It's tailgate season! That time of year when people gather in parking lots, set up grills and tables of food outside stadiums to celebrate the upcoming game for which they've gathered to cheer on their team. It's a time to have a lot of fun with friends and family.
But until cooler temperatures start to prevail, there are going to be some very unwelcome guests to the tailgate event. The pesky kind that are attracted to the food you've put out. Flies.
Nobody likes flies landing on their food, especially if they've traveled over to it from a nearby dumpster that's contaminated with who knows what that is now in contact with the food you're going to eat. The longer they're in contact with the food, the worse it gets.
The common solution to the problem is to cover the food to keep the unwelcome guests off of it. But that's an inconvenience for the intended guests who will be serving themselves, for whom the covers not just a barrier but also a hassle to handle. There has to be a better solution.
There might be. Core77 recently featured a table fan that's especially designed to keep flies away from food that's been put out in the open. The trick, as you'll see in the creators' short video demonstrating the product, is to use flimsy fan blades that stop spinning whenever the intended guests reach in to access the food before resuming.
In addition to Shoo Away's products, there are a number of similar battery-powered fans available in the market. And while colder temperatures may soon work their magic in reducing the population of flies at tailgate parties, these could easily find additional use at next year's summer picnics.
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