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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
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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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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.

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The best deals and offers on the web

Editors' Picks

A curated selection of our favorite gear

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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
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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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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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SUPER73 x Saint Laurent Limited Edition Electric Bike

Beloved electric bike manufacturers SUPER73 have teamed up with fashion brand Saint Laurent on an exclusive limited-edition release. The SUPER73-S2 Electric Bike showcases modern performance with classic aesthetics. The all-black matte frame, custom leather seats, leather handles, and single headlight are timeless, imparting a sense of cool that belongs to…

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Bring Your Favorite Cocktails on the Go with Golden Rule Spirits

I tend to be skeptical of ready-to-drink cocktails. Who doesn't have time to whip up a relatively simple drink for themselves? But, there's something to be said about the convenience factor of cracking open a can of your favorite cocktail. So I was intrigued when I came across Golden Rule…

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2022 Mazda CX-50

Mazda builds some of the best vehicles for on-pavement driving enthusiasts, and now they want to take things off-road. That's where the new CX-50 comes into play. About the size of the current and very popular CX-5 crossover, the CX-50 is more squared-off, wider, and geared more towards dirt, gravel,…

By Amos Kwon
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The GlenDronach 12 Year Scotch and Point Reyes White Cheddar Pairing

Looking to upgrade your weeknight dinner party? Try a unique scotch and cheese pairing. The GlenDronach Distillery has teamed up with California-based Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. for a holiday pairing experience. Available for shipping in select states, the combo includes a bottle of The GlenDronach Original Aged 12 Years…

By John A. Paradiso
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Hyundai Seven Concept

Hyundai is going all-in on EVs, and its latest show pony is the Seven Concept. The EV crossover might just be a concept for now, but it's a precursor to the upcoming Ioniq 7 EV that will show up in dealerships within less than two years. The "Parametric Pixel" lighting…

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