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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

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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.

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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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Piaggio Is Back with a New Cargo Carrying Robot

When renowned manufacturer Piaggio decided to branch out from the world of scooters and motorcycles into the world of follow behind cargo robots we were honestly a little confused. The first Gita Robot was stylish and well-designed, but it ultimately ended up being a little too costly and cumbersome. Piaggio is…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Clothing
Vollebak Planet Earth Jacket

When it comes to gear designed to last significantly longer than the average human life span, you won't find a better maker than Vollebak. Vollebak more than delivers on those claims with the 100 Year Hoodie, 100 Year Shorts, 100 Year Vest, Full Metal Jacket, and everything else the brand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
The Best Ways to Store and Display Your Vinyl Records

You might think that deciding you want to start collecting records and picking up some of the essential vinyl albums is all you have to think about, but that's just the beginning. You have to think about the best turntables to play your collection on. Then you have to think…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Goose Island Releases Limited-Edition Beer Collab with Faye Webster for Pitchfork Music Festival 2021

Legendary Chicago brewery Goose Island Beer Co. teamed up with indie musician Faye Webster on a limited-release beer collaboration for the recent Pitchfork Music Festival. The limited-edition beer is obviously a helpful piece of marketing - Webster performed at the annual music festival - but proceeds from the beer's release…

By John A. Paradiso
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Food
Lark Distilling Co. Amaro Cask Whisky

For the past 30 years, Lark Distillery Co. has been building their reputation as one of Australia's most famous and premier whisky distilleries. Their latest release is this Amaro Cask Whisky that lets you take your tastebuds on trip from Tasmania to Italy with this captivatingly complex sibling to their…

By Cooper Fleishman
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