Best Outdoor Tech for 2024

While the summer heat may be borderline unbearable, there are plenty of products that can not only make your backyard tolerable, but enjoyable during the blazing summer months. In preparation for all the festivities, we’ve tested grills, coolers, outdoor projectors and audio equipment, as well as kept tabs on various outdoor lighting and other great gadgets for your outdoor space. These are some of the best outdoor tech devices for 2024.

You can (and should) go down the rabbit hole on other outdoor tech, particularly grilling accessories and outdoor security cameras. Still, this list is all about entertaining in an outdoor space. If you spend your warmer days — or cooler ones if you have a good fire pit — with your friends and family, have a large enough backyard space and want to make the most of it, then any or all of these great tech choices are for you.

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Pizza ovens are an outdoor cooking sensation. Smaller than your average grill, this propane-powered pizza preparer is simple to use and can evenly cook pizza, and other dough-based deliciousness at a rapid pace.

The hot stone in the center of the oven is heavy and needs a good amount of preheating before you put your pizza on, but once it’s ready, a homemade pie takes about 6 minutes to cook to perfection. The stone rotates so there’s no need to take the food out to move it or worry that it will be undercooked on one side.

The liftable lid is the other feature that really sets the Halo Versa apart from most pizza ovens. Once the food is cooked you tilt the lid up, giving you far more access and making it easy to get the food out without dropping it (something I’ve occasionally done on a normal oven).

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