What do you do with a broken skateboard? A bonfire might be one option, but Virginia skate shop Scene 3 is taking old skateboard decks and transforming these into colorful bottle openers. The broken boards are cut, glued and pressed so it is more than just a trashed piece of wood – and it allows that favorite deck to live on, and even open the bottle to toast its demise.
[Via HiConsumption: Recycled Skateboard Bottle Openers by Scene3]
OK, this isn’t the most fitness friendly device we’ve chronicled but as one of the last items we’ll call out for 2012 we felt it was worth noting. The Bottle Grenade is as the makers proclaim, “the last opener you will ever need.” Unlike many devices and gizmos that add a bottle opener, this one begins as a bottle opener and offers other functionality.
In addition to the bottle twist opener and bottle cap opener the Bottle Grenade includes a keychain that has a ¼-inch hex, 7/16-inch hex, and can even be used as a bit holder. It can hang on a purse or belt loop as well. So while it isn’t the last multi-tool you’ll want to have, it might be the first and last bottle opener you’ll want to take on the go. The Bottle Grenade’s designer is now looking to raise funds via a Kickstarter project. Video after the jump
You and your riding buddies have just finished an all day mountain bike adventure and you are back at the car digging into the cooler to reward yourselves with a tasty beverage. Where’s the bottle opener?!?! There are none on your key chains and no one in the parking lot has one. Sure, you are mountain bikers and nothing is going to keep you from a cold bottle of suds, but slamming the bottle on the side of the guard rail can often lead to a sudsy mess and half of your hard earned beer on the ground. StemCAPtain has come to the rescue with their headset top cap that doubles as a bottle opener.
This past VeloSwap in Denver, we had a chance to chat with Mike Hogan, one of the StemCAPtain owners, who handed us a bottle opener to try. Bikes and beer goes hand and hand, so on the bike this opener went. The installation was just as easy as the StemCAPtain Clock and StepCAPtain Thermometer that we tested earlier this year and the entire install took less than two minutes to put on the bike. Continue reading Hands On: StemCAPtain Bottle Opener