SL2 Survival Tool: Don’t be a tool at the campsite

If you fancy yourself to be the next Bear Grylls, why don’t you do it in tech style with the SL2 Survival Tool. As the name implies, this gadget is designed to help keep you alive (or at least in good spirits) when you’re off camping, hiking or fishing. It’s a super-tough, compact and lightweight tool that is an upgrade from the popular SL3.

The SL2 features a serrated locking ‘A’ grade blade in an un-blade-like chic black, and comes with a Swedish Defense Department created, firesteel, which lights fires with ease even in a hurricane. To achieve this feat of camping ingenuity, it produces a 3,000°C hot spark for a smoking good night.

Ever practical, the handle of the firesteel contains a small but powerful waterproof torch, and in the body of this piece of kit is a piercing rescue whistle, and belt clip to help you out of a sticky situation.

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TRENDnet's 300Mbps Wireless Easy-N-Upgrader won't put your router out of a job

If you've been at it long, you're probably tired of forking over $100 or so every year for the latest and greatest in wireless networking. The TEW-637AP, thankfully, takes a different approach. Instead of chucking your current router, the 300Mbps Wireless "Easy-N-Upgrader" just jacks into an extra Ethernet port on your existing router, and relies on that old box to do the "routing" part. The TRENDnet unit deals with blasting the 802.11n with MIMO, for theoretical speeds up to 300Mbps. Seems a bit silly, but the $64 pricetag certainly bests your average 802.11n router, so it might work out for you if you've got a good thing going with your existing setup, and just need a little extra push in the bandwidth department.