Outdoors

TRAK's roots are as a utility knife for commercial divers, and its name suggests the mini blade has been redesigned for runners. But TRAK's makers say the ultra-lightweight titanium anywhere knife will be a welcome piece...

When you're camping and need to take a whiz in the middle of the night, why use some weak ass lantern or stick flashlight to shine a hazy path in front of you when you can use an X9R Marauder 25,000 lumen flashlight to...

If you're goin' fishin' for some rebar, best not forget your 1,000-pound pull force fishing magnet! Yes, that's right. One. Thousand. Pounds. Of pure neodymium attraction. Best also not forget and slip this thing in your...

Just a few lucky ducks will be able to jungle boogie down with this Jungle Dagger. Ryan Johnson has designed and produced a pre-production run of the blade for RMJ Tactical, 50 pieces total, handcrafted to ensure their...

You could probably repurpose some tie-down straps you already have into the equivalent of Beach Chair Buddy towel straps. Or just get a length of nylon and secure one of those side squeeze buckles to it. But if you're...

Gerber's Pack Hatchet is a little dude with a big mouth. At just under 9-1/2" long, the camping axe is easily packed into or clipped onto outdoor gear. Gerber beefs up its functionality with a full tang construction and...

Mmmm, fresh naan bread and tandoori chicken fresh from The Home Tandoor. Indian takeout that just opened, nope, not in the strip mall 15 minutes away, but in my backyard. Puri Tandoors makes traditional Indian clay ovens...

This mosquito-zapping camping lantern might not carry the same level of campground entertainment as the Bug-A-Salt Shotgun and The Executioner bug zapper racquet, but it does do double duty as UV bearer of electrocution...

The Microsilk-handled Nyala Knife is Best Made's second collaboration with industrial biotechnology firm Bolt Threads. Following the success of 2017's Cap of Courage, Bolt suggested spinning their same bio-engineered...

If you're trippin' over tras and trarcoal, try a Traeger. Clever, right? Right?! But I interviewed for a position on the Traeger wood pellet grill marketing team, and they didn't like it. I didn't get the job. They told...

No space or cash for a Big Green Egg? Try a Little Red Akorn. The Akorn Jr., a kamado-style grill and smoker from Char-Griller, shrinks the charcoal-powered, ovo-shaped barbecue down to 153 square inches of cast iron...

I wouldn't call the Hitch Hotel the Ritz-Carlton of trailers and campers. But with it's compact, easily towed design, multi-functional use, and expandability and efficiency as a sleeping space, the Hitch Hotel is definitely...

Stacked compact for you but designed with your dog in mind. The H2O4K9 water bottle and travel bowl for dogs combines a 25-ounce food-grade stainless steel bottle with a twist top lid whose funky mullet shape allows you...

Zucchetti. Kos debuted their Quadrat Pool Relax, a syntactically strange name for a mini infinity pool with attached platform and lounger, in April 2018 at the Milan Furniture Fair (Salone del Mobile.) Zucchetti. Kos...

Turn your grill on, turn your girl on. Cuisinart implies it with their new Venture Portable Gas Grill, whose photo shoot is consumed by a delightful young lady and some punk dude having a romantic cookout on the beach...

Grovemade used the Japanese higonokami knife as inspiration for their new Titanium Minimalist Knife, so if you don't have $200 to spend on a new pocket folder, feel free to get an actual Japanese higonokami for minus...

Sliding your steak into an inferno would normally sound like a rough fate for the poor bastard. But in the case of NorthFire's INFERNO, a single propane infrared grill, you could be doing the meat - and yourself - a great...

Though still just a concept, it looks like the D-Mask, a SCUBA mask with smart features that fits over the diver's whole face, could take the Tribord Easybreath snorkeling mask to new heights depths...

Someone must have dumped a couple pina coladas nestled in this shark beverage bar's cup holders down his throat, because all this Jaws is wants to use his gnashing teeth for is to bite down on a big, dopey grin...

The Trailblazer LED flashlight swivels and bends so your body doesn't have to. The outdoor torch has an adjustable head you can control exactly where its 4000K focus beam is pointing. It makes navigating nighttime conditions...

Despite the douk-douk's playful name, plus its tribal handle engraving and doodle-y blade design, this is not a pocket knife to play with. It's been used as a utility knife in the French colonies in Oceania since 1929...

Nata chance that overgrown bush is gonna get the best of you this time! (Ladies, I'm talking to you too.) The Japanese Nata Tool from Barebones Living is a hatchet made to thwack! through brush and strip bark, plank wood...

A floating dock split in the center by a water hammock? Oh hell yeah. I don't even have anywhere to float them, but I'll take two, please. Think the airline will accept them as oversize luggage on me and She-Ra: Princess...

One thing I've learned over the past year is that I will never, ever be able to afford a new house where I live. Or a modern house. Or a craftsman, a rambler, or a crumbling POS either. Whatever. Home ownership is for...