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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty

The brand that invented unbreakable style just made its two most iconic watches even sharper.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

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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 Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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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

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The Bremoir Lexington Puts Art Deco on Your Wrist

The visual language of the 1920's was defined by sleek, geometric patterns, unparalleled elegance, and a stylized form that showed a globalized landscape of inspiration. During the Roaring Twenties, the Art Deco style dotted the New York skyline, including Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, and the Chrysler Building. Now,…

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Tropicfeel Has All Your Adventure Gear in One Place So You Don’t Have to Shop Around

Committed to inspiring conscious travel since their launch in 2017, Tropicfeel is a Barcelona, Spain based gear brand that offers innovative products that are versatile, sustainable and high-performance. That means you're getting all the best adventure-ready bags, sneakers, clothes and accessories for damn near the best prices--without having do any…

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It’s Time to Invest In a Dive Watch. Here’s Where To Start

My first dive watch happened to be a pretty fancy one. My father wanted to buy me a nice timepiece for my college graduation way back in 1993. I'm pretty sure my GPA or my utter lack of any diving intentions didn't qualify me for the watch I wanted, but…

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Meet the Next Generation of Footwear Designers Apprenticing at New Balance

Shoe designs feel inherently personal. Footwear can say a lot about a person, whether it’s a reliable classic or a rare vintage find bought off a sneakerhead on Ebay. But what a shoe says doesn’t start with the person doing the styling. It starts with the person who designed the…

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BMW i Vision Dee

Forget everything you know about BMW, both past and present. The i Vision Dee shows us one radical future, and it just debuted at CES 2023. The car stands for Digital Emotional Experience, and that's made apparent via the color-changing and mood-communicating grille, the talking virtual assistant, full-windshield head-up display,…

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