Field Candy tentsCamping eye candy here with the Field Candy's eclectic range of designs in a classic tent shape featuring everything from photo-real outsized watermelon slices to garden sheds to illustrated graphics and more.
This fantastic Big Top design is just one of more than 40 different patterns.
The two-person tents are well made despite their novelty exteriors, with practical porches for storage, heavy-duty zippers behind Velcro flaps and robust waterproof, breathable cotton.
Big Top Design, €600 from fieldcandy.com
Contour Roam Camera
These days it’s de rigueur that any sort of act of derring-do is videoed for YouTube posterity. Or at least to make the insurance claim afterwards. If it involves gravity, speed, steepness, big water or simply sheer bloody-nosedness, this is the sort of kit you’ll need.
The Roam is just one of the latest from Contour, which specialises in hands-free video cameras. This one has one-touch recording, so you can quickly and easily get filming and a 170-degree wide-angle lens to capture the collateral damage left and right, or perhaps the open-mouthed shock of onlookers. And you can shoot at up to 1080p video resolution or 5MP stills. The Roam’s case has a gasket seal, which keeps it waterproof to about a metre for use in all conditions or while surfing, for example. Of course, Contour has a range of accessories and fittings, including a fully waterproof case if you want to record your final scuba encounter with a great white. It also records audio.
£164(€197) from amazon.co.uk
Bogs Boots
Think of these as wellies on steroids. They have the high protection of a wellington, but with traineresque comfort and a bit more to boot, such as being able to handle temperatures as low as -40ºC thanks to its multi-layered neo-tech insulation. The unfortunately named Bogs have a new women’s outdoor boot, the Plimsoll launching shortly with a neoprene and rubber combo. The handles on the top on each side allow you to pull them on easily and each has with an anti-bacterial odour-resistant insole. From $100, bogsfootwear.com
Sinch
Travelling with your MP3 player can certainly be a great way to kill time on a journey – as you try to untangle the dense, cryptic knotting of your earphone cords that is. Welcome the Sinch, another neat way for the anally retentive to well, retain.
It’s a deceptively simple, stretchy rubbery strip that you attach to your player or smartphone with the earphones jack. Then just wrap the cables around it and fold it up. Cue its tah-dah moment. Powerful little magnets then lock the Sinch closed, binding your wiring all in place and making unwinding a cinch.
$16, thesinch.com