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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
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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
Watches

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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BMW Is Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the M Marquee with Special Edition Throwback Badges Next Year

While the changing of the calendar year to 2022 will mark the end of the nonsense from the past few years for most of us, it also marks the 50 year anniversary for BMW's M Performance division. BMW M Series vehicles have always outperformed even their German brethren in the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Clothing
The Huckberry Holiday Gift Guide Has Options for Everyone on Your List

When people ask us about the holiday gifts we want, we always refer to them to Huckberry. Partially because it seems disingenuous to refer them to our own guides, but more importantly because the team at Huckberry always seems to uncover a few choice pieces we never knew we wanted…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Gift a Taste of the Dominican to Everyone on Your List (Or Yourself) With La Aurora’s Cigar Samplers

Whether you're shopping for the people that enjoy a good cigar, or fulfilling requests for what to buy you , La Aurora has you covered with their Cigar Sampling Packs. The original Dominican Cigar company that has been hand-rolling high-quality cigars for over a century, La Aurora lets you give…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Playboy Is Once Again Taking to the Skies with the Latest Version of the Big Bunny Jet

Despite the fact that the type of content Playboy originally released is now available in far greater detail, at higher resolution, from multiple angles, and even in VR--for free, no less!--the bunny brand remains a cultural touchstone to this day. Playboy is once again taking to the skies with a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Adsum x Merrell 1TRL Hut Moc Slippers

Brooklyn-based menswear brand Adsum has teamed up with outdoor icon Merrell on a cozy, comfy collaboration perfect for the holiday season. The Adsum x Merrell 1TRL Hut Moc is an ultralight slip-on that can be worn inside or out. With a perforated suede upper and collapsible heel section, it can…

By John A. Paradiso
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