20 Wild Camping Innovations (SUPER GALLERY) Edit

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Going camping this summer? If you want to be the most cutting edge family in the wilderness, you’ll want to keep this list of innovations handy while you’re packing.

We’ve rounded up the best gadgets for survival in the great outdoors, from necessities like compact tents to the downright bizarre like canned cheeseburgers.

With a backpack full of these things, how could you not be a happy camper?

3 Survival Kits

Sardine Can Survival Kit - 25 Tin-Packed Items to Save Your Life

This can of sardine could presumably save your life some day. The “survival kit”, packed in an air-tight, crush-proof, water-proof can, contains 25 survival items that you will surely need if you ever… [More]

Swiss Glamour Camping Kit - Have All Your Neccesities In One Place (GALLERY)

There are things that make me think: i want those! Then there are things that take your breath away, and without thinking you look for the order button. The Swiss Glamour Camping Kit is one of these, made… [More]

Ultimate Outdoors Juice - Solar Powered Digital Survival Kit (GALLERY)

We have seen some solar charging docks before, but they did not come cheap. For $33 you can now have a features-packed digital kit that keeps your mobile phone, media player and all your gadget juices… [More]

8 Camping Must-Haves

11 Kinetic Energy Innovations, Free Green Energy

In the quest for eco-friendly gadgets and toys, we are seeing more and more designs that utilize kinetic energy. In addition to helping the planet, kinetic charging provides a convenient and free energy… [More]

Urine-Powered Batteries – Aqua Power Survival Batteries

The Japanese company Aqua Power manufactures batteries in various sizes that are using almost any type of liquid as a catalyst.  In this case: urine.  The liquids cause a reaction between the aluminium… [More]

Pocket Shower - Luxuries of Home in the Wild

Who says you have to stay stinky when you are roughing it up in the outdoors? The Pocket Shower is your new camping friend that will ensure you get the luxury of a nice shower in the wild. Made from… [More]

Paper Shampoo - Airport Security Safe Hygiene Innovations

No more excuses for dirty hair! Paper Shampoo is the answer to the recent airline security restrictions on liquids. In addition to traveling, this ultra compact unique shampoo can be great for camping… [More]

Canned Cheeseburger - Junk Food With 12 Month Shelf Life

To me thinking of camping food brings on images of dehydrated space style food with ice cream being the most exciting thing on offer. However, Swiss-based company Katadyn have begun to change all of that… [More]

Bottled Dinners - MEATwater (GALLERY)

Embracing your inner carnivore? Check out the pig tattoo, severed arm holding the bottle. From Beef Jerky to Teriyaki Chicken to Wiener Schnitzel—yes, Wiener Schnitzel ewwww and it’s pink—dinner… [More]

Flask On The Fly - Pocket Shots (VIDEO)

What’s that in your pocket? Your friends will be oh so envious when they find out what you brought to the golf course, ballgame or down to the river. No, it’s not a fat wallet—it’s a personal, single… [More]

Battery Lights

A 9v Battery + a light bulb + designer Richard Lawson = A Richard Lawson designed 9v battery lamp of course. These things are so cool, simple, conversation staters that are perfect for outside entertaining… [More]

9 Campers & Tents

N!ergy Tent - Luxury Tent Comes With Power

You can still have some comfort like back home while on a camping trip with the N!ergy tent.  The tent includes an E! Power Pak which powers 12-volt gadgets right inside the tent. The system combines three… [More]

BMW’s Air Camper

BMW drivers will now enjoy camping (even they don’t actually camp) with the BMW’s Air Camper, an inflatable tent attach to the back end of the car [More]

Deseo’s Modern Camper - A Modular Caravan For the Uber-Trendy (GALLERY)

When you hear the word ‘camper’ do images of orange and brown shag carpeting, faux-wood panelling and cramped spaces come to mind? Well no more with Deseo’s Modern Camper. It’s slick, trendy and oh-so-modular.… [More]

Mobile Hotel Rooms - Introducing The Travelodge TravelPod

Want a hotel you can bring with you?  Travelodge UK has launched the TravelPod, the world’s first mobile hotel room.  Take it to a major event or an exotic location. Very Cool. From Giz Magazine: If camping… [More]

Pitching a tent has never been so easy.

Pitching a tent isn’t hard, but it is one of those things that seems to encounter endless problems for newbies. It’s invariably done when it’s going dark, when you’re dog tired and its almost always… [More]

Camping on a Parking Space

ART - (P) LOT is an ongoing public art project by Michael Rakowitz.  His goal: to encourage society to reconsider what is considered a “legitimate” use city space.  In other words, camping in a parking… [More]

Inflatable Air Insulated Dog House

What will they think of next! Inflatable Air Insulated Dog House. When the wife kicks you out make sure you have one of these in the garage. The Ritz for the backyard. Who said camping can’t be fun? [More]

Travel Eco-Friendly in The Westfalia Verdier Solar Power Caravan (GALLERY)

If you’re a camper or long-distance road traveller - Verdier has got a treat for you! The have launched a new breed of caravan that is completely self-sufficient and runs on solar power. The aesthetic… [More]

Camping Rafts - Floating Cabins (GALLERY)

People have camped near water bodies since the beginning of time, but camping directly on the water is now possible thanks to floating cabins. The pointed roof cabins are built on log rafts made of tree… [More]

BONUS: Not into tents? Check out these cool outdoor resorts

Wigwam Win - Tee Pee Motel (VIDEO)

What would you do if you won the state lottery? Bryon Woods, a Texan diesel mechanic used his US$49 million win to buy a piece of American history while simultaneously fulfilling his wife’s childhood dream… [More]

Glamping in Clayoquot – Spoiled Urbanites Can Enjoy Nature Too

As summer approaches, warmer weather coaxes us outdoors again to enjoy Earth’s vast natural beauty. Thoughts of balmy evenings evoke happy childhood memories of camping and lazy nights under the stars.… [More]