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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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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance
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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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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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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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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 Caring Backpack” Is Designed for the Eco-Warrior

Cards on the table, we're huge fans of eco-friendly and green initiatives--especially when they cross our doorstep as incredibly useful, sustainable, and stylish products. Case in point--The Caring Backpack from Celebraintion. Inspired by the lean, functional soldier's backpacks from year's past, and upgraded for the modern eco-warrior, this is a…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Home
Maiullari’s Cooking Box is the Kitchen Solution for Tiny Homes

With the rise of prefabricated houses and tiny home living, we're expecting to see many more all-in-one options like the Cooking Box. Designed by Giovanni Pesce for Maiullari, the Cooking Box is a versatile, mobile, modern kitchen--of sorts. The monobloc, which measure 38.2 inches deep when closed, is made up…

By John A. Paradiso
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Gear
The Wooly Cooler is Perfect for Boozy Picnics

When it comes to coolers, I find it's worth investing in a few for each specific scenario. A hard-shell behemoth for camping, a single bottle cooler for dinner parties, a soft-shell beach cooler. Well, the Wooly Cooler, which just launched on Kickstarter, is ideal for picnics in the park. Milwaukee-based…

By John A. Paradiso
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Phones
Samsung Bets Big on Flip Phones with the Galaxy Z Flip3 5G

Keeping up with the flippancy of cell phone technology feels like a fool's errand. We went from giant, handheld telephones to teeny-tiny pocket phones and now we're heading toward tablet-sized devices. And while it had seemed like the era of the flip phone was done, Samsung is taking a nostalgic…

By John A. Paradiso
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What We’re Drinking: Kane Brewing Co. Head High, Akashi Tai Junmai Daiginjo Genshu, and More

Welcome to ‘What We’re Drinking,’ a recurring column here at Cool Material. Every other week our team of editors will share our favorite beverages we’ve been enjoying and how you can get your hands on them.

By John A. Paradiso
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