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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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Sports
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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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.

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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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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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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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‘The Book’ Is the Ultimate Modern Guide To Rebuilding a Civilization From Past Knowledge

We've all thought about if and how we'd be able to survive during the apocalypse or if we were transported to the past. What would happen to civilization? Would humanity survive? Would we have to live in a prison? That's where The Book--An Ultimate Civilization Revival Manual comes in. With…

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Fashion
Yema x Worn & Wound Superman Maxi Dial Limited Edition

Yema is a household name in horological circles not because they're titanic like Rolex, Omega, and TAG Heuer but because they're one of the few French watch brands to make a name for themselves. They bring old school dive watch heritage to the game, and their prices are far from…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Brutalist Architecture LEGO Models

When it comes to our personal favorite ways to pass the time, building things with LEGO bricks will always be near the top because the only limit is your imagination. We're similarly fond of brutalist type architecture because it tends to take basic shapes and building materials and utilize them…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Lotus E-R9 Next-Generation EV Endurance Racer

Never let it be said that that the performance motoring community isn't looking far into the future because the latest Lotus design study is all about the Lotus E-R9 Next-Generation EV Endurance Racer, an electric race car they're building for the 2030 season. This dramatic new design includes an active…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Krispy Kreme Is Dropping a Special Mars Donut Today Only

In a few short hours after you're reading this, NASA's Perseverance Rover will make it's epic landing on Mars. With close to 300 million miles traveled at a relative speed of almost 48,000 mph, we feel like this an accomplishment worth celebrating. We're choosing to do this particular round of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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