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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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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
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

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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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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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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New Balance 997H “Workwear”

If you don't yet have a pair of New Balance lifestyle runners in your style repertoire, the new Workwear colorway for the 997H might just be the end of your excuses. The six colors make it three-seasons ready, and the colorblocking is pretty much perfect. Red, light blue, dark blue,…

By Amos Kwon
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Start Investing Like the Ultra Wealthy With This Alternative Investment Marketplace

The ultra wealthy have access to alternative investment opportunities like art, real estate and finance that  traditionally have been out of reach for the rest of us. Until now. Yieldstreet built a marketplace of investments with a variety of target yields and durations to help you build your financial future…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Gear
This Compact Headlamp Doubles as a Hand Held Light

Our phones are capable of engaging the flash as a light, but they're not a proper flashlight or headlamp like Ledlenser's options. Case in point--the Ledlenser MH5. In addition to being a best-in-class wearable headlamp with up to 400 lumens of bright, white light and an advanced focus system, it…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Fashion
G-Shock GM-2100 Stainless Steel “CasiOak”

G-Shock watches are popular enough with the active/law enforcment/military/outdoorsy crowd to begin with, and then the hexagonal "CasiOak" analog-digital timepiece took the world by storm. Certain colors sold out, and watch modders customized it with metal to mimick the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Now, G-Shock is listening to their adoring…

By Amos Kwon
G-Shock GM-2100 Stainless Steel CasiOak
Accessories
Brooks Aurora-BL

You can up your running game by putting the future on your feet. Brooks' BlueLine Lab recently debuted its Aurora-BL that's packed with an impressive set of running technology in a truly audacious shoe. The nitrogen-injected DNA LOFT v3 cushioning provides cushy strikes, and the Glide Roll heel and toe…

By Amos Kwon
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