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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)
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Give drink lovers gifts like these. And they'll make you good drinks in return. Win, win.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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The Coolest Gifts for Drink Lovers for 2025

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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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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

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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U-Boat Worx UWEP (Underwater Entertainment Platform) Submarine Is Fit For a Bond Villain

When it comes to submarines--who are we kidding here, we don't know anything about submarines outside of pop culture, but if we did, we'd want to go out in style--which brings us to the Bond villains, the penultimate (I love submarines) class as it were. While submarines have been used…

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The Long-Rumored Google Pixel Watch Has Finally Been Unveiled

After the better part of a decade of teasing, Google's Pixel Smart Watch is finally set to grace the wrists of us normal folk in the fall of this year... if things go to plan, anyway. The smartwatch that was designed to compete with the Apple in the room was…

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Dogfish Head Releases Fermentation Engastration, the ‘Turducken of Beers’

The world of craft beer is well known for its experimentation with style and flavors. For better or worse, innovation breeds new beer categories and keeps the industry fresh and interesting. And experimentation isn't limited to just beer. Brewers take inspiration from winemakers, winemakers dabble in co-ferments with cidermakers, and…

By John A. Paradiso
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The 12 Best Grills for Summer 2022

It’s getting to the time of year when our kitchens languish because we’ve started cooking all our meals outside. Which means we’ve started looking at grills again. We’ve organized the list by price--low to high--and weighted it so most of the picks are below a thousand. There are a few…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Leica Trinovid 8×40 “LIFE edition” Binoculars

The camera wizards at Leica have launched a brand new pair of hype-worthy binoculars perfect for summertime adventures. These limited-edition Trinovid 8x40 binoculars were made in collaboration with Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. The "LIFE edition" binoculars were made to be a collector's item, an homage to the classic binocular design…

By John A. Paradiso
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