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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

Must-Reads

Our team’s top picks

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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
Watches

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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Sports
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Watches
Watches

150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Watches
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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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‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Official Trailer

Seven years ago, Keanu Reeves and screenwriter Derek Kolstad changed the landscape of modern action cinema with the release of the first John Wick film. As much blockbuster and media franchise as it was recipe to be duplicated endlessly--especially when it comes to third film in the series that, if…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Dad Grass Is the Perfect Gift for Father’s Day

Time to step up your Father's Day gift game. This year, skip the usual suspects in favor of what you'd want yourself--Dad Grass. It looks, smells, and smokes like cannabis, but it's (almost) THC-free and made with only the finest 100% organic hemp flower to impart a chilled-out, euphoric mood…

By Pat McLaughlin
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Entertainment
Essential Vinyl: 30 Albums Every Record Collector Must Own

Although streaming reigns supreme in the music world, the physical medium has returned with a vengeance. Vinyl record sales have been at an all-time high since the advent of the streaming age. And everyone from your younger cousin to your cool neighbor probably has, at the very least, a modest…

By John A. Paradiso
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Gear
Titan Talon Tool Co. Clavis Plex Key Clip Multi-Tool

When it comes to tools, we've always been of the opinion that they worked a lot like cameras in that the best option was the one you had closest to you at any given time. This sentiment makes keychain / carabiners / multi-tools all the more relevant because you generally…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Wolverine 1000 Mile X Rawlings Boots

Wolverine's latest iteration of their iconic 1000 Mile Boots is the result of a collaboration with Rawlings, the official maker of baseball gloves for the major leagues. Made in the USA with the same supple but tough Horween Heart of the Hide Baseball Glove leather, the boots were created to…

By Amos Kwon
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