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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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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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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

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

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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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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
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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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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
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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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Fashion
Citizen Super Titanium Promaster Dive Automatic

The Citizen Promaster Diver line is legendary for its chunky looks, robust construction, and dive-ready capabilities. It also happens to be quite affordable in both stainless steel solar quartz and automatic versions, coming in at a couple of hundred bucks. Now, the Japanese brand has created one in lightweight and…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
The Best Cocktail Books for Your Home Bar

Just like naturally talented bakers and chefs work off a recipe, there should be some kind of academic base for our home mixology. And don’t worry. There are plenty of bartenders and enthusiasts out there willing to help us build that base. These are the best cocktail recipe books for…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Home
Shower Together with the Boona Tandem Shower

Put this in the category of gear we didn't think we needed but now we're kind of intrigued by. The Tandem Shower by Boona attempts to solve the apparent problem sharing a shower with a partner. Inevitably one of you is left in the cold, while the other hogs all…

By John A. Paradiso
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Rothsport Road & Race 1985 Porsche 911

Give us sinister vintage Porsche 911s all day long. The latest one comes by way of Oregon-based Rothsport Road & Race. The donor car is a 1985 911 Carrera which was modified with a massaged flat-six engine, limited-slip diff, new Goruop 4 PAG/Campagnolo wheels, upgraded suspension bits, roll bar, heated…

By Amos Kwon
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Grovemade x Blackwing Pencil Kit

Grovemade has added to its collection of desk essentials with a new collaboration with pencil maker Blackwing. The Grovemade x Blackwing Pencil Kit includes 12 custom-designed pencils, an aluminum sharpener with a german steel blade, and a walnut wood stand with built-in slots to display the pencils and the sharpener.…

By John A. Paradiso
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