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A camping table usually isn’t the first thing you think of when packing up for a weekend in the woods, but sometimes…it’s exactly what you need. The Helinox Table One Hard Top is a foldable, pack-able camping table with a hard top, so you can a nice, flat, even surface for cooking, chopping, or playing cards.
If you haven’t yet made the leap to a stainless-steel water bottle, you really ought to. You’ll be able to say goodbye to funky plastic smells and the possibility of chemicals leaching into your water, and your bottle will become much more attractive in the process.
While we’ve heard products make a lot of bold claims, the Smith Lowdown Focus make a pretty interesting one: These sunglasses claim to improve your focus, particularly in athletic situations requiring intense focus, and heighten your sense of awareness, using special “brain-sensing” technology integrated into the glass that senses your eye movement and uses it to read your brain. Somehow.
With all the various tablets and smartphones out there replacing our traditional PC’s, HP wants to create something new – a “Detachable PC,” which appears to be a fancy name for a super-powerful, all-in-one PC/tablet hybrid, as we would call it.
It can be tough for some of us camera nerds to admit, but the iPhone really has revolutionized the game. There’s no need to drop hundreds or thousands on camera when that phone you already carry in your pocket can shoot in 4k anyway and get some pretty good results.
We don’t normally advocate replacing all your meals with shakes but…sometimes you just need something in a pinch. Something you can grab as you run out the door or after a workout to quell the hunger until the next meal. Something you can store in your bag as a snack easily grabbed anywhere you are. Enter Soylent.
If nothing but the most luxurious chair ever will do when lounging around the beach or campfire, then you want the Nemo Stargate Recliner. This isn’t your typical lawn-chair, but a rocking chair made to rock on any surface – rock, gravel, dirt, sand at the beach.
For some reason, moccasins often have the connotation of being cheap, casual footwear – something kids wear, or you wear as slippers. But we don’t think that’s fair – and neither does Yuketen, who makes these totally-rugged, beautiful American-Made moccasins.
When you need a day bag to carry all your essentials to and from work, school, or just around town, you need bag that is two things: tough and as simple as can be. You don’t need tons of frills, you just need a dependable place to store your gear, and the lighter and more-streamlined, the better. In other words, you need the Mystery Ranch Urban Assault Pack.
With a top speed of 22 miles an hour, 14-mile maximum range and sweet new composite deck, the Boosted Plus is the new-for-2018, made-over rendition of the Boosted, which was one of the original electric skateboards on the market. Every component has been remastered and re-engineered for better performance.
If you’re looking for the most versatile pair of bike shorts on the market, look no further than the Patagonia Dirt craft. These two-layer bike shorts are designed to look as good off the trail as they do on it, while being supremely comfortable the whole time.
POC is a Swedish company, dedicated to making the best safety gear possible for cyclists and extreme sports. As with so many things Swedish, their gear finds the perfect fusion of form and function, looking sleek and modern while still offering ample protection for whatever impact might be thrown your way. Enter the Tectal Bike Helmet.
Located in Tain, Scotland, Glenmorangie is a Highland Distillery that boasts distinction of having the tallest stills in Scotland - standing more than 26 feet tall, and lending a sweeter, lighter flavor to the whisky they produce. The Glenmorangie distillery goes all the way back to 1843, and for years, the 16 Men Of Tain, as they were called, distilled single malt whisky around the clock.
Another item you never asked for, but somebody made anyway, Modobag is officially the weirdest suitcase we have ever seen. While rolling suitcases, and even some motorized ones, have existed for some time, we’ve never seen one as beastly and hefty as this one – it combines a motorized suitcase with a ride-on scooter that can accommodate riders up to 260 pounds.
Drip coffee makers are often seen as the bottom-rung of coffee makers. They are just cheap, easy ways to make coffee at home in the most hands-off way possible, and the brew they do produce is regarded as…weak. Subpar. But hold on. The Technivorm Moccamaster is here to change your opinion about drip coffee makers.
Outfitting your mountain bike with the right tires e tires can make or break your offroad exploits. In the same way that bulky, overly treaded tires will slow you down on the road, tires that are too smooth and too small will affect your traction on the trail, ruining your cornering as well as being potentially unsafe. Choosing the right bike tires is no different than choosing some for you car, really, and it’s important to find the right set.
If you’ve ever wanted to have your own Segway you could ride around, without having to go on some lame tour, and the Segway unicycle just wasn’t doing it for you – you’re in luck. The Segway miniPro is as close as you can get to the real Segway, without spending 5 grand.
While there is certainly no shortage of various ways to cook at the campsite out there, very few offer the kind of value this set of Yodo cookware does.
The only thing that sucks more than a flat tire on your bike? A punctured tire, which is sure to put a damper on that all-day ride you’ve been planning. Every cyclist worth his or her salt will have a spare inner tube in their kit, but it can be difficult to carry around entire spare tires, unless you’re going solo touring or on a multi-day trip.
As silly as the idea of a spork has always seemed, it’s really a handy tool. Cut your utensils in half on the trail, take up less room the bag, and make everything that much simpler.
Speck says their Presidio Grip case is designed for impact, and at first glance, it shows. The case features what they call IMPACTIUM Shock Barrier – a band of ridges made of Impactium (a shock absorbing synthetic material similar to TPE) that line the inside of the Presidio.
AquaForno is part-grill, part-smoker, part-rotisserie – and even part-pizza oven, all rolled into one. It’s also completely portable and can run of several different kinds of fuel all at once. That’s a lot to handle, but it looks like the AquaForno delivers.
Estwing has been making reliable outdoor tools for 95 years, and every piece they create is imbued with a sense of classic American workmanship and rugged outdoorsmanship. The Sportsman’s Axe is the most famous example of this; no doubt you've seen the classic lacquered leather handle in a toolshed or barn