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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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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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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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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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Balvenie French Oak 16-Year-Old

Scotland's beloved The Balvenie Distillery has added a new scotch to its core lineup for the first time in just about a decade. Introducing Balvenie French Oak 16-Year-Old. This latest cask-finished expression is now the second oldest of the lineup and rightfully displays that impressive maturity. The whisky goes through…

By John A. Paradiso
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Jason Momoa Teams Up with Harley-Davidson Once Again

There is something wonderful about seeing the collaboration between Jason Momoa and Harley-Davidson. Yes, of course, both collaborators are bad ass, but it goes a bit deeper than that for me. Considering Momoa’s Hawaiian roots, being able to see this influence on a decidedly (mainland) American brand shows just how…

By Brett Braley
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Accessories
Stilform AEON Pencil

Pens, we get. But it's tough to get excited about pencils, until now, that is. The Stilform AEON is more than just a pencil. You can swap the magnetic tips from a conventional graphite pencil head to a metal tip that actually writes. Not only does it minimize waste on…

By Amos Kwon
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Blackout Wicks Premium Soy Candles Complement Your Favorite Brews

Whenever someone mentions "premium soy candles" we generally stop listening... but thankfully, that didn't happen when we heard about Blackout Wicks. Their premium soy candles are packaged in recycled craft beer bottles, and made to smell like things you actually want to smell--as opposed to options like ginger lemon hibiscus…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Learn a New Language in Under a Month by Spending Just 10 Minutes a Day With Babbel

Learning new languages is hard, but it doesn't have to be with Babbel. In just 10 minutes a day, the the subscription-based language learning platform can get you confidently conversing in a new tongue in just three weeks. Yes, you read that correctly. Less than a month! It's not your…

By Pat McLaughlin
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