Vango Velocity 300 TriedVango Velocity 300 TriedWe're just back from the Lakes where we took part in a very wet and windy two-day mountain bike challenge - the Lakes Epic, more about that tomorrow - but also got the chance to try out Vango's new AirBeam

To see the AirBeam tent in action, fast forward to the 16:50 mark on the video.Vango's new rapid-pitching inflatable tent AirBeam system was selected as one of the top three innvoations at the recent Gadget Show Live and featured on the Monday night

Vango's inflatable AirBeam tents were among our favourite new products of last year. Utlising inflatable beam instead of poles, the tents go up as one single unit and pitch in minutes - all you need to do is inflate each beam with the supplied air

Remember Nemo, the US tent brand that supports its lightweight tents with air-filled beams instead of conventional poles? Well, from next spring, Vango's going to be doing something very similar with a technology they're calling AirBeam

Vango's PR team has message for high altitude freefall Austrian, Felix Baumgartner, and it is "Next time use an AirBeam for a little more space"...It all goes back to Vango's mildy bonkers mission to put an AirBeam tent into space earlier this year

for larger and heavier tents, the second is Nemo, which focuses on bivvy tents and the third is Heimplanet, which currently has the Cave. But if The Wedge does go into production for 2013, it should be the closest to a backpackable, spacious, air-beam tent

The original Cave from Heimplanet was a mad-looking dome tent held up by fast-inflating air beams, it was impressively fast pitching, but a tad heavy and expensive, but now the surf-inspired Germans have a new lighter, slightly more affordable model called The Wedge.We first saw ...

The guys at Vango have taken space exploration to another level, on 11 May 2012, they launched one of their new inflatable AirBeam tents into space, with the aim, they say, of 'democratising space tourism'.The tent, complete with four-person team

New in for the review is the  Nemo Gogo LE one-person, single-skin tent, which uses Nemo's innovative Airbeam technology instead of conventional poles.Nemo Equipment is an American tent brand that's just arrived in the UK for this spring and what

air-beam systems being used by Nemo, Heimplanet and F10's sister company Vango, and a general decrease in weight at the lighter end of the market, and while this isn't exactly a revolution, it's an interesting new tweak that, if Force Ten