Everything should be waterproof. Especially phones, because you know how you love to poop and talk. You can thankfully drop Fujitsu’s new line of waterproof Android phones and tablets in the crapper without ruining them.
The Minimalist backpack. Super strong, super light, super compact and waterproof. It’s made of nonwoven Dyneema which is 10 times stronger than steel. Cool materials, but it’s a $US128 plastic bag! Uncomfortable enough that it should be recycled. In hell. [Outlier]
Ruggedising your personal electronics, especially waterproofing them, is a pain — typically either requiring you stuff it in a PVC bag or ensconce it in 2kg of silicone rubber. But, one day soon, our precious gadgets may come waterproofed on the molecular level.
Think of LuminAID as the TOMS shoes of… electricity. Each light is rugged, waterproof, solar-powered, inflatable (floating light!) and only $US25. But each purchase also nets a LuminAID for a needy stranger without electricity. Gadget awww.
Water and electronics are not good bedfellows, but a new silicon-based sprayable coating that makes gadgets completely waterproof has me even more excited for its other applications. Like making clothing impervious to food stains, as demonstrated in this video.
We loved our GoPro HD Hero. It was simply the sweetest wearable action camera we’d seen… until now. The brand spankin’ new Hero 2 isn’t dramatically different, they just made everything a lot better. I may never take it off.
Powertraveller sent me a PowerMonkey Extreme — basically another in their long line of solar-powered big batteries for portable gear — to test. So I decided to give it a quick drowning. Video after the jump.
