I've noticed how a recurring suggestion to new players is 'increase your outdoorsman'. It seems a bit off that players need to invest in that regardless of their intended build.
So, I think having a motion detector in your inventory should increase your outdoorsman by 20 points or so, but not past a certain threshold. It'll increase your outdoorsman, but not past 60%, for example.
This'll give crafter characters a leg up without forcing them to invest skill points in an area that they never intended to. So, instead of learning how to skin geckos, they use technological wizardry to solve their problems.
Obviously, the drawback is that it's temporary.