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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

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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.

Steals

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 2022 Pappy Van Winkle Lineup Might Be a Little Easier to Get This Year

Pappy Van Winkle remains one of the most elusive, sought-after whiskey brands in the country. Thanks to a combination of hype, scarcity, and genuine quality, bottles of Pappy are quickly snatched up and sold on secondary markets for thousands of dollars - well over the sticker price. As this cycle…

By John A. Paradiso
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Fashion
Shinola Mechanic

Shinola's line of American assembled watches keeps growing in breadth and style. The Detroit brand's latest draws cues from Detroit vintage sign patinters. The Mechanic uses a modestly sized 40mm polished stainless steel cushion-style case, domed sapphire glass, three vivid colorways, and a display back to show off the 42-hour…

By Amos Kwon
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Alex Crane’s Kite Jacket Just Got Updated for Fall

Alex Crane's Kite Jacket has been a favorite of the brand's customers since its inception. With a classic chore coat silhouette, but with the unmistakable mark of price-perfect luxury and sustainable materials, it's a jacket you can throw on or dress up. Now, with colder weather fast approaching, Alex Crane…

By Brett Braley
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Vollebak is Hosting a Treasure Hunt – Here’s How to Enter

Vollebak, a brand dedicated to creating experiential garments for real-world scenarios, is doing something different this week. They're hosting a treasure hunt. Somewhere in the world, the company will be dropping a wardrobe filled with tens of thousands of dollars worth of free gear. And you have two chances to…

By Brett Braley
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STEAL: Amazon Prime Early Access Sale [UPDATING]

Amazon Prime Day is back for the second time this year... except this time around they're calling it the Prime Early Access sale. Today only you can find Black Friday style deep discounts on, well, everything Amazon sells--but mostly their own products--so you can outfit your new home or office…

By Cooper Fleishman
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