Outdoors

Dog overboard! might not be such a big deal if you've got a pup who loves to swim, but Dog back onboard? As in getting yours there when he's had his fill of the water? Now that can be a doggone mess. But, a doggone mess...

It's what's on the inside that counts, right? The Crua Culla Maxx is a temperature-regulating inner tent that keeps you warm while camping on cold nights, or cool while camping on warm ones...

The size of a water bottle, 5 seconds to set up, 300-pound weight capacity - sometimes with a camping chair, everything just Cliqs...

Now, can I hook this Hooli Pool Fountain up to my FUNBOY? No? Then, psssh, it will not put "the FUN in multi-FUNctional," as you claim, for this dude...

Not much of a green thumb? Well then, use this Seeding Square gardening template and make sure all the little plants you grow...die perfectly positioned within its square foot grid. Wamp, wamp. The Seeding Square will...

Let the good times, and the tasty dogs, roll this summer with the Jim Beam Hot Dog Roller. Made for even and efficient grilling, the stainless steel Hot Dog Roller has space for 'cueing up to 5 franks, or other tubular...

Don't count your chickens before they hatch, but do count your chickens before serving them lunch at the Chicknic Table. Wouldn't want to leave anyone without a seat on the bench, or at least a place to get their beaks...

They call Glowbus' Dewdrop Fire Pit an "eye-catcher," and I'd imagine that's especially the case if you get drunk and fall on it, what with those corten steel spikes ready to "catch" any eye that comes their way. The...

Uh, Surf Sheet Sand-Free Beach Blanket, or Surf Sheet Sand-Free Beach Playpen for Adults? Not that the 8" walls of this playpen are going to keep strapping dudes like me and my friend Cornelius in. But just the image...

While Cuisinart did a pretty good job of naming themselves a clever portmanteau word from the words "cuisine" and "art," they didn't do so great in naming their Chimenea Propane Fire Pit. First of all, to my knowledge...

The Barbecue Skillet is a skillet for the grill. A grilling skillet . A skill-grill. A grill-et! And, above all, a great solution for the pitmaster who 'cues up stir-fries, delicate stick- and crumble-prone seafood, and...

Now this is the kind of coiled, hissing, spitting cobra I like. The kind that coils attentively near my sweating brow, and hisses and spits a cool and continuous mist of water my way. Orbit's Flex Cobra Portable Mist...

Snug as a bug in a...Snugpak Stratosphere 1-person bivvy shelter. Stable, warm, mosquito-free, and ready to pack out at a moment's notice too. The Stratosphere aims to be a full-feature tent, without a tent's size, weight...

Zenbivy has always been about sleeping cozy under the stars - see the outdoor gear company's Zenbivy Bed, a freestyle sleeping bag - but with their forthcoming Zenbivy Double Beds, they're also entering the market of...

How do you think Miller Lite came up with Beercoal? That's right, after enough clumsy or drunken beer spills into the Weber produced the tastiest burgers and brats ever, a beer-infused charcoal became the natural next...

Where there's muck, there's brass. Plastic muck, and Oceanus Brass, to be specific. The Oceanus Brass Cablelaid is a cordage tool and on-demand recycling companion that breaks down plastic bottle waste into yards and...

Feast your eyes on Blenheim Forge's Limited Edition BBQ Set, and then if you're lucky, feast your belly on the fruits meats of its labor...

Trade in the ax for a Jerax. The Jerax Tools Kindling Cracker doesn't have the same heartwarming story behind it as Ayla Hutchinson's Kindling Cracker, but as a wood-splitting drill bit, rather than an entire apparatus...

Suck it, bloodsuckers! The Biogents Mosquitaire CO2 outdoor mosquito trap is a scientifically-researched, German-engineered solution to bug bites, and their ruining of your backyard BBQs and summer evenings on the patio...

Welcome to BBQ Planet. Brought to you by Bricknic, and in a very literal...no, that's the wrong word...a very tangible sense. Bricknic debuted last year with a line of very cool modular campfire and BBQ cooking bricks...

No woman, NoCry. No dude, no dad, and no mama NoCry either, if you give them a pair of these home and gardening knee pads. The maintenance, construction, and yard work companions pad and protect your ache-prone knee joints...

What is Binchotan charcoal? With a name and packaging as sick as "Jealous Devil Onyx Binchotan Charcoal," clearly it's something that's going to turn me into a grilling ninja. A kebab samurai. A BBQ shogun. A hibachi...OK...

You can't slip Zippo's FireFast Bellows into your pocket like this little blow-it fire starter, but then again, the FireFast Bellows isn't for little fires. And as its name suggests, the Zippo brand of flame stoker doesn't...

I heard we're heading into a recession. Know what that means? Yep. Time to start treasure hunting! Last weekend I went to my mama's house, intending to haul out the ol' metal detector just like I did after the Y2K dot-com...