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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
Our Picks

Featured Stories

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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
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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Outdoors
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.

Steals

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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Sports
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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
Drinks

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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762-Horsepower Hydrocar

Amphibious vehicles aren't exactly practical, but they're certainly gawk-worthy. Such is the case with the massive yellow Hydrocar. Built back in the early 2000s, the Hydrocar houses a Chevy big block V8 engine good for 762 horsepower and can go from road to waves without skipping a beat. The Hydrocar…

By Amos Kwon
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Gear
The Vessel Eclipse Kit Is Perfect for the High Brow Smoker

It's no secret that stoner gear has gotten significantly classier in recent years. Gone are the days of ratty drug rugs and "anything will do" smoking vessels. Today's weed gear is stylish, functional, and, at times, decorative. If you need a further example, just check out Vessel. The cannabis accessory…

By John A. Paradiso
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Gear
Terrain 365 Otter Flip-AT Pocket Knife

Everyone knows that EDC should include a solid workhorse pocket knife you can use for all your essential cutting tasks. How do you pick just the right one for you? If you're interested in sleek, stylish and sharp--along with all terrains performance--you opt for the Terrain 365 Otter Flip-AT Pocket…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel’ Official Trailer

Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is one of our favorite films of the last few years, and the critics agreed with us because it had hundreds of award wins and nominations. In case you haven't heard, Tarantino is expanding on the world of the film and its characters…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Phones
Protect Your iPhone in Style With This Sustainable Phone Case

Whether it's maps, emails, music, podcasts, work or notes, we use our smartphones for everything. Our iPhone never leaves our side, and this essential piece of EDC needs to be protected from drops, slips and screen cracks because it wasn't cheap. That's where Incipio's Sustainable Grip Case comes in. Made…

By Pat McLaughlin
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