Bluetooth BBQ Thermometer

Let’s file this with the short list of Bluetooth devices we’d actually use. The Bluetooth BBQ Thermometer ($80) is exactly what it sounds like: a thermometer that you tether to your smartphone (all iDevices and most Android). The thermometer works as a stand-alone thermometer and has two prongs for those … Read More

Earl, the Wilderness Tablet

Tablets are great, excepting two problems: they’re fragile, and they’re a bit less functional once they’re outside the range of a cell tower. Earl ($250) aims to solve both those problems. It’s a tablet built specifically for wilderness pursuits, be it canoeing, hiking, hunting, boating—anywhere normally hostile to regular tablets. … Read More

Bullshit Stamp

Sometimes, you’ve just got to tell it like it is, and sometimes you’ve got to tell it via stamp. Hence, the Bullshit Stamp ($17), from  Future Primitive. Granted, we don’t often have to communicate using paper, but it’d be pretty sweet to receive a badly mangled phone bill from one … Read More

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