This is a outdoors emergency power gadget, it can be charged using good old sunlight or via the AC adaptor. It is design to use as a spare battery source when your electronic gizmos runs out of juice. Packed with the device is a number of adaptors to fit you gear. Just for the fun of it, it also packs a compass, a digital watch and a LED flashlight.
DealExtreme via Gizmodo
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The Cocoon is hanging emergency shelter designed by industrial designer John Moriarty. Inside, the user is comforted by a warming colours and materials that will ensure they stay warm no matter what the conditions are like outside.
via Gizmodo
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This is for all my Germany friends, Lederhosen with built in MP3 player control!
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Some time ago I wrote about the outdoor bible, now is looks like it has got some competition, the Camo Bible. Just don’t drop it, it will be hard to find!
via Reuters
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Check this out a Bikini that will charge your iPod. Ok, it might not be that useful, but on the other hand, when your bikini is on there ought to be a lot of sun. So next time you go hiking, don’t forget the bikini. I wonder how my girlfriend would react, I guess that I can wait for the male version that is on it’s way..
Unravel via Talk2MyShirt
Posted in Power, Weird

Mountain-biker? Fed up will all those hikers getting in the way? Check this out, a bicycle horn that gives a 115 decibels sound “blast” (a car horn is 110 decibels). If that doesn’t get those hikers of the trail nothing will!
Brando via Gizmodo
Posted in Weird, Mountainbike

A potential lifesaver, your very own dogtag, telling who you are in case of an accident.
via: Road ID
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The “One Laptop per Child” or OLPC is project by Nicholas Negroponte to supply children in third world countries with cheap computers, but looking at the specifications it looks like third world children have much the same needs as an on the trail hacker.
The laptop will only weigh 1.5 kg (53 oz) and be dust and water proof enough. It will operate at altitudes varying from –15m to 3048m. Power wont be a problem since the batteries can be charged with a hand crank.
There will also a built in wireless network that will connect to other on the trail hackers, if there are any that is. A 3G module might be handy though.
Today these laptops are not available to purchase but Reuters reports that they will start to sell around Christmas.
Posted in Computers, Weird