GPS is great, but when you’re on a road you typically still have an idea of your location. For trails and other outdoors activities, if the GPS stops marking when you step off the trail, it’s useless. Garmin just released its fēnix Outdoor Watch, which still tracks and directs adventurers, even when they’re off the beaten path. Continue reading Garmin’s fēnix Outdoor Watch Goes Off Trail
Category: Outdoors
Packing It In
If you need to bring everything with you, and we mean just about everything, then the Pelican U100 Urban Elite Laptop Backpack might be the way to go. This top-end pack includes a solid poly case that can be submerged for up to 30 minutes.
Obviously this one is ideal for the trail, but could work for urban commuters who want a bit of extra production or travelers who want to carry a lot of stuff. It will fit up to a 17-inch laptop, and offer an additional 16 liters of capacity for other gear. The airtight case even includes a pressure-release valve so it can be opened on a plane. Continue reading Packing It In
Freeheel for Almost Barefoot Running
The barefoot running craze continues – and as some of our guest contributors have noted it is so easy as caveman did it. But for those just getting started it can be a little hard on the toes. Now the German company Starringer has a solution to ease into going barefoot. Continue reading Freeheel for Almost Barefoot Running
Klipsch Introduces All-Weather Headphones
Klipsch Audio makes some great speaker system for home theater and even the computer desktop. The stylish speakers look as good as they sound and are the sort of thing that you’d want to treat with serious respect.
However, sound is what really matters and now audiophiles can take that quality with them and not worry about the elements. Klipsch has announced its new Image S4i Rugged Headphones that can stand up to Mother Nature’s bad side. Designed for music and more these can be used to enjoy and experience iPhone music and phone calls, while oversized buttons mean you can control the sound even with bulky gloves. The in-ear headphones, which are available in yellow, orange, blue and red, feature oval ear tips that are designed to be comfortable for hours of wear. Continue reading Klipsch Introduces All-Weather Headphones
Magellan eXplorist Helps Find The Fish
We reported about the Magellan Fishing Hot Spots Pro, a comprehensive suite of approximately 4,000 U.S. lakes with detailed shorelines and depth contours. Now Magellan have announced its Angler Editions for Total Fishing Solution last month, including the new Magellan eXplorist 510 Pro Angler Edition.
It will feature inland coastal waters maps and data, and is designed with a rugged, waterproof form factor that is ready to go fishing. Costal data includes information on 5-foot contours, tides, currents, wrecks, port plans, marsh areas, and marine services.
All Fishing Hot Spots content are pre-loaded on a single MicroSD card that is included with the eXplorist Pro Angler Edition.
You can cast off in August!
Dry Bag that Lights the Night
Dual purpose devices are becoming more and more common. We’ve seen bike headlights that can also be used as lanterns, but now Mammut is offering the T-Trail + Ambient Light Dry Bag a dry bag that can help keep gear protected from the elements, or be used to carry up to three liters of water. At night – and once the water is emptied out of course – it can be used with the included T-Trail headlamp (which can also be worn on the head or a helmet) to provide a lantern in the tent or campsite.
The headlamps, which are one of the company’s staple products, feature “Lucido Light Technology” and LED lighting to ensure these can light up the night.
The T-Trail lamp offers a maximum range of 30 feet, has an 80 hour battery life and runs on three AAA batteries. It features 4x definition, and offers three floodlight settings, along with a 45 degree light angle.
KEEN Sandals Ready for Hiking
Sandals don’t likely come to mind as the most ideal footwear for hiking, but we should consider for centuries in hot regions sandals were actually the de facto shoes. The Romans wore sandals and built an empire with its soldiers in this footwear and that was before building those roads. Continue reading KEEN Sandals Ready for Hiking
Yakima Trailer Brings the Gear
So let’s say you are looking to head out this summer and want to do some biking, but also some kayaking and you need to bring all the gear involved? Well, most cars can only carry so much stuff. A trailer can come in real handy if you have a lot of gear.
The Yakima Gear Trailer is one that offers capacity for bikes, boats and other gear. From the look of it however you’d question if it can carry anything as it is really just two wheels on an aluminum chassis. However, this system is actually ideal because it is customizable and adaptable. It offers rack-mounting bars so it can hold four bikes and a large gear box in the middle – or a bike, a gear box and a kayak. In other words it isn’t a system you need to adapt to as it is customizable to your needs. Continue reading Yakima Trailer Brings the Gear
Just One Board Gets Kicks on Decks
While many communities look to ban skateboarding, in New Orleans several groups came together to get kids on board – on refurbished and repaired skateboards. The International Association of Skateboard Companies’ (IASC) and Go Skateboarding Foundation’s newly launched initiative, Just One Board, spent the 2012 edition of Go Skateboarding Day getting 700 kids set to take over New Orleans on their skateboards.
[Via Transworld Business: ‘Just One Board’ A Huge Hit on Go Skateboarding Day]
Musical Snowboard
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OK, we missed this one when the guys at Every Third Thursday – who always create something truly unique – first offered up an Xylophone Snowboard (Video above), but we felt it interesting enough to post about it now. We’re not sure how it will ride on the snow, but it can certainly carry a tune!
Solarmonkey on the Back
Having a monkey on the back is usually equated to a serious problem that won’t go away. But having a Solarmonkey on the back could actually solve a problem of juicing up digital equipment while on the go – thus solving a rather annoying (if not exactly serious) problem.
Solarmonkey Adventurer is actually the latest in Powertraveller’s line of portable solar chargers, and the first to include an internal storage battery, which means that not only can a device be powered up while the sun is shining but energy can be saved for later juicing as well. In fact the charger can send power to both an internal battery and an external 5 v USB device so it can be used to charge now and charge later. Continue reading Solarmonkey on the Back
Rokform Offers Rock Steady Mount for Golfers
There are iPhone cases that can get wet and go deep underwater, and there are iPhone cases that can be used to mount the handset to handlebars of a bike. But now Rokform has a case that can help with your golf form.
The Golf Shooter iPhone case, which is designed for the iPhone 4/4S, can help user’s record golf swings anywhere on the course. This eliminates the need to have a second person hold the phone. Designed through collaboration with the PGA Tour, this case features an aluminum mount, a golf shooter shaft and soft cover.
Sony Gives Preview of New Wearable HD Camcorder
While the wearable HD video camera market already has many strong contenders Sony looks to enter the area with a camcorder that will reportedly feature Sony’s SteadyShot image stabilization technology.
This could make those user created action videos on YouTube a little easier to watch. The new “action camera” will also sport an Exmore R CMOS image sensor and ultra-wide angle Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, which could further help create very good look video. Continue reading Sony Gives Preview of New Wearable HD Camcorder