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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

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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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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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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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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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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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Machine 1867 KTM 620 Enduro Custom Bobber Motorcycle

Sydney-based Australian bike builder Edi Buffon--better known as custom shop Machine 1867--has been transforming otherwise great stock motorcycles into truly otherworldly creations that expertly combine vintage style and modern construction in a way that few other builders can. Case in point--the Machine 1867 KTM 620 Enduro Custom Bobber Motorcycle you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Vagabund Moto V15 BMW R9T

We love the motos that come out of Austrian builder Vagabund Moto's shop because they take something already great and make it stratospheric. They recently unveiled the V15 (their 15th project) that was built for a customer who wanted no limits. The base bike was a BMW R nineT, which…

By Amos Kwon
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Torsus Announces Upgrades to the Praetorian Off-Road Bus

In the three years since Torsus first introduced its 4x4 off-road bus, the Praetorian has reigned supreme in the category. But, rather than rest on its laurels, Torsus announced earlier this week that it would introduce a suite of upgrades, based off customer feedback, to this rugged beast. So, the…

By John A. Paradiso
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Adidas Announces the ‘4DFWD’ 3D-Printed Running Shoe

Earlier this week, Adidas announced the latest addition to its 4D line of sneakers: the 4DFWD (pronounced "4D forward"). The 4DFWD is just the most recent innovation from the sneaker brand and features a trippy 3D-printed lattice midsole. The result is a shoe that literally propels you forward as you…

By John A. Paradiso
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Jim Heimann and Steven Heller’s “Toys” Covers a Decade of Toy Ads

While toys these days seems to be more concerned with safety regulations and political correctness than they are with the fun for intended users, this wasn't always the case. Jim Heimann and Steven Heller aim to tackle this disconnect with the hardcover, coffee table tome Toys, 100 Years of All-American…

By Cooper Fleishman
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