GoPro HD Helmet HERO
GoPro is setting the tone for wearable video cameras with the launch of its HD option featuring 1080p resolution.
CamelBak Flow Meter
Think of it like a fuel gauge for human-powered sports. The CamelBak Flow Meter could be a savior for athletes who can’t tell if their hydration bladder is running on empty.
SanDisk slotRadio player
The slotRadio player has a solid, durable case made of die-cast aluminum. A built-in clip lets you attach it to your bike jersey or trail-running shorts and go.
New SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger
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 size at 3.7 x 2.6 x 1 inches.
Garmin 405 Review
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.
GoPro Helmet HERO Wide
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 have the GoPro.
Luxury Lite UltraLite Cot
As an alternative to a sleeping pad, the Luxury Lite UltraLite Cot weighs in at less than 3 pounds and keeps a camper “floating above rocks, sticks, roots, water and snow.”
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Gear Junkie on Twitter
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
Seattle Sports On the Go Audio is a self-powered iPod player that lets you bring tunes along on wilderness trips. . .
Gear Review: VholdR and V.I.O. Helmet Cameras
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 spectrum. Sure, both cameras can be mounted nearly anywhere on an athlete in motion. They are similarly durable and made to
Boa Technology – The Boa Lacing System
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. . .
Turn your iPhone into a GPS unit
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 you view in-depth charts using your GPS position, and allows you to pan and zoom, query chart objects and more. The app also has outdoor and ski trail data so you can navigate while skiing, hiking or biking.
Gear Review — Black Diamond Orbit Lantern
Made for backcountry skiers, climbers and backpackers, the Orbit Lantern is a pocket-size, collapsible mini lantern that shines enough light to prepare dinner, organize gear, read or play checkers while storm-bound in a tent. . .
Mila PLS 100 headlamp – The Gear Junkie Scoop
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. . .
Olympus Stylus 1050 SW Review – The Gear Junkie Scoop
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, having dropped the camera a few times while testing. . .
Turin Bike Trainer
With a base price tag of $12,500, and configurations that will sell for more than $20,000, the Turin bike training system encapsulates a rider in a bubble of technology and is touted as the “ultimate in indoor training”. . .
Bamboo Tent Poles – The Gear Junkie Scoop
In a “quest for innovation and environmentally conscious design,” NEMO Equipment Inc. of Nashua, N.H., recently unveiled plans to manufacture thin tent poles made of bamboo for a pair of its lightweight tent models beginning in late 2009. . .
Gear Review — Gerber Omnivore flashlight
The Omnivore, a new cigar-size flashlight from Gerber, is battery agnostic, meaning it will take power from any of the varying combinations of AA, AAA or CR123 batteries you can drop in its chamber. . .
Forbes story on “High-Tech Travel Gear”
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 to serve globetrotters who go far away and deep into new cultures on their own. . .
Petzl’s MYO RXP – The Gear Junkie Scoop
Petzl’s latest headlamp offering, a $100 LED model due out in January, offers light-level customization to let users tweak and finely tune the brightness setting of their own personal window of artificial daylight. . .
Gear Review — Energizer e2 Lithium Headlamp
That famous pink bunny powered by batteries has rolled into the outdoors arena with a headlamp offering — the Energizer e2 Lithium — that has several new and unique features for the category and surprisingly solid performance in my initial tests. . .
Ardica Technologies – The Gear Junkie Scoop
No black helicopters yet in sight, but this column covers a new DARPA-funded energy-density technology now trickling to the outdoors industry in the guise of four soon-to-be-released electrically-heated shell jackets from Mountain Hardwear. . .
Wired’s High-Tech Olympic Gear
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 made with the same liquid-crystal polymer threads as used in the airbags on NASA’s Mars rover. . .
Gear Review — Coghlan’s LED Micro Lantern
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 to stand in for a much larger source of light inside a tent. . .
Cord Lock Light
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 a built-in tiny LED light source. . .
Gear Review: Petzl SiGNAL light
The bottle-cap-size SiGNAL light from Petzl is a “multidirectional performance safety light,” according to the company. It’s a backup light source and blinker made for keeping in a backpack or stored stuffed away in the seat bag on a bike. This is my review of the product, a tiny, triple-bulb L.E.D. that may well have saved my life last week. . .
Case Study: PLB in Action
A mountaineering accident last week prompted Bill Becher, a writer friend of mine from southern California, to deploy a personal locator beacon (PLB) in hopes of rescue. This is a Q&A with Becher on the incident. . .
Gear Review — Corsair Inc. Flash Survivor
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 under the sea. . .
Gear Review — Adventure Lights Inc.
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 emergency lighting products, this is my full review. . .
The Jimi Wallet
After riding a self-proclaimed “Frankenbike” around the streets of San Francisco for several years, Mike O’Neill designed a new take on the stodgy old “Costanza” wallet. Indeed, the company slogan is “The Wallet for People Who Hate Wallets” . . .
Review: SPOT Satellite Messenger
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 and family. What makes it so special is that it can be employed in emergency situations and for NON-emergencies alike. This is my review. . .
