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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
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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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
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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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

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Feeling the Burn

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Sports
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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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Drinks
Drinks

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
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
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Features

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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Sports
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Watches
Watches

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

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Watches
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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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Audio
Sonos and IKEA Teamed Up Again for a New Symfonisk Floor Lamp Speaker

Sonos is one of the best brands in the home audio space. IKEA is a household name and a stalwart brand when it comes to furniture. It should come as no surprise that the two have enjoyed a Marvel-esque team-up success story over the years with their line of Symfonisk…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Our 10 Most Popular New Stories in 2022

From EDC to watches to style to motorcycles to bourbon and everything in between, the Cool Material team covered a lot of ground in 2022. The products we recommended and the topics we explored all make it easier for a guy to enjoy a more full life. But there are…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Kohler’s Numi 2.0 Toilet Is as Smart as It Is Expensive

As much as we're big fans of the convenience that smart appliances give us everywhere in the house... we never really thought we'd be advocates for a smart toilet. That is, until we learned about Kohler's Numi 2.0 Dual-Flush Smart Toilet. With a decidedly modern profile filled with geometric lines,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

American engineer, designer, entrepreneur and investor Tony Fadell knows a thing or three about "making things worth making." Over three decades of experience in the world of Silicon Valley is more than enough to reason to read a book he wrote, but his larger claims to fame are being the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Jaxxon Has All Your Stylish Men’s Jewelry Needs Covered

Most guys take a less is more approach when it comes to jewelry. What they want are a few high-quality, stylish pieces to pair with their watch and/or wedding ring and add just the right amount of their outfit. That's where Jaxxon comes in. Jaxxon is most well known for…

By Pat McLaughlin
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