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Cool, January 2026

Cool, January 2026

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Bowl Season Gear by Nike
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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

New year essentials.

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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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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
By Travis Haley
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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

New year essentials.

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Holiday
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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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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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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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

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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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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The Best Wine Glasses

Today's young wine industry takes things much less seriously than in years past. The colorful world of natural wine has hit the mainstream and, while many of the wines can look and taste just like traditional, commercial wine, there's a fun-first approach to drinking and enjoying wine. As such, the…

By John A. Paradiso
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Mercedes-Benz X 350D 6-Wheeler “Black Edition”

Does anyone need an off-road Mercedes-Benz pickup truck capable of tackling any object in its path? The answer to that is probably not... especially when it has three axles, six wheels, and was almost completely rebuilt from the ground up by Classic Youngtimers to be a grizzly behemoth on the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Microsoft’s Flowspace Pod Brings At-Home Privacy to the Workplace

Despite what you may think, Microsoft is brand that's truly way more about everything but the Windows operating system you trust them for. Case in point--the Microsoft Flowspace Pod you see here. Designed by a Microsoft Office Envisioning Team led by Anton Andrews--and winner of a 2021 'Best of the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Five Trail Whiskey

Molson Coors, the makers of many a dive bar staple including Miller High Life and Coors Banquet, has officially entered the spirit category with a full-strength Kentucky whiskey. Five Trail American Blended Whiskey is the result of a partnership with Bardstown Bourbon Company, which created this whiskey by blending a…

By John A. Paradiso
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New Balance is Offering 25% Off Sitewide. Right Now.

New Balance. You know the name well. For good reason. In our eyes, they’ve reached classic status. Find someone who doesn’t recognize the iconic “N” on their sneakers. We’ll wait. Actually, we don’t have time to wait. Because their Cyber Monday sale is happening from the 26th to the 30th.…

By Pat McLaughlin
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