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The Best Tech to Optimize Your Outdoors Experience

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Ahh the great outdoors. Mother nature. The Breath of the Wild. Can’t beat it. Just kidding: This world is a nightmare full of mean bugs, poisonous snakes, and weather conditions that can legit kill you. That just shouldn’t be allowed.

Whether you long for a rugged, no-holds-barred camping trip, or just think you should maybe spend a liiiiittle bit more time getting some fresh air in a park or whatever, it can seem all that more inconvenient to take in nature’s great sights and sounds by virtue of the fact that none of your stuff is there. No TV, no fridge, and you can realistically only carry, like, two books maximum at a time. It’s awful. But there are some cool products and gadgets out there designed to improve your outdoor experience.

We found eight of the coolest high-tech gadgets and accessories that fully enhance the terror that is leaving your home. From a perfectly portable grill, to a bag that holds your phone (trust me, it’s cooler than it sounds) these are the best high-tech solutions for surviving, or simply enjoying, the great outdoors.

Rechargeable Flameless Plasma Beam Lighters, 2-Pack

No butane for these bad boys. You don’t have to refill these ingenious lighters, just recharge them. They use a plasma beam instead of a flame so the wind can’t blow it out even in the harshest conditions.

Rechargeable Flameless Plasma Beam Lighters, 2-Pack

Simple Modern Vaccuum Insulated Bottle

Keep hot drinks hot for twelve hours, and cold drinks cold for twenty-four. A lifesaver whether you’re on a hike or it’s just too damn hot outside.

Simple Modern Vaccuum Insulated Bottle

Ruggedized Waterproof Portable Charger

This doesn’t just charge your phone, but can withstand a hell of abuse, too. You’ll tire out in the rain before this thing does.

Ruggedized Waterproof Portable Charger

Water Resistant Bluetooth Speaker With 10-Hour Battery Life

Bring the party — or stimulating and educational audiobook — anywhere with this rugged speaker that can handle rain, coffee spills, and hundreds of drops.

Water Resistant Bluetooth Speaker With 10-Hour Battery Life

Outlite Ultra Bright LED Flashlight

Put your phone’s awful washed-out camera light back in your pocket, and get a proper flashlight for when you really want to find your way in the dark, or find that one sock under the bed that you’ve been missing for seven months.

Outlite Ultra Bright LED Flashlight

SENSO Waterproof Bluetooth Headphones

It’s not a myth: Headphones really do crap out on you if they get too wet. Not these ones.

SENSO Waterproof Bluetooth Headphones

Coleman Camp Propane Grill/Stove

Look at this tiny, moveable grill! Not only cure, but perfect for cooking up some hot dogs in even the tiniest backyard or patio, and even the biggest forest.

Coleman Camp Propane Grill/Stove

Universal Waterproof Cellphone Pouch

protect your phone and other sensitive items (wallet, ID, you get it) with this clever little pouch, that even includes a watertight window you can still use your phone through!

Universal Waterproof Cellphone Pouch

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