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Trekmates Flameless Cook Lets You Cook Safely Inside Tents

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Bringing a small camping stove makes hot, cooked meals easy enough in the outdoors. If you want the most convenient cooking device for camping, though, we doubt there’s anything better than the Trekmates Flameless Cook System. That’s right — cooking without flames. And, no, it doesn’t involve an electric cooker like you have at home (because, you know, there’s no wall outlet in the wild). Instead, it uses chemical heating packets that lets you cook food without having to start [...]

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City Boy Portable Picnic Grill Might Actually Fit In Your Backpack

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Looking for the smallest, most portable grill you can bring to an afternoon at the beach? Look no further than the City Boy Picnic Grill, a rectangular outdoor cooker than looks more like a lunch box than a tool to help you char that barbecue. Made by Selki-Asema and designed by Klaus Aalto, it’s literally a compact box with a top handle and a knob in front. It looks particularly sleek for a grill, which will probably make people mistake it [...]

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Gnarboards Trail Rider 4 Wheel Drive Electric Skateboard

SPORTS, TO DO

Motorized skateboards are nothing new. The Trail Rider though, isn’t your typical electric skater, packing some serious talents that let you ride beyond paved city streets. Made by Gnarboards, this isn’t a conventional skateboard. As such, it’s not designed for conventional things like grinding around skate parks and freestyling on street corners. Instead, the motorized ride is designed for speeding through open roads and thrashing over off-road terrain. The Gnarboards Trail Rider is a 64-pound 4WD electric skateboard that measures [...]

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Nike Plus Kinect Training

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You already use your Nike+ gear to monitor your runs and gym workouts. Might as well rely on Nike+ for your home exercise as well. And you can do that with the Nike+ Kinect Training. A new training program/exercise game for the Xbox 360, it’s like Wii Fit sans the stack of plastic gaming accessories. Since it’s for the Kinect, all you need is the console, the motion camera and the game — none of those boxes of mess that [...]

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How To Build Your Own Lawn Chair Hovercraft

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You want a personal hovercraft. But even the cheapest hovercrafts are well beyond what your 9-to-5 grind’s going to let you afford. While it’s far from the most stylish solution, this Lawn Chair Hovercraft would make a fine set to get you started. Made by Adam Savage at Wired’s Geek Dad blog, it’s a hovering platform with a plastic lawn chair attached on top. That means, you can plop down on your bottom comfortably, all while floating around the yard [...]

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gTar Could Change The Way We Learn Guitar

GADGETS, TO DO

My little cousin is trying to learn guitar. And boy is he bad at it. So I gave him my copy of Ableton and he now makes more tolerable music than he ever did with a six string. But if you insist on learning those outmoded instruments instead of just pressing buttons and mixing samples like Skrillex, the gTar could be prove an excellent tool for accelerating the learning process. Created by Incident, it’s a guitar with an iPhone dock. [...]

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Someone Wants To Build A Rooftop Velodrome And We Love It

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I have a bunch of friends who literally go over the top spending on accessories and parts for their bicycles. When people are that dedicated about their pedal-powered rides, they deserve an equally dedicated bike club. This proposed Bicycle Club with Rooftop Velodrome accomplishes that exorbitant standard. Designed by NL Architects for a resort under development out in Southern China, the proposed installation brings a different take on the banked oval bike tack. Instead of setting one up under the [...]

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Bellyak Is Part Bodyboard Part Kayak

SPORTS, TO DO

Many kayaks are built for portable transport. Some for leisurely sightseeing. Others are made for high-level performance. The Bellyak, on the other hand, creates an entirely new category — a kayak designed for riding on your stomach. It’s not exactly a kayak. Instead, they’re calling it a “bodyboat,” since you’re supposed to ride it with your body lying horizontally with the head out front. So it’s kind of like a surfboard when you’re paddling to catch a wave, except more [...]

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Zombie Mall Experience: Fight Zombies Close-Quarters IRL

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Practice makes perfect. That’s why most of us will end up fodder when the zombie invasion comes — none of us have had any practice surviving an onslaught of mindless brain-eaters. The Zombie Mall Experience can help change all that. Instead of settling for video game zombie encounters, the activity allows you to experience everything in the real world. No controllers, no TV screens and no video game physics — everything works the same way they would when the actual [...]

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Volet Vegetal Lets You Grow A Vegetable Garden Right Out Of A Window

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You live in a cramped studio high up in a building in a crappy part of the city. It ain’t much, but it’s home. Sometimes, though, you long for a home where you can set up a garden for growing your own mutant tomatoes and genetically-modified herbs. Well, now you can with the Volet Vegetal. Ever seen one of those vertical gardens that you can mount on outdoor walls? This is kind of like that. Since you don’t really have [...]

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ReaDIYmate: Papercraft Plus WiFi Makes For Interesting New Things

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WiFi is the new USB. At least, that’s how it goes when it comes to desktop accessories and toys. The ReaDIYmate embraces this new internet of things paradigm, adding WiFi connectivity to papercraft models that combine the classic with modern tech. Unlike many WiFi objects you’ll find online, this isn’t a kit that you’ll need to solder and glue up together for a weekend building project. Instead, putting the stuff together is as easy as standard papercraft, with all electronics [...]

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Teal Panels Let You Build Modular Campers And Temporary Dwellings

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A modular house that you can build and extend just like LEGOs has long been on the wish list of geeky people who want their houses to be as quirky as they are. They just might get their wish soon with these Teal Panels, which let you assemble temporary dwellings of various sizes and configurations. Granted, it’s not exactly permanent housing, but it’s close enough. Even better, you can set these up in your yard, backyard, roof, garage and neighbor’s [...]

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Machine Gun Tour At The Sebastian Hotel

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You, Me A chopper (don’t worry, it’s not this wooden helicopter). And bullets, Lots of it. That’s the promise of Sebastian Hotel’s Machine Gun Tour, a weekend getaway that involves unloading ammo from a helicopter in flight. An optional service you can avail when you visit the Colorado hotel, the tour flies you over the Rocky Mountains in a genuine military gunship. We’re not exactly sure where you’re going to be firing off the machine guns at, but we’re guessing [...]

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Badboot Is A 400-Foot Floating Pool

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Just when you thought the Hot Tub Boat was awesome, the Badboot makes it look like child’s play. I mean, a boat that doubles as a floating hot tub just pales in comparison to a ferry boat with a 400-foot long swimming pool on top of it. We’re not sure if the converted ferry boat will remain operational on its own, which should be awesome — a giant swimming pool that you can transport from port to port. Even if [...]

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Randall Jr. Lets You Add Extra Flavors To Your Beer

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Making your own beer sure is fun. Between getting the right equipment, learning all the steps and experimenting with ingredients, though, it’s a lot of work most people would rather not deal with. If you’re just hoping to add a slight off-kilter taste to your favorite off-the-shelf brand, setting up a microbrewery is overkill. The Randall Jr. Personal Beer Infuser should prove a more appropriate solution. Made by Dogfish Head, it’s a simple contraption for adding extra flavor to your [...]

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Blank Slate Hanging Board Adds Rock Climbing To Your Workout

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You’ve already changed up your home gym workouts in a big way, adding a few rope climbing exercises and sledgehammer training to your program. But you’re bored again. How about throwing in a little rock climbing to the mix? Don’t worry, we don’t mean turning your living room walls into a climbing course — just install this Blank Slate Climbing Training Board and you’ve got all the equipment you need. Designed to mount on door frames, it installs just like [...]

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CaveSim Is A Virtual Cave For Potholing In The City

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When you want to do rock climbing, you don’t usually go up to a mountain and scale dangerous cliffs for your first time. Instead, you do it in a gym where you build up strength and confidence climbing a wall. The same goes for scuba diving, where you usually work on your skills in olympic-size swimming pools rather than in the open seas. For those interested in exploring caves, though, the avenues for in-city practice aren’t quite as available. At [...]

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Insulated, Reusable Brown Paper Bag

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As iconic as they may be, brown paper bags are way passé when it comes to holding your lunch. So I’m not surprised that more and more paper bag replacements (like the Artifact Lunch Bag) are coming along. If you love the classic look of brown bags but don’t appreciate the disposability of paper, this Insulated Brown Paper Bag should be more suited to what you’re looking for. Why not just brown bag it like you’ve always done? Because paper [...]

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Hammock-Compatible Sleeping Bag Covers The Entire Hammock

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You can use a regular sleeping bag when spending the night snoozing on a hammock. We doubt it’s going to be all that comfortable, though — sleeping bags are built for lying flat on a floor, not swinging on a hanging sack. This Hammock-Compatible Sleeping Bag allows you to both stay warm and lie down at the most comfortable position you can find. Made by Grand Trunk, the bag is specially-designed to wrap around the entire hammock. That way, you’re [...]

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