Every once and a while a blind hog finds an acorn, so they
say…
Tortoise Gear has one product and frankly while it’s useful,
but not a world beater. But I think they just found an acorn.
Currently they make several size collapsible water
containers from a clear polymer. It
appears the backside is reflective which improves the performance. It’s a survival tool. Fill the container with clear water from a
lake or stream and exposed it to lots of sunlight. Between the UV, visible and IR components of
sunlight, 6 hours of exposure on a 50% cloudy day is enough to pasteurize the
water and make it safe to drink. (That’s
their claim.)
I heard about this several years ago, people in the Mideast
and parts of Africa were using coke bottles in a similar way: Fill ‘em with water and leave ‘em lay on the
roof for 2 days and you get biologically safe water to drink.
Cool.
The acorn Tortoise Gear found is the realization that just
about every Swiss Army knife has room from a fire starting ferro stick. Just decide if you need the tweezers or the
toothpick more. The replacement part
slips into the vacated compartment. Of
course the knife has plenty of edges to scrape the stick to generate sparks.
They’re in fund raising and have met their goal. Hell, I even threw a little money at
them. I’s rather have a fire steel than
a toothpick.
If I have a blade I can
made a toothpick.
