Sitpack is lighting crowdfunding on fire once again. About a year after rolling to victory with a $336,000 campaign for its Octo titanium carabiner multitool, the Danish company finds itself in the midst of an even more successful six-figure campaign. This one’s for the Campster 2, a faster, lower version of the original ultra-portable Campster. The new iteration packs down to the size […]

Skateboarding can be a fun way of getting around town, but most boards have to be either carried by hand or strapped onto a backpack when not in use. The Koala Boards skateboard offers an easier alternative, as it magnetically snaps onto an accompanying pack. Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the Koala was designed by New Jersey-based skateboarder […]

Last year, Duovox launched a successful Kickstarter for a compact full-color night-vision camera built around a custom Sony sensor. Now the startup has returned to the platform with a military-grade monocular rocking full color and IR night vision capabilities. Aimed at after-dark explorers, nocturnal wildlife lovers, outdoor adventurers or anyone curious about the secret worlds beyond our visual capabilities, the Duovox […]

Vacuum-insulated coolers have been emerging on the market over the past few years, among them the precision-temperature Qool Box and the adjustable-zone Dam Cooler. Norwegian startup Oyster puts its own stamp on the genre with the aluminum-clad Tempo, a cooler so efficiently insulated, it doesn’t need ice to keep food and drinks cold. That iceless design teams with a thin-walled construction to ensure […]

A new 16-string, single-fret acoustic instrument called the Hanago has launched on Kickstarter, which is designed to combine the best aspects of piano and guitar to make learning to play easy, while also laying down the foundations of music theory. The Hanago is already on sale in South Korea via music brand Koaura, and is launching to US string pickers […]

Italy’s enduro ebike specialist Thok has launched a stealthy mixed-wheel trail adventurer called the Gram RC that’s built around a stiff and light full carbon frame and is powered by a Shimano motor with matching battery. The Gram RC’s full carbon enduro frame comes in four sizes to accommodate riders from 1.54 to 2 m (5 – 6.5 ft) in […]

Folks who spend much of their home-working time tapping away at a keyboard, and also suffer from cold hands, can find keeping their digits toasty during winter months something of an expensive problem. Danish startup Varme has sought to address such issues with a power-sipping desktop hand warmer. The Varme hand heater is the brainchild of engineer Søren Abildgaard and […]

Heated insoles we’ve looked at previously generally use batteries to create electrical heat for warming up icy toes. French company Solecooler has a different idea. It bypasses the electrical hardware and gets its power straight from the source: the feet themselves. Its insoles use mechanical energy from basic stepping motions to drive integrated heating and cooling elements. The reversible two-sided design means […]

People suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) often have difficulty raising their arms, due to deterioration of cells in their brain and spinal cord. A new wearable system is designed to help, utilizing a pair of under-arm balloons. Created by a team of scientists at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, the halter-type setup incorporates two Y-shaped soft-robotic actuators, located […]

Admit it – when you walk on one of those “moving sidewalks” at an airport, you like to pretend that you’re easily able to stroll at superhuman speeds. Well, Rollkers are designed to give you that same sensation, as you walk down city streets. A new version of an older invention, the Rollkers were created by a French startup of the […]