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« on: January 10, 2009, 12:32:17 AM »

Since I am a nerd, I am on thinkgeek.com a decent amount.

They have interesting camping/outdoors products.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/camping-outdoors/

In all fairness, some of them are silly, but I like the compact-ness of a lot of their products, like their compact grill and mini-survival kits.

Do you think any of this would actually be useful?
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2009, 01:44:31 AM »

 I clicked the link and the first thing I saw was a titanium spork Shocked, that is so PLAN9 I'm gonna order 12 Cheesy
On a more serious note the Swedish fire steel is a good product, but a little expensive there. You can pick up the Military type magnesium firestarters normally for under 10 bucks, and we used to get hot hot sparks (the same thing listed there, only with a BSA logo in the handle) in Boy Scouts for about 3 bucks. A good firestarter to use for these is dryer lint in a waterproof container. Dryer lint of course is free and it catches fire very easily if you fuzz it out.
 The emergency kit in a can looks useful, but I prefer to put my own together in Mil-surp pouches or altoids tins. You can build the same kit cheaper. Look at what's inside and build one just like it. Pick a day if you can to go hiking or camping and see what you used and what you wish you had taken and build from there. Another hint, although most everyone favors matches, I prefer a cheap cigarette lighter, they're tougher and you can light more fires. The small Bics run .79 cents most places and even when the fluid runs out you've still got a striker to use with dryer lint.
 The Travel toiletries look interesting and worthwhile, but I've never used that particular product.
 The compact grill looks awesome, but I'm a bit of a sucker for "cool" stuff like that anyway.
 The survival kit in a water bottle is a good idea, but I would just use a large sports bottle and make my own. Luckily that site has large detailed pictures so it would be easy to see the exact contents to duplicate kits like that.
 Without reviewing the whole page I'll just say some of looks useless or overpriced. If you have any specific products or uses you have Questions about, post it and I'll try my best to help you.
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2009, 06:26:19 AM »

Seriously? I've been looking for a titanium spork for years! I even made one out of damascus once...
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2009, 09:09:20 AM »

I recently went to a flea market and got a few items... (if you look at my other posts you'll see the one about my maglite)... but i saw a few cool items as well... i saw a set of shurikens and a holder that goes on your wrist... (I couldn't buy it though... because i spent most of the money i had on some stuff)...
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2009, 02:46:11 PM »

Unless your very skilled, have fun killing with those shurikan (even though you didn't buy em) Anyway, a good piece of random equiptment I found, was this old boy scout knife my Grandpa had. It has a titanium fork, spoon, firewood saw, knife, can opener, screw driver, and other goodies and it fits right there on your belt! Its great for camping and wilderness survival so i guess it would work awesomely for zombie survival
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