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2017’s Coolest Camping Gear

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Who said you have to endure the rough and tough outdoor life when going camping? With all the convenience that the modern world has to give you, you will surely find camping a delightful experience. You’ll get to appreciate camping, even more, when you have these gear and facilities that bring in comfort as you enjoy the exhilarating feel of what outdoor living is. So to get you ready for your next 2017 camping trip with family and friends, here are our top picks of the cool camping gear that you should have.

 

Nightstick Multi-Function Headlamp

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When night times comes and you’re still trekking, the least you want to happen is suffer an injury because your path is poorly lit! The Nightstick multifunction headlamp not just adjustable to fit anyone, but it is available with a life-saving strobe light that will automatically alert oncoming cars or nearby travelers, letting them know that you’re just around the corner.

Survival Gear Kit

When you decide to hit the wild, you never know what’ll be thrown at on your path. The best thing you could do is have a Image via: AmazonSurvival Gear Kit within your reach! It guarantees you’ll have all the necessary things you need—from having the drinking water to warm fire to keep you up and going.

Tear-Resistant Family-Size Tent

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Planning to hit the road with the family this weekend? Never leave without this tear-resistant family size tent! Why squeeze yourself in a small, motel room when you can set up a portable and durable tent in just minutes! So hit a park or a spot with a view and let be the night sky be your ceiling as you enjoy a comfortable sleep inside your tent.

Self-Inflating Sleeping Pad with Pillow

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Camping has never been this comfortable, thanks to this self-inflating sleeping pad that also comes with a pillow. Say good bye to usual hardground because this lightweight sleeping pad offers you the convenience you need minus the bulk, weight, or air compressor. All you need is just a few breaths and you have the sleeping pad to slumber on.  it comes with a sturdy valve, with open-cell foam and nonslip soft touch, waterproof skin that ensures your warmth and comfort.

Survival Sparkl®  Fire Starter with Compass and Whistle

The Image via: AmazonSurvival Sparkl® isn’t just your usual fire starter, it also comes with a top notch compass and a 150 DB emergency whistle all kept together in one lanyard for safe keeping.  Now, you can light your bonfire, prepare your BBQ fire with the Survival Spark that’ll make it very easy for you.

Camping Water Bottle

Never go camping without bringing water with you! It’s a must necessity wherever you go. However, you also have to make sure you have enough space on your backpack or camping gear when bringing in your water supply. When getting a water bottle, you want something that’s convenient to take, leak-proof, BPA-free, and safe—the Image via: AmazonForis Vacuu-Insulated Stainless Bottle is just what you need! Designed and manufactured with hikers and campers in mind, this water bottle guarantees you’ll have a cool supply of water to quench your thirst as you hike to your destination.

Camping Light with Ceiling Fan Lantern

Spring and summer are the perfect time to camp, surely, but nights may also prove warm and uncomfortable.  What you need is a Image via: Amazontent light that comes with a fan to keep you cool through the night. You can place it overhead or adjust to a standing position for directional cooling.

Therm-a-Rest Compressible Pillow

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Who said just because you’re camping you have to keep yourself in discomfort? The Therm-a-Rest Compressible pillow will eat up only a small space in your baggage but will provide you with the comfort you need to rest your head after a tiresome day.

Buckeye Outdoor Gear Camping Hammock

Perhaps, when you find the right place to enjoy the perfect view—it could be at the beach or on the hilltop. Now, what you want to do is rest on a hammock and lull yourself to the beauty that surrounds you. If this kind of fancy runs in your mind, then bring it to reality with the Buckeye Outdoor Gear Camping Hammock. It comes with a full-pack set of kits for 100% rest and relaxation. Its high-strength tree straps and hooks will ensure sturdy support for you. It also comes with 8 convenient utility loops on the hammock and one stuff bag, which you can use to secure your stuff wherever you go.  While other hammocks take some time to install, Buckeye Outdoor Guar guarantees you of a portable, quick-to-install one. No knots needed! Simply clip into any of the 14 tree strap loops and you can adjust your hammock height without the hassle!

So what are you waiting for? Get these cool camping gear you need, pack your bags and head to the nearest campsite near you. With the convenience that these gear have to offer, you’ll definitely want to make camping a usual activity that everyone in the family will surely enjoy.

Who Wouldn’t Want a Floating Carpet?

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We’ve outgrown bouncing castles, kiddie swings, and quite a few other playful/calming things in life… but we find our way around, don’t we? The Levitat is an ageless way to enjoy, unwind, and bond. The three-way floating mat is big enough for a family or a group of friends to lounge on, or for you to meditate on.

Its triangular design makes it great for groups, allowing 3 people or 6 children to relax on its bouncy yet cushion-y fabric. The very idea of being suspended above the ground allows for a completely different experience and feeling, giving people more joy than actually being on the ground. Spread out a picnic mat and you’ll have a regular gathering, put out something like the Levitat and the social get-together immediately becomes exciting and memorable!

Doing the job of a hammock as well as a spread, the triangular aerial mat is designed to immediately give you the feeling of being suspended in space, an emotion immediately known to calm even the toughest nerves. It helps therapeutically, while also increasing blood flow, inherently making you feel relaxed, yet alert. The suspended mat makes an ideal yoga spread too, allowing you to work your core muscles as you balance while exercising or meditating.

The Levitat’s uniqueness stems from its approach towards reinventing how we ‘lounge’. Hammocks are too personal, and a picnic mat is much too boring. The Levitat takes exactly the same amount of space as a picnic mat (it folds compactly into a bag) and comes equipped with a stand, or can easily be hooked to other supports like trees, etc. The fabric is lightweight, durable, and (hallelujah) sand-sifting, making Levitat perfect for all locations including the beach. The Levitat doesn’t come with age restrictions either! Don’t settle for a picnic mat when you can do so much better, right?

Designers: Levitat Design & OiKo Design

BUY NOW: $155 $240

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Above is the Levi-stand, designed for any indoor or outdoor location.

This Hanging Basket Chair Is Volcanic

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Relax in the comfort of your own volcano. Sort of. Not that volcanoes are comfortable. The Ibis Volcanic Basalt Hanging Basket Chair is a handmade chair that’s made from natural resin and volcanic basalt fiber.

That pair of natural materials is super durable, and will look awesome inside or outside your home. The chair hangs from the ceiling, which is perfect because you will feel like you are playing that kid’s game where the floor is made of hot lava. It is the perfect way to incorporate a little bit of nature into your home.

It’s literally much cooler than a chair made of lava. It also pairs nicely with a lava lamp. Okay, I’ll stop.

[via The Gadget Flow]

There’s No Problem a Hammock Can’t Solve

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You have to tip your hat to whoever invented the hammock. He/she took two of the most wonderful activities in the world (swinging and sleeping) and smushed them together to make an experience that’s truly leisurely! In that regard, the YOBO Hammock Stand probably needs some hat tipping too. Its the world’s lightest, most portable and most durable hammock stand.

The stand comes from the company YOBO (short for You Oughta Be Outdoors!), a collective of trailblazers who love outdoors and live for the outdoors. The stand is is pretty amazing in the sense that it is entirely collapsible, incredibly durable, and weighs at a stunning 2 pounds. For something that light, it can still withstand up to 300 pounds of weight (that’s a hundred and fifty times its own) without collapsing, slipping, or giving away. The stand fits into rocky terrain as well as soil, and comes with anchor pins for a solid grip.

You can use just one YOBO hammock stand as a tether point and tie the other end of a hammock to a nearby tree or pole, or if you’re in a more lawn sort of atmosphere, two Hammock Stands should do just fine. If you’ve got a three way hammock, just grab yourself a third Hammock Stand! They’re so lightweight and compact, you’ll want to hammock wherever you go!

The Hammock Stand outdoes itself by also providing an extension for attaching a tarp on top, because why should sunlight or rainfall come in the way of well deserved hammock time! It even comes with a lifetime guarantee, cuz hammocks are 4 lyf, yo! 😀

Designers: Calvin Fenton & Jake Lah

BUY IT HERE: $120.00

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Let’s Make Drone-powered Hammocks a Reality

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Imagine soaring through the sky as you lay back and relax on your hammock, watching the world pass by below you. Visualize falling asleep as two drones carry you gently through the clouds. This could happen if we just make drone-powered hammocks a reality.

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This awesome flying creation is unfortunately not real, but it should be. It is the work of visual effects artists for a Netherlands-based insurance company Centraal Beheer. We need to make this a reality though.

Forget flying cars. I want a flying hammock. I guess you would be required to wear a seatbelt so you don’t fall out. And a parachute.

[via Likecool via Gizmodo]

Use Your Car to String up Your Hammock

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Hammocks are a great way to relax, whether in your backyard or when you are camping. But what if you can’t find two good trees to string your hammock to? Well, if you have your car nearby, it’s no problem with the Roadie Car Hammock Stand.

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This clever solution comes from Eagle Nest Outfitters, and is actually a pair of vertical supports held in place by the weight of your vehicle. Just put each in front of the tires on one side of your car, and then drive it forward so that the tires are resting on each base. You now have a hammock stand guaranteed not to fall over. Time to lay back and relax.

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It will cost you $200(USD), but that’s a small price to pay for relaxation anywhere.

[via Gearjunkie via Gizmodo]

The NodPod, a Hammock for Your Head

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It’s hard to get sleep on a plane, a train, or any chair really. Thank God that the NodPod finally exists. This thing is basically a hammock for your big fat head, holding it in place so you can sleep.

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The lady in the picture is either super comfortable because of the NodPod, or she is all drugged up from going to the dentist. Either way, she’s loving that her head is supported for once.

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You can use NodPod while traveling in the car too. Though I’m not too sure about it, since it might snap your neck in a car accident. But you won’t care. You’ll be sleeping. Resting in peace. Shhh. Go to the light. Your heavy head is no more.

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The NodPod was created by Paula Blankenship and cost only $25(USD). It already has blown through its goal on Kickstarter, so it should definitely be going into production.

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Outdoors and Chill

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Earlier this week, we saw the trampoline chair, today we take a look at the hanging tent chair! The Cacoon is your hammock upgrade that you can hang from anywhere and instantly make it your cozy little zen space!

Designed to feel like a hammock, but give you the leisure and shade of a tent, the Cacoon is perfect for turning any space into an instant recreation and chill zone. The Cacoon is available in different colors as well as sizes, so you can choose between going solo, or chilling with your crew! Wait… did I also mention that it’s absolutely portable?!

Designers: Nick & Sarah McDonald

Buy It Here: $224.99 $370.00

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Koze Inflatable Hammock Keeps You Koze While Kamping

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One of the keys to having fun camping is being comfortable. It’s easy enough to be comfortable inside the tent – all you need is one of the plethora of available thin inflatable mattresses to lay on. What isn’t so easy to do is to get comfortable on breaks during your hike out to a camping site or around the fire at night. If you are car camping, you can just trot your chairs out and have a sit.

If you have to schlep stuff away from your car, carrying a few of those collapsible chairs can be a real pain, and they aren’t very comfortable to sit in. This is where Koze comes in.

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The Koze is an air inflatable hammock or couch that multiple people can sit or lay on. They look very comfortable indeed and they collapse down into a small bag that weighs about two pounds. It’s made from parachute nylon and promises to stay filled for up to six hours and holds up to 400 pounds. It looks a bit bulky for minimalist backpacking trips, but it’s still way better than a hammock, which is bulky and you have to find a campsite near trees. Of course, it’s not just for camping either, and you can use it pretty much anywhere you need an impromptu seat.

It’s made from parachute nylon and promises to stay filled for up to six hours and holds up to 400 pounds. The project is on Kickstarter right now. Its makers were seeking to raise just $4,000, have has raised over $50,000 at the time of writing. A pledge of $60 will get you a Koze with shipping set for June 2016.

Finally, a Hammock for the Office

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Unless you work for a dotcom flush with seed money for a concept that you really really believe in but will never actually come to fruition or you work for a hammock company, you probably can’t install an actual hammock in your office. But you can put in the Fuut, a little foot rest hammock that goes under your desk, strung up with some clamps and rope.
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Sure you can’t go the full on George Costanza route and sleep under there but at least you can elevate your feet. The Fuut lets you put your feet up in either the higher “rest” position for maximum leisure or the way way more serious lower “work” position. If you don’t want to put your feet in it, you can store bananas in it. (via holycool)

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