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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

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
By Travis Haley
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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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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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Open up New VR Worlds With the HTC Vive Xr Elite Headset

If you want to open yourself up to the world of virtual reality--or the so-called MetaVerse, without cosigning all the Facebook paperwork--your best option is to dial-in (pun very much intended) with the HTC Vive Xr Elite Headset you see here. We'll let the VIVE marketing department take it away…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Redo Your Entire Sock Drawer With London Sock Co.

Socks are one of the greatest ways to add a pop of color or a bold pattern to your look--without having to worry about being too flashy. Throw out all your boring black and white socks because it's time for an upgrade with London Sock Co. With solid color options…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Why Your Next Favorite Rye Whiskey Just Might Be This All-Texas Bottle

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. While bourbon is usually the first spirit to come to mind when thinking about American whiskey, rye has been a staple since the mid-1700s. It’s a must-have for many…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Fashion
CWC Cabot Fifty

Cabot Watch Company (CWC) has been making field watches for the British military for half a century, and they're celebrating their typical understated way with a special edition watch known simply as the Cabot Fifty. It's comprised of a modestly-sized 38mm brass case whose material mimics British military webbing equipment.…

By Amos Kwon
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Buck Mason Field-Spec Collection

Los Angeles menswear brand Buck Mason is a reliable source for most of your everyday style essentials. Here at Cool Material, we consider them one of our favorite go-to brands. And Buck Mason's Field-Spec collection is a perfect example of how they nail the basics. With an expanded release, the…

By John A. Paradiso
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