Published August 24, 2010
Firestarter
Your New Camping Lighter

Fall draws near. And with it, weekends spent getting back to your primal roots.
No, we’re not talking about doing shots in Faneuil Hall.
We’re talking about camping. And we’re fairly certain we’ve found something new for your
backpack…
Introducing the
Looftlighter, a mutant firestarter that’s part hair dryer, part blowtorch, and
all badass gadgetry, now ready for your next campground-related inferno (or romantic log-cabin
inferno).
Obviously, starting a fire isn’t exactly a difficult task given your expert survival skills forged over
many hours of
Man vs. Wild (and that one part in
Cast Away).
But sometimes there’s rain—or you just want to show everyone who’s Prometheus—and for those times,
you’ll want to reach for a certain macho blaze-sabre with the ability to pump out air at 1,000 degrees
Fahrenheit (bow down, Bradbury).
To start, you’ll want to point the Looftlighter at some dry kindling for about 15 seconds, watch the
embers ignite and slowly pull it back as the flames go from birthday candle-level to the third act of
Backdraft.
But come prepared: you’ll need about 110 volts of electrical power to operate this firestick, so be sure
to bring a generator.
A couple extinguishers wouldn’t hurt either.
VITALS
Looftlighter
official website