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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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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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Clothing
IJJI Work Jacket is Function and Fashion

Since 2016, IJJI has been making genderless clothing that’s heavily inspired by traditional workwear and Japanese design elements. This is most noticeable in their work jacket, which has all the functionality you’ll need for the kitchen, garden, or hike at Big Sur. Constructed from a tight-weave Japanese canvas, this jacket…

By Brett Braley
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Accessories
Get This Wes Anderson Wallet

Very Troubled Child has produced bags and travel accessories inspired by Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, most notably their Savannah pattern, which is reminiscent of the Louis Vuitton luggage suite used in the 2007 film. Since then, they have expanded their lines to include leopards, zebras, and birds (oh my!).…

By Brett Braley
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Home
Roborock Has Reinvented the Future of Cleaning With the S7 Robot

Whether you're cleaning for a party, keeping things tidy just because or picking up after your favorite animals, you need a powerful vacuum and mopping system to keep things in check. That's where Roborock comes in. The world's-first sonic mopping system with intelligent lift technology on a robot vacuum delivers…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Fashion
The Pungent History of Men’s Cologne and Perfume

We’re going to take you through the history of cologne, but we wanted to start with a caveat. The history of personal fragrances is a rich person’s history. Perfumery has always cost an enormous amount of time and resources, so most of us regular people would have been walking around…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Rolex: The Impossible Collection

Budding watch collectors should add this stunning coffee table book to their library. Rolex is perhaps the most famous watch brand in the world and its reputation as a status symbol and genuinely high-quality watch is unimpeachable. Rolex: The Impossible Collection celebrates the brand's legacy as watchmakers and lays out…

By John A. Paradiso
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