Fiberglass travel trailers with off-grid capability are an undeniable combination. There are a few perks that make such travel trailers worth every adventurer seeking a longer and happier stay away from home on the road. Fiberglass campers such as those perfected by the Tennessee-based Oliver Travel Trailers are lightweight to tow, all-season compatible, easy to maintain, and built to last.
Oliver currently has two trailer models in its lineup. The Legacy Elite, built on an 18.5-foot (5.6-m) single-axle trailer, and the dual-axle Legacy Elite II, which measures 23 feet (7 meters). To extend its portfolio for 2027, the company has revealed the new Apex X23. Built to put the pace of trips back into your hands, the X23 comes fully packed with a lounge, sleeping area, kitchen, and bathroom, well within the confines of a 23-foot, all-season fiberglass body.
Designer: Oliver Travel Trailers
Oliver Apex X23 is off-grid ready. Powered by a 48-volt system, the trailer is customized from the factory for adventures that take you beyond the organized campgrounds. Oliver is secretive about their new travel trailer and hasn’t revealed a lot of information about it, but they recently showed it off for the first time in a public debut at the Lone Star Overland Adventure & Powersports Show. “The response was everything we hoped for,” the company informs.
The X23 shares a very similar exterior to its predecessors; what actually differentiates it is the interior, which is now built around off-grid capabilities. The exterior is the same durable dual-hull construction. An insulation layer is sandwiched between the separate inner and outer fiberglass shells, which make the body completely airtight and stable for year-round use. The X23’s zero-wood construction body and interior are mold and corrosion-resistant, and the interior packs everything you need for a comfortable stay in the wild.
The travel trailer is aerodynamically designed for easy towing and increased fuel efficiency. The double-hull construction ensures that Oliver can easily hide away the water tank, plumbing, and many mechanical components within it. The interior is laid out with a twin bed or a choice of a king bed. The quilted leather dinette that converts into a third bed can seat up to seven people; however, it only has the capacity to sleep one additional person. The trailer fits almost a complete kitchen with an induction cooktop, a refrigerator, and a microwave with an air fryer.
The 23-foot space reimagined for off-grid travel is also provided with a bathroom with a shower. The cabinetry inside the trailer is part of the mold and is integrated into the fiberglass body. This ensures the structural integrity of the X23, which is powered by a 48V system. It features a 1,360W solar panel paired with a 3,000W inverter, and the power system is controlled by a central touchscreen control panel. The Apex X23 with a 400W rooftop solar panel starts at $107,000, while the cost may shoot up for the top-of-the-line 1,360W solar capacity trailer.
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The tabletop clock has been one of the quieter casualties of the smartphone era. Most people stopped owning them the moment a phone took over nightstand duty, and those that survived tend to be either nostalgic holdovers or objects that lean so hard into decoration that the time-telling part becomes secondary. The ones that actually last tend to be the ones that got the balance exactly right from the start.
Braun managed that balance better than anyone with the AB 20, a 1975 travel clock by Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs that reduced the concept of a clock to almost nothing unnecessary. Argentina-based industrial designer Agustin Papadopulos had that same spirit in mind when he designed TYME, a conceptual table clock that pushes minimalism further by starting from a literal flat sheet of steel.
Designer: Agustin Papadopulos
The process starts with a single laser-cut steel sheet, pre-scored along fold lines. Fold the sides inward, interlock the tabs, and a rigid three-dimensional case takes shape without a single screw or adhesive. There are no separate structural components. The entire chassis emerges from one piece of material, with nothing added and nothing wasted, just the geometry of the fold doing all the work.
Once the body is formed, the clock mechanism drops in from behind. A standard quartz movement fits inside the folded cavity, with the shaft passing through the circular dial on the face. The hands, two muted gray blades for hours and minutes and a thin red sweep for seconds, slip onto the shaft. A brass hex nut anchors everything with a deliberately exposed, industrial touch.
The face itself is a direct nod to the Braun AB 20’s design language. Four pill-shaped markers at the cardinal positions stand in for numerals, and the circular dial is etched lightly into the face rather than applied as a separate element. It’s been stripped to its most essential logic, which is exactly what Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs were doing with the AB 20 back in 1975.
Using a single sheet for both the structure and the visible surfaces makes good sense from a production standpoint. Laser cutting eliminates the need for molds or complex tooling. The fold lines that hold the body together are the same cuts that shape the overall form, so each incision does double duty. Less material, fewer components, and a simpler process all follow from that one decision.
There’s a quieter idea at work in TYME that goes well beyond material efficiency. Papadopulos frames folding not as a simple assembly step, but as the moment you bring the clock into existence. You’re not receiving a finished object. You’re closing the form, installing the hands, dropping in the battery, and starting the mechanism. The first second it ticks is genuinely yours to claim.
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