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The Watch That Proves Toughness Has Always Been a Kind of Elegance

G-SHOCK didn’t just evolve into refinement. It’s been quietly building toward it from the start.

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Good, Better, Bezel: How G-SHOCK’s G-STEEL Keeps Toughening Up Beauty
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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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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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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Filson Alcan Moto Collection

The American "Unfailing Goods" brand wants to go adventure motorcycling with you. For the very first time, Filson is bringing a special collection to the world of off-road motorcycling, and they've brought a fusillade of gear to prep you for dirty, two-wheeling fun. The limited release Alcan Collection is comprised…

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Accessories
Deckers Lab KO-Z Mule Slippers

If you had asked us if we were slipper people a year ago, the response would have been a resounding "no." You come home from work, take your shoes off, kick back and relax in your socks. Why does anyone need slippers or house shoes outside of when they're traveling?…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nairobi Entrepreneur Creates Super-Tough Bricks from Plastic Waste

If you lack inspiration in your life, just take a look at young Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, who decided to do something real about the plastic waste in her country. Her startup company Gjenge Makers is taking tons of plastic waste, combining it with sand, and forming…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
Aleph Farms Cultivated Rib-Eye Steak

If the thought of a plant-based, 3D printed steak makes you want to run for cattle-covered hills, then take a look at this real beef ribeye created in the lab. Israel-based Aleph Farms, along with the Isreal Institue of Technology, just created the very first ribeye steak cultivated in a…

By Amos Kwon
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Curtiss the One Electric Motorcycle

When it comes to electric motorcycles, there are the rid es that roll out of Alabama-based Curtiss Motorcycles and everything else. Curtiss continues their namesake's century long period of innovation that includes the likes of the Psyche electric motorcycle and Zeus electric motorcycle with the One you see here. Curtiss…

By Cooper Fleishman
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