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BioLite Invents Ultra-Efficient, Smokeless Campfire Device

One of the best parts of camping is sitting around a fire with your friends–unless you’re in that position where the wind is blowing the smoke directly in your face.

BioLite has solved this with their FirePit, an intelligently-designed sort of floating hearth that uses 51 air jets to increase burn efficiency and virtually eliminate the smoke. Here’s how it works:

In addition to the fact that you can cook on it, the icing on the cake is that you get BioLite’s signature USB charging ability, with the energy drawn directly from the fire itself.

The FirePit has caught fire on Kickstarter, garnering $2.3 million in pledges on a $100,000 goal. It’s no surprise why: The company is throwing in a $60 Solar Carry Cover, which keeps the FirePit’s battery charged in between burns, for free to all pledgers.

If you want to get in on it, you’ll have to hurry: There’s only a day left to pledge.