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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
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Featured Stories

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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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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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Editors' Picks

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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Drinks
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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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Smokey Bear Playing Cards

Now that camping season has begun, what better way to entertain the gang than with some nostalgic Smokey Bear playing cards? The deck art is illustrated by Sam Larson and comes to you courtesy of a collaboration between Art of Play and the USDA Forest Service. Various woodland creatures such…

By Amos Kwon
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Dunkin’ Collaborates with Backdrop on Limited-Edition Wall Paint Collection

Interior design is all the rage these days. With so much time spent at home, we've seen an increased interest in decor, furniture, and home goods. And the big players want in. The chain coffee and donut company Dunkin' just announced that it'd be teaming up with Backdrop to release…

By John A. Paradiso
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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck

Ford Motor Company is reviving an old name from its storied past, the F-150 Lightning. But this time, the label will get slapped on its first all-electric truck instead of a performance offshoot of the gas-powered version like it did in 1993 with the supercharged V8 F-150 SVT Lightning. The…

By Amos Kwon
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The Re-SOHKO Transform Box Is a Mobile Manufacturing Space You Can Build DIY

Japan is a small island with limited space and a lot of people, so it should come as absolutely no surprise that they're masters of maximizing the space they have to work with. Design firm NOSIGNER teamed up with OPEN SOHKO DESIGN to create the Re-SOHKO Transform Box, a mobile…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur Program

Let's say no run-of-the-mill Porsche on the showroom floor will suffice. You can always special order yours online and outfit it more or less the way you want (it'll cost ya). Well, the Stuttgart automaker wants to go one further by expanding their Exclusive Manufaktur Program that creates bespoke versions…

By Amos Kwon
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