesla is offering GigaBier, a limited-edition Cybertruck-inspired…

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The Todd Snyder Sportsman Are The Sunglasses of Summer

King of collabs, Todd Snyder, has teamed up with Randolph Engineering on a new capsule of sunglasses which are at once impossibly cool and daringly modern. Available in two sizes (47 and 61 millimeter) and two colorways (gold or gunmetal), these glasses are a classic aviator-style with a twist. On…

By Brett Braley
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Seiko Prospex Mechanical GMT Watches

If you don't have a Seiko in your watch collection, you're totally missing out on some of the best watches for the money. Their latest releases (among many) consist of three mechanical GMT watches, two permanent releases and one limited edition. The SPB381, SPB383, and the Save the Ocean Limited…

By Amos Kwon
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