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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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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
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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

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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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

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 Segway Navimow Robot Lawn Mower Is the Lawn Maintenance Innovation We Want

Robotic lawn mowers--Grass Roombas as we like to call them--are nothing new. There are already quite a few options on the market but they're either absurdly expensive or require you to plant a perimeter fence for guidance data. That's where the Segway Navimow Robot Lawn Mower comes in. This robot…

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Spice Things up With This Wearable, Remote-Controlled Stimulation Ring

Remote-controlled pleasure devices have been around since before cell phones were common, but they were primarily available for the fairer sex. The We-Vibe Bond is a wearable, remote-controlled stimulation ring  designed to maximize curious and adventurous intimacy whether you're the one wearing it beneath your clothes or the one controlling…

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The Matrix 4 Resurrections Teaser Trailer

A teaser trailer for the highly anticipated fourth installment in The Matrix film series finally hit the internet on September 7th. Unlike standard movie releases, The Matrix Resurrections follows in the unique marketing of its predecessors by debuting clips of the film via whatisthematrix.com. Here, you can choose to take…

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High as a Kite: A Guide to Marijuana

There's something so undeniably cool about vintage tattoo art. Hell, it's how Ed Hardy became so popular. High as a Kite: A Guide to Marijuana is a recently released book that celebrates contemporary and vintage tattoo art and its intersection with weed culture. Inside this beautiful publication, you'll find photography,…

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Finn Optics Just Launched a New Line of High Performance Sunglasses With the HighTail

Ray-Ban. Persol. Oliver Peoples. Shwood. Barton Perreira. Jacques Marie Mage. Warby Parker. Oliver Spencer. Garrett Leight. Jack Spade. With more than the better part of a dozen great sunglasses manufacturers, it can be hard to figure out which pair is right for you. If you want extreme performance regardless of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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