Outdoors

More than a watch and more accessible than your phone, the Dakota Knife Clip is a multi-tool growing out of a carabiner providing latchable, fast contact with a clock, knife, scissors, LED microlight, and compass. The...

When using a knife it's usually helpful to be able to see what you're doing. And since it's not always easy or practical to bring your knife to the light, SOG Specialty Knives and Tools has decided to bring the light...

While men tend to crave something that will blow all year long, come fall and winter that longing becomes particularly poignant. Leaves and snow, raking and shoveling, they're hard work begging to be turned into easy...

Sure you can light your path just as bright, for just as long, and hands-free with an LED headlamp, but...maybe you don't like wearing bulbous lights on your head. Maybe you like your illuminating glow emanating from...

In New Orleans the holy trinity of cooking might be onion, bell pepper, and celery, but in Char-Broil's Big Easy the holy trinity of cooking is roasting, grilling, and smoking. Do them all with just one grill, and do...

Rather than protect your skin from the sun UTHERMIC's Coldscreen harnesses energy from your own body heat to protect it from the harsh, bitter chill of winter air. This is terrific news for people who are cold all the...

Whether a manly gift from someone else or one you give to yourself, getting a Gorilla Cart is bittersweet. Sure, the heavy-duty hauler and dumper means moving and unloading yard waste, firewood, and 50-pound bags of Ice...

The Garden Igloo isn't just an igloo (of sorts) it's an igloo multi-tool (of sorts). The transparent geodesic dome has been "proofed" for both winter use as a sealed enclosure able to absorb and retain heat from the sun...

You might be slated to carve the turkey this year, but have you signed up to hunt, shoot, field dress, and butcher it too? Browning says its DIY Butcher Kit comes with a blade "for every cutting chore imaginable." Hunters...

Some people really like to eat outside (me). Other people really like to complain about how it's too cold to eat outside (my girlfriend). Put those people together and you'll get one of 3 things: arguments; silent resentment;...

I may not have designed it, or forged it, or carved it myself, but I sure as Shine-Ola used my own two hands to emboss my pocket knife with this two-headed grizzly bear. Yessir, I sure did want it to have two heads. It's...

Know what I'm thinking about right now? 730 square inches of smoked meat. Here's why: in the United States October 12 is Columbus Day. A good day for the 4 or 5 people who actually get off work for it, a BS non-holiday...

I showed my girlfriend the Ultraskiff 360 and she asked if it was a Sit 'n' Spin for the water. And for once, before rolling my eyes at her lack of enthusiasm for anything she can't wear, drink from a stemmed glass, or...

Grilling is about to get personal...ized. The Disc-It is a steel grill with a wok-like top and hundreds of options for artistic customization. Buyers can choose from Disc-It's archive of designs or create their own to...

Mmmm, I can't think of anything sexier than a lady in a bikini all tan and oiled up and floating on a giant slice of sausage and pepperoni. Don't worry, ma'am, that pizza is made of polyethylene. Its calories won't impregnate...

Supermarinovation asks, "Have you ever been snorkelling and seen something incredible below you, but haven't been able to get to it before your breath runs out?" To which I say, "Sure." And follow up with, "And have you...

Luminoodle is a light rope. And a lantern. And maybe something you'll soon see the hula hooping hippies and rave girls incorporate into their acts at shows. This 5' strand of USB-powered LEDs shines 10 to 20 times brighter...

I feel like the Jammock came to be one night after a few hours of fishing and a few dozen beers. Too drunk to drive back to the city, a couple of friends starting digging around their truck bed for sleeping bags and second...

In his 20s, Jason Brous found that he really liked 3 things: Biomech art; knifemaking; and sex. (Note: #3 is just speculation on my part, but with Brous being a dude and all, I'm 99% sure I'm correct.) And the Brous Blades...

The Fly. Craft. Stealth. A name suitable for a helicar. A personal spaceship. An...inflatable fishing raft. Flycraft's Stealth is an easy-to-transport, easy-to maneuver solo or dos-man fishing boat. Despite its collapsible...

I've learned to tie knots hundreds of times. Usually it's the same knot, the one they use to tie fenders on boats, which my friend Anthony shows me every time I go on his, and which I use once and then immediately forget...

MPOWERD doesn't just want to sell you an inflatable lantern, they want to light up the world. The company's award-winning Luci is the result of their attempts to bring simple, clean energy to people everywhere. And not...

Cars, bikes, and even PC cases, sure. We've seen a ton. But good on Texas Tool Crafters for jumping on pop culture's current obsession with multi-tools and launching a whole new industry of mods: Leathermans. Want a Skeletool...

OK, all you Camping Doughnut enthusiasts (and whiners and foot stampers lamenting that it's still only a concept), here's an almost-as-cool and exponentially-more-real alternative for you: POD Tents. If you've got the...