If you read my light-hearted look at the ingenious twig-burning BioLite stove last week and wondered what on earth it was for, here's one answer, the BioLite guys set up a phone-charging stand in the power-starved post-Sandy streets of New York to allow locals to charge their phones and enjoy a ...  Continue reading

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Floppy-haired TV adventurer Ben Fogle now has his own eponymous Ben Fogle BUFF,which seems unlikely, but there it is above in glorious technicolor complete with Ben's very own name and a squiggle isobaric-type design....

It was, says BUFF, 'Designed specifically for Ben to celebrate his ...  Continue reading

This is the new Silva Runner headtorch, which puts up some serious numbers, like 550 lumens output with a 110-metre beam range, a weight - without battery - of a very reasonable 62g and, unfortunately, a price tag of £159.99.

If that seems an excessive amount of light for a running-orientated head ...  Continue reading

We've been a bit slow on this one, but if you're looking at making your own outdoors videos, then the good news is that the market-leading GoPro Hero just got a whole lot better with the announcement of the imminent launch of the new GoPro Hero 3.

The new version of the ...  Continue reading

We saw Paramo's new, rather more contemporary Analogy jackets a few weeks back at OTS - see our report and images - so we've already covered the basics, but here's a bit more info direct from the horse's mouth at Paramo.

Light Gets Heavier But Tougher...

The basics are that there are ...  Continue reading

Hi-Tec's new Para Boot kind of slipped in under the radar, didn't see it until an image dropped into my inbox the other day, at which point it was a kind of 'what the hell is that?' moment.

We ran a quick 'Bonkers Boot' news story with the basic info gleaned from ...  Continue reading