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9 Great Websites Every Guy Should Know
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9 Great Websites Every Guy Should Know

The Cool Material team spends a lot of time working to be the best resource for stuff guys want. A lot goes into curating the best of the internet, the best whiskeys every guy needs to know, the top watches in every price range, the coolest vintage rides, and the…

Web’s Best: Steak Sandwiches
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Web’s Best: Steak Sandwiches

You don't need to take sides in the Pat's vs. Geno's war or know what "wiz wit" means to appreciate a good steak sandwich. In fact, you don't even have to make anything remotely similar to what you'd get on the streets of Philly. A great steak sandwich is easy…

12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets
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12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. They’re changing up pieces,…

William Fisk’s Photorealistic Paintings Make Vintage Gadgets Cool Again

If the title of this post didn't immediately give away the fact that these images were paintings, we all would have thought they were photographs. Yes, Canadian artist William Fisk is just that good. From Yashica and Minolta cameras, to rotary telephones, to microscopes, Fisk paints monochromatic vintage gadgets and…

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15 Things We Wanted To Steal From CES 2014

What the news coverage of CES doesn't show you is that 90% of the gadgets you come across there are either old, boring, or simply pieces of junk. Finding interesting, new devices is like hunting for buried treasure. After days of digging, here are the 15 things we wanted to…

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CM’s Top 10 Videos of 2013

Not every post we put up is focused on a tangible object. As much as we love shiny new gadgets and delicious bottles of booze, we also enjoy anything that can entertains us, which is why we toss up videos every now and then. Here are the 10 most popular…

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Exploding Cars

We spend about thirty seconds setting up a shot. Fabian Oefner spends two months. Each of these photographs from his "Disintegrating" series took about that long to create, but, clearly, the results are worth it. The Swiss artist took apart model cars and suspended the various pieces to give the…

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Cool Material’s Big Ass Giveaway

This year's Big Ass Giveaway is bigger (and assier?) than ever. We're giving away over $2200+ worth of seriously awesome prizes to ease your holiday spending woes. Besides one of the sharpest looking speakers to come out this year, the Marshall Stanmore, we selected some of our favorite products from…

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