Backpacker Editor in Chief Jon Dorn provides us with a nifty tutorial that shows how to start a fire using only your cell phone, wool, steel, and tinder. Continue reading to watch.

A bit of steel wool held to a battery’s contacts will create a short and start to spark, and if you’re careful, you can direct that spark onto some pre-arranged tinder, starting a fire.

[via Gizmodo]

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