It can be difficult for anglers, keeping track of which fishing strategies work best for catching which species under what conditions. Japanese company smartLure is attempting to make the task easier, with its sensor-packin’ Model Zero lure. Users start by powering the Model Zero up, then casting it just as they would any other lure. As soon as it goes […]
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NFC Inner Tube Lets Cyclists Checks Air Pressure With Smartphones
Austrian manufacturer Tubolito is already known for its tough, lightweight plastic bicycle inner tubes. Now, the company has added a chip to one model, which allows users to check their tire pressure using an app. Known as the Tubo-MTB PSENS, the new mountain-bike-specific tube incorporates a pressure-sensing NFC (near field communication) chip that reportedly weighs only a few grams. Like […]
Cranking Up The Heat With Solar Oven
For eight years or so, GoSun has been offering outdoor enthusiasts clean ways of cooking up their meals through a range of solar-powered stoves, grills and ovens. Its latest and greatest is billed as its fastest and most powerful yet, enabling it to reach fire-like temperatures, while creating no smoke or emissions. Called the GoSun Sizzle, the company’s new solar […]
Magnus Desk Keeps Cables In Check
Placing a laptop on a dining table or kitchen worktop might be fine for the odd surfing session or video chat, but if you want run a couple of monitors, and have your on-charge smartphone or podcasting hardware nearby, you may soon notice cable spaghetti becoming an issue. The Magnus desk from Secretlab can help keep your home workspace tidy. […]
Biometric ID Helps To Identify Lost Dogs
Just like our fingerprints, the shape and pattern of each dog’s nose is unique to that animal. Bearing this in mind, pet food company Iams has launched a “nose-centric” app for identifying lost dogs – appropriately enough, it’s called NOSEiD. After initially downloading the free iOS/Android app, users start by following the onscreen prompts, utilizing their smartphone to take a […]
Roo Backpack
Most outdoorsy types select a backpack based on the amount of stuff that they usually carry … but what happens when they occasionally need to carry more? Well, in the case of the Roo, they just pull the backpack open and insert an extra bag. Designed by Spanish outdoor gear company K.ngaroo, the Roo looks like a regular heavy-duty nylon […]
Grab-and-go Overland Stove
The founder of Trayvax wallets and Kimbo campers, Mark King, brings together the worlds of everyday carry (EDC) and overland adventure with his latest product, the Trayvax Ration. Something of a vehicle-adventure survival tool, the Ration packs a single-burner cooking kit next to an organizer for supplies like food, bottled water, utensils and multitools. It’s like a modern-day mess kit […]
Autonomous Street Sweeper In Helsinki
After first unveiling a fully autonomous electric street sweeper last year, Finland’s Trombia Technologies has taken to the streets of Helsinki as part of the Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab. This saw the Trombia Free begin operations along the Helsinki Baana bicycle lane as well as night-time street cleaning elsewhere in the city. The Trombia Free has the look of an oversized […]
UK To Legalise Self Driving Cars
The UK’s Department of Transport has announced that it’s moving to conditionally legalize self-driving cars in which the driver doesn’t have to pay attention to the road or keep their hands on the wheel, in a move that it expects will save lives. This is a distinction from what’s currently legal – level two driver assistance in which drivers are […]
reTyre Traction System
When wheelchair users are traversing loose or slippery surfaces (such as snow or wet sidewalks), it would help if their chairs had knobby, grippy tires. Well, that’s what the reTyre Traction system is claimed to give them, within a matter of seconds. reTyre first came to our attention in 2018, when the Norwegian company introduced a setup that allows mountain […]