Need to find the best place to skate or snowboard? The Spot Digger app will help you out. This location based social mobile app and Internet service lets users search, find, share and rate the best places to skateboard or snowboard. Favorites can be added to the map, and users can even create content for the site and app by adding their own spots.
The concept for this app came about when the founders became frustrated when trying to find places to hit the decks in distant lands. The solution was to create a social network that could be accessed through an app. Video after the jump
There is a certain irony in that many bicycle lights are located far higher than those on an automobile, which means that it isn’t able to illuminate the road as well. But Kent Frankovich and Adam Pettler had a revolutionary idea: mount the bike light on the wheel, which in turn put it closer to the ground.
Having an edge in golf is what the game is all about, but soon you might be able to wear that edge, or at least wear the new Sunice Edge collection of golf apparel, which promises a trimmer fit, sleek style and one packed with cool details.
Novara, REI’s bike line, is marking its 30th anniversary with a new line of bikes and gear that includes folding bikes for transportation, road bikes, mountain bikes and reflective clothing. Retailer REI will start to get the 2013 line of bikes, and continue getting new items through spring. 
Utah-based Klymit is full of air, not necessarily hot air but air none the less. The company introduced an inflatable sleeping pad for campers a couple of years ago, and now the company is looking to bring out an inflatable windbreaker. This jacket has a valve in the hand pocket, which can be used to pump up the jacket’s air chambers, which makes it go tight against the body to add insulation. 
For a day’s hike in the woods there is still much to bring – but hardly the right bag for the job. Many large packs are overkill, and the smaller packs still mean jamming things in the pockets or worse having the hands filled!
They say you can’t go home again, and while we don’t know what they mean or who even “they” might be, we do know that you can get Back-To-Berkeley and even do so down low, or rather Back-To-Berkley Low Down via a trip to North Face.
The Dutch love their bicycles, and they don’t stop riding for much. Because many residents don’t own cars they depend on the bikes to get them where they need to go all year round. That means riding in the rain, which we’ve seen firsthand and it didn’t look like fun. But it also means they need to ride in the winter, and that can be dangerous.
The old school flashlight needed a massive battery – or batteries – and it was about as heavy as a brick. But fortunately LED technology has changed all that, and today flashlights such as the new Fenix LD41 can light the way through the darkest of nights.
At the SIA Snowsports Show in January we got to see an early model of the 
Over the past few years we’ve seen a few advancements in down that makes it warmer, better at staying dry and just more effective as a cold weather layer. Patagonia is now introducing Encapsil, a water-repellent down technology. 
A good knife is one tool you don’t want to be without when camping, hiking or hunting. The DPx Gear HEST 2.0 Survival Knife isn’t a good knife, it is probably the one knife you’d serious want when things get serious. It features a 3.15-inch Sleipnersteel blade with a resilient cutting edge, a strong re-angled pry notch, wire strippers and hex driver. It available either with a PVD coating for the stealthy look, or as a naked stone-washed blade and wood handle for that woodsman look. Either configuration offers a hollow handle for storing extra survival materials.