The wild camping kit you didn’t know you needed

Ever do the star-imprint on a mozzie bite back in the day to try stop the itch? What about putting an ice pack over a bunch of them? Run under cold water, make a paste with baking soda, take antihistamines. These are all ways people try to deal with that itch but now, you can use heat it’s mozzie dongle.

About half the size of a USB memory stick, you can keep this dongle on your keys and if you get bitten, just stick one end into the charging point of your phone and then apply the other side to the bite. A completely chemical-free and natural solution, heat it® uses localised low-level heat for a treatment that actually works, heating the affected area to around 51ºC.

From a mozzie bites, to midge (actually the worst, most enduring itch ever), bee and wasp stings, this little beauty of an invention is exactly what you need to get rid of a sting or itch.

FROM AU$59.95

In our search for a great powerbank, one stood out from the crowd, because it’s more than you’re average powerbank.

Belkin have been leaders in the tech accessory market segment for over 40 years. You’d be hard-pressed to find a modern home without at least one Belkin product, and we think the BoostCharge Hybrid Wall Charger + Power Bank should be the latest addition. This particular accessory is pure genius, and you can guess from the name that is it a wall-charger, but you can take this one with you on the go as it doubles as a power bank, and a bloody good one at that. Why take your wall charger AND power bank with you to work or on a trip when you can just take this?

It comes with a 1 meter USB-C to USB-C cable, plus the device itself has a single USB-C port and a single USB-A port allowing you to charge two devices at once. Brilliant! Belkin have gone another step further and included plugs for US/EU/UK and Australia – so you don’t even need to worry about adapters. This product solves many problems plus reduces weight and space when travelling.

Thanks to USB PD 3.0 PPS (Power Delivery and Programmable Power Supply technology, it safely allows for fast-charging and is made from 72% post-consumer recycled plastic. It also comes in plastic-free packaging. Belkin often go above and beyond but they’ve really outdone themselves here.

FROM AU$119.95

The futuristic-sounding GoSun Fusion Solar Oven is, indeed, a futuristic oven designed to take travelling.
Cook, fry, steam, bake, or boil up to 290 ºC on the road, in a boat, on the beach – anywhere. It works like this: two parabolic reflectors concentrate the sunlight into the cooking chamber, trapping the energy inside for, well, cooking.

Spending almost 700 bucks on an oven might seem like a lot but imagine how much money you could save by being able to cook wherever you go. Whip up a roast at Bondi, bake some cookies in the Amazon – you do you. And eat well.

FROM AU$699

I watched MTV Cribs as a kid and remember Lil Wayne having a hot tub smack-bang in the middle of his living room. His living room!? How outrageous. A hot tub doesn’t belong there.

Fast forward to 2023 and we can all be Lil Wayne, thanks to Salty Barrel Hot Tubs. These wood-fired hot tubs can be picked up and placed anywhere—in your living room, out camping, top of Everest —you name it.

The tubs are eco-friendly given they don’t require electricity. A spiralled-coil holds a woodfire, which we guess doubles as a neo-modern fire pit. The coil is connected via two tubes to the tub, which sucks cold water from the bottom of the tub into the bottom inlet of the coil which starts a steady flow of heated water. All without a pump. Eat ya heart out, Wayne.

FROM AU$1,350

The humble watch is making a comeback.

No one wants to spend any more time than they need to on their phone, especially on TikTok, where time is sucked viciously from our lives and funnelled into a strange portal of cat videos and weird dances, never to be seen again.

Timex watches don’t do that, they just tell you the time. The Expedition North Free Dive is solar-powered, has a strap made of #tide ocean material® and still works 50 metres underwater. Your iPhone can’t do that.

It looks cool, it’s perfect for hiking, it’s perfect when you’re in the water. It’s perfect for the adventurer. Watches > phones.

AU$249.95

How many times have you been at the beach or in the desert or exploring the Arctic and thought “gee, wish I had a pizza oven right about now?”.

I know! Happens all the time, right? Thankfully, wishing-on-a-pizza is now a thing of the past with the Gozney Roccbox—a portable pizza oven guaranteed to make you feel like you’re always in Naples.

The oven itself might look like a letterbox, but we can assure you it CAN cook a pizza. In fact, It gets up to 500 degrees celsius, which (by our calculations) = hot yummy pizza fast.

You can even cook it a la woodfire, if you add on the Roccbox Wood Burner 2.0. Mamma mia!

FROM AU$799

When you hear the word flask, you might think of the cumbersome clunkers popularised by club-going 18-year-olds and sneaky festival-goers.

Now you can add another category: sleek, cool camping bad bois like the VSSL (pronounced vessel) flask, which is both a vibe and extremely practical. Built with military-grade aluminum and food-grade stainless steel, the flask is more or less indestructible, and also comes with an in-built LED flashlight, an oil-filled precision compass AND a couple of shot glasses.

Flasks don’t come much better than this, people.

FROM AU$115

Biolite are no strangers to wacky inventions but gee whizz they sure darn gone outdone themselves. This time, it’s the old ‘bush T.V’.

The Biolite Firepit+ (what a name) is a portable fire pit that looks like a cross between a letterbox and a Boston Terrier, which comes with its own patented air flow system that prevents it from creating smoke. NO SMOKE AT ALL.

While it doesn’t look like your regular fire pit, it does use wood or fuel like your regular fire pit. It also still gets hot, like a regular fire pit, meaning you’re able to marshmallow roast and shit-talk without resorting to the time-honoured technique of pointing into the fire hoping it’ll direct the smoke away from you.

Your fan speed also determines how high the flames go and how quickly you burn through your wood. Pretty cool/hot.

FROM AU$446

There’s nothing worse than being stuck somewhere, hungry, unable to cook a barbeque.

At the beach? All I see is a potential barbeque location. Lost in the middle of the desert? Time for a barbeque. Is your hardware store no longer serving those legendary car park snags due to COVID? Say no more – the Nomad Grills Portable BBQ is here.

It’s a premium charcoal barbecue grill & smoker that looks like a suitcase. This gives it unparalleled portability, so you’ll be ready for all those…

FROM AU$800