Hasta La Ideas

When we hear “Kickstarter” we think of wholly original product designs like Scott Wilson’s TikTok/LunaTik or Studio Neat’s Glif. Devin Montgomery’s Backcountry Boiler is the first project we’ve seen that takes a product already on the marketplace and tries to improve it without changing the overall design.

Remember the Kelly Kettle, the water-boiling camping thermos with a hollow conical fire chamber? Montgomery’s Backcountry Boiler is essentially the same design, albeit in a shorter and slimmer form factor and with a silicon stopper rather than a cork one. Given that the Kelly Kettle is currently being produced by the fourth generation of Kellys associated with the kettle’s design, we didn’t realize this was even legal.

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