Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe

Tech

The latest in tech: the newest products, most exciting innovations and biggest releases.

1
Tech
Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026
By Cool Material
The Cool Shop The Cool Shop
Tech
The Cool Shop

What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

By Lanny Fuller
1
Tech
The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

By Cool Material
1
Tech
I Watched USA vs. Bosnia Through the Lens of a Prediction Market

Checking Polymarket throughout the round of 32 game added an interesting perspective to my watching experience. Here are my notes.

By Lanny Fuller
Cameras
The iPhone Telephoto Lens

Scroll through your buddies Facebook page after an Arcade Fire show and you’ll probably see an entire album full of shots of a half-dozen-plus dots on stage.  If you’re going to rely on your iPhone for your picture taking needs you’re either gonna have to invade the personal space of…

By Mike Newman
iphone-telephoto-lens
Audio
Speakr Box

Keep wearing those earbuds at your desk, the beach and your office and eventually you’ll start looking fairly awkward and antisocial - picture Michael Cera with less game.  With the Speakr Box from Buka Projects you can amplify your music literally anywhere you go.  Speakr Box requires no electricity and hooks…

By Mike Newman
SPEAKR-BOX
Audio
Arkcanary II iPhone Speaker

When was the last time you were at a party that didn't involve someone busting out their iPhone and party-jacking the music? We can't say definitively, but it was probably before the iPhone existed. It's ok though, we've all been there and we're guilty of it too. After all, one…

By Cooper Fleishman
arkcanary-ii
Cameras
Nikon COOLPIX P300

If you’ve compared the shots you’ve taken with your pocket-size digital camera to the ones your buddy’s taken with his SLR you’ve most likely felt a bit of an inferiority complex.  Sure, you can carry yours around without a neck-strap or a purse but you might as well be taking pictures…

By Mike Newman
Nikon-COOLPIX P300-Camera
Audio
Deckster First:Class

Our record with audio technology reads like the dating history of John Mayer – a slew of long relationships, a bunch more brief ones and a regretful one-night stand (the minidisc).  Yeah, we’re happy with our mp3’s now, but just like thinking back on a past flame, we sometimes get nostalgic about…

By Mike Newman
deckster-ipod-watchband