Technology

SPOT LLC has announced an upgrade to its popular satellite messenger device. The new version is touted to have usability upgrades and a new smaller…

The Garmin 405 is well suited for all runners, even gear-phobics and running purists. A new Gear Junkie writer, Mackenzie Lobby, offers her field-tested review.

Pack a tiny digital-video camera in a watertight polycarbonate case, add mounts for helmets, bike handlebars, or a Velcro bracelet for your wrist, and you…

The Gear Junkie is now micro-blogging daily on Twitter about all things gear and outdoors, in 140 characters or less. . .

Seattle Sports On the Go Audio is a self-powered iPod player that lets you bring tunes along on wilderness trips. . .

In the world of athlete-driven, portable video cameras — a.k.a. “helmet cams” — the VholdR and the V.I.O. POV.1 are at different ends of the…

Boa Technology’s namesake twist-to-tighten knob “renders shoelaces obsolete,” according to the company. This year Boa is branching out, from tents to hydration packs. . .

Navionics, a Wareham, Mass.-based electronic cartography and navigation company, launched an iPhone app that turns your phone into a charting tool. The Navionics Mobile lets…

Developed for nighttime skiing, running, climbing and other activities, the Mila produces a wide-angle bubble of light that stretches hundreds of feet into dark night.…

The Olympus Stylus 1050 SW is a rough-and-tumble ruggedized camera, taking bumps and drops from shoulder-height onto solid stone. I know this to be true,…

My story this week on ForbesTraveler — “High-Tech Travel Gear” — covers a subgenre of gear that’s emerged from the outdoors, technology and travel-goods industries…

This short article features five over-the-top athletics products that’ll purportedly be employed by Olympians next week in Beijing. My favorite is the Nike track shoe…

Coghlan’s LED Micro Lantern looks like a trinket or a keychain toy. But this tiny light, bolstered by a 5mm LED, shines enough ambient illumination…

It’s a cord lock. It’s a light. It’s the Cord Lock Light, a regular spring-loaded cincher as found on backpacks and sleeping bags, just with…

Need to protect those secret GPS coordinates? This USB flash drive saves data in a CNC-milled, anodized aircraft-grade aluminum case that’s waterproof to 600 feet…

I blogged on Adventure Lights Inc. of Beaconsfield, Quebec, earlier this year. Now, after a couple months of playing with the company’s line of esoteric…

The much-talked-about SPOT satellite messenger is a first for outdoors users: The GPS-based locator beacon blips text-message data and lat/long coordinates to emergency services, friends…

The stratospherically priced RS800G3, a $499.95 sports watch system from Polar USA, is a product designed for a growing demographic of obsessive exercisers and fitness-gadget…