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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

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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 Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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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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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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Twelve South HoverBar Duo Tablet Stand

When it comes to highly functional and stylish desk accessories that are purpose built to work with the entire range of Apple iDevices, you won't find better options than what Twelve South has been releasing for years. Their latest release--the Twelve South HoverBar Duo Tablet Stand--is an adjustable iPad stand…

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The L.E.A.D. YEZO Retreat Is Something Straight Out of Fantasy Fiction

Nestled in the northern mountain range of Hokkaido, Japan, you'll find YEZO, a small retreat design and built by the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (aka L.E.A.D.), an international, multiple award-winning architecture design and research practice that's been innovating for a decade. YEZO takes advantage of the dramatic landscape…

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The Latest Clarks Original Is a Wallabee Combined With Gore-Tex

When it comes to iconic footwear that doesn't display the swoosh, pouncing cat or three stripes, you won't find many brands more ingrained in popular culture than Clarks with the likes of their Desert Boot and Wallabee Shoe. The Wallabee Shoe has been a constant staple in our rotation since…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Stipfold Angular Blackbird Cabin

While we've all jotted down notes and sketches for projects during night's out among friends, few of them turn into anything more than unfettered creativity with the free-flowing exchange of ideas. The Stipfold Angular Blackbird Cabin was born out of the same unfiltered creative process, but it actually resulted into…

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Puma x Nemen Centaur Special Edition Sneakers

Italian menswear brand Nemen recently teamed up with Puma for two separate iterations of the Centaur sneaker that draw inspiration from the worlds of motorsport racing and military gear. In practice, that means highly technical and extremely functional kicks ala Nemen's core ideals and concepts that are rendered through the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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