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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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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.

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
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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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Food
Rye Aged in Absinthe Barrels

Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. and Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. are producing some of the most interesting spirits to come out of Kentucky in ages. It got even more interesting and innovative when the two brands teamed up for something truly special--Peerless x Copper & Kings Rye Aged in…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Volcon Runt Electric Kids Motorcycle

For our money, the Volcon Grunt was one of the best electric motorcycle releases of the past year. Between the durable build quality, huge ground clearance, electric powertrain and swappable batteries, it was destined to make exploring the outdoors more fun than ever. And now, you can bring that same…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
Best Made Rolling Footlocker

Whether you're talking aprons, notebooks, tees or axes, Best Made has always impressed with their modern takes on classic pieces. This is especially true when it comes to their toolboxes and storage containers. Their latest is the Best Made Rolling Footlocker you see here. Made in the USA out of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Home
OneClock Minimalist Analog Timepiece

There's nothing quite as jarring as being woken up from a peaceful slumber to the sounds of what your barely conscious self briefly mistakes as the world burning down around you. Alarm clocks suck. OneClock is not an alarm clock, it's described as the "world's first waking clock." The OneClock…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
Tapping Finger Kinetic Sculpture

When it comes to objects that are fun to look at and experience but serve no useful purpose, you won't find better than the works of artist Nik Ramage, the self-described "sculptor of useless machines and absurd devices." His piece Fingers began as a one-off made in 2003 as a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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