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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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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
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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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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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Vollebak Apocalypse Jacket

Whether you're concerned about the oncoming apocalypse or just really like the fashion choices of The Walking Dead, Vollebak has you covered. Their new Apocalypse Jacket is engineered to withstand the wear and tear of the end times. Seriously. Built with a blend para-aramid and polybenzimidazole, the exterior of this…

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Sleep Better and Feel Better With This Game-Changing Wearable

Stress messing with your sleep? Melt feelings of anxiety away with Apollo, the physician and neuroscientist-developed wearable that helps your body manage stress better. Wear the Apollo device on your wrist or ankle and let touch therapy take over. Apollo sends silent, soothing vibrations through the body to calm your…

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2022 Aston Martin DBX707

A bunch of automotive purists laughed when Porsche made its first SUV, the Cayenne (hot like a pepper, baby!), way back in 2003. Porsche laughed all the way to the bank, and pretty much every premium brand now has a performance SUV. Well, the new king of that hill could…

By Amos Kwon
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Louis Vuitton Tambour Horizon Light Up Connected Watch

Combining equally extreme worlds of style and tech, the LV Tambour Horizon Light Up connected watch has an always-on 1.2-inch round AMOLED screen, a ring of 24 trefoil-styled LEDs for a clean aesthetic, and sapphire glass encasing the entire face. You can choose 8 dial styles, 11 gradient displays, customized…

By Amos Kwon
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Madre Mezcal x Yardy World Cooking & Cocktail Salts

Madre Mezcal has quickly become one of the most exciting spirits brands in the food & beverage scene. The artful, Instagrammable Mezcal producers have reintroduced a new generation of drinkers to the complex, historic spirit. With excellent branding and a stellar product, Madre Mezcal is already popping up on the…

By John A. Paradiso
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