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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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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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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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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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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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Freddie Mercury’s 1974 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

We wouldn't ordinarily consider Queen frontman Freddie Mercury a car guy, but this Rolls-Royce says otherwise. Okay, so he actually didn't have a driver's license and spent most of his time being chauffeured around in it, but that's what fame does to you. Purchased in 1979, Mercury was so pumped…

By Amos Kwon
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Dorothy’s Latest Poster Reimagines Classic Video Games as Vintage Postage Stamps

We're big fans of Dorothy's series of Stamp Sheets posters, reimagining pop culture icons as vintage postage stamps. The latest edition from the UK print shop is "Classic Video Games" with artwork inspired by some of the best and most recognizable games in history. The print features 42 video and…

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Lyric Cycles Voodoo e-Bike

As the e-bike market grows, the desire for fresh styles also increases. Canada's Lyric Cycles has created the handsome Voodoo eBike. It uses a trellis frame that's a lot like a motorcycle's and contributes to the overall muscular aesthetic. It even gets a moto front fork and rear mono-shock, big…

By Amos Kwon
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Fashion
The Nodus Retrospect III is an Ode to the Lesser-Known History of Dive Watches

Everything old is new again, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Case in point, the Nodus Retrospect III watch. Made in the spirit of influential but lesser-known vintage dive watches from the 50s, the Retrospect III captures their retro quirkiness while giving them new life and more…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Sweater Is the First Venture Capital Fund We Can All Invest Into

We've all seen enough shows about Silicon Valley to know the broad strokes of venture capital, along with the fact it's reserved for the uber rich. Until now! Sweater is a wealth tech company founded on the mission to accelerate generational wealth creation for everyone through venture investing. By pooling…

By Pat McLaughlin
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