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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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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
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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
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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Puffco Budsy

Budsy might look like a glorified Nalgene bottle, but it's actually a water pipe. A small ceramic bowl inside the lid holds product, and the under-the-radar look of the BPA-free Tritan bottle keeps things subtle. 420 ml of water is necessary to operate it (get it?), and it kicks into…

By Amos Kwon
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Win a Car and Save the Animals

If there are two things we can all get behind, it's helping out rescue animals and sweet, sweet rides. The National Humane Society (The NHS) is a 501 © (3) Charity dedicated to improving the lives of rescue animals across America, but they can't do it without our help. That's…

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Matchbox CarbonNeutral Tesla Roadster

Environmental consciousness has descended to the diminutive. Mattel, makers of Matchbox toy cars, has embarked on its Drive Toward a Better Future initiative. The first member of this effort is a CarbonNeutral Tesla Roadster made with 99% recycled materials, including recycled zinc for the body and recycled plastic for the…

By Amos Kwon
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This Modular Bike Storage Furniture Has Enough Space for All Your Gear

If you ride your bicycle even a couple days a week, you need a place to store it that's accessible, display worthy and built for all your gear. That's where Riders Gonna Ride and their Bike Box comes in. Available in five different setups based on your needs, Riders Gonna…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Accessories
Ridge Is Expanding Their EDC Collection With Topographic Map Wallets

We've all come a long way from the enormous Costanza-sized billfolds, cheap card cases and gifted leather wallets because we want something a little more sleek and stylish. We want something like the Ridge minimalist, RFID-blocking wallet that's made with carbon fiber, titanium or aluminum and built to stand up…

By Cooper Fleishman
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