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

Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

1
Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
1
Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
Features
We Tried to Rebuild a Vintage Motorcycle in One Month

For some time now, we've had this dream of building an office bike. The idea being to find an old ride that's seen better days, fix it up, and use it for rides around CM HQ. It's a thought we've tossed around over beers for ages. Well, about a month ago, we got to…

By Mike Newman
cm-bike-build-reveal-small
Transportation
The Digimoto Is a Motorcycle Designed in Virtual Reality

We are just scratching the surface when it comes to the potential of virtual reality. As proof, look what industrial designer Christian Zanzotti along with GRAYDEV and Wunderlich just built with some VR assistance. The Digimoto started life as a BMW R1200R. Then, after completely dismantling it, Zanzotti donned a…

By Mike Newman
digimoto-vr-motrocycle
Features
The Weirdest Alcohol Money Can Buy

The consumption of alcohol is about as straightforward as human activities can get. You get alcohol and put it in your body. Do that six or seven times and you’ve participated in an activity older than literacy. Alcohol delivering liquids are less straightforward. Different cultures ferment different things. For most…

By Dillon McLaughlin
weirdest-alcohol-money-can-buy
Entertainment
Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook

Mobb Deep's Albert "Prodigy" Johnson joins Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez on the list of renowned prison cooks/authors with the release of Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook. The follow up to Prodigy's My Infamous Life, also co-written by critically-acclaimed journalist and author Kathy Iandoli, has plenty of recipes that were developed…

By Cooper Fleishman
commissary-kitchen-my-infamous-prison-cookbook
Transportation
The Cool Material Bike Build: The Reveal

About a month ago, we had this idea of building an office bike, a motorcycle we could all use for quick trips around town. It was a pipe dream, really. We needed time and money, so we dropped the idea. Then we got to talking with Motorcycle Mechanics Institute, and…

By Matt Faisetty
cm-bike-build-part-5-mast-v4