Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!Digital Tech News: High-tech and Gadgets Help Katrina Rescue Efforts: “Cutting-edge high-tech and search-and-rescue tools and gadgets are to be used to help the re[...] Read More »

It’s scenes from like the Asian Tsunami in January. Btu this time, the water levels arn’t dropping quickly. While deaths are minimal in comparison, something tells me there won’t be such a world wide funding campaign for the U.S., more so a message to re-allot their billion dollar[...] Read More »

TechCamp is beginning to make waves in the papers. Good stuff! Below are two articles… In BizPlus.ie Magazine 29/08/05: TechCamp, Ireland’s first self-organising tech business conference, will take place on Saturday, October 15, in the Northside Civic Centre, Co Dublinclick here… T[...] Read More »

I never knew this, but eight pools in the UK have electronic lifeguards. The Poseidon system, which uses a matrix of underwater and overhead cameras that work by watching the depths of pools. I presume it works by sensing a motionless object as a certain depth for a certain length of time. Cool! On[...] Read More »

There’s a host of people looking for the Google Earth New Orleans flooding overlays after Hurricane Katrina. You can find them on the Google Earth BBS at that link. Click the “Open this Placemark” link at the top of each post to open the KMZ in Google Earth. If you don’t have[...] Read More »

Wow, look at this… it’s the Eye of Hurricane Katrina seen from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft. Image taken on August 28, 2005, before the storm made landfall.(Courtesy NOAA) I found it on Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia. Worth a read I may add. [...] Read More »

PIC Originally uploaded by lumis. Flickr as always is a great resource for seeing a non-media-influenced view of people’s experiences. Check out this guys back yard! There are some stunning photos of New Orleans completely covered up to roof tops. There is a CNN reporter Miles O’[...] Read More »

A team from Google competed in the largest really in the world (not the longest) on the weekend. Their account of it has been posted on the Google Blog. The Hood to Coast race sees 1000 teams start at the summit of Mt Hoods and race to the coast of Oregon (circa 200 miles). It appears people run in[...] Read More »

This is a nice little site Rack Simulator, that lets you add all the components of your Climbing Rack to your profile and then it analysises them to see where your main protection (in crack size) lies. It also appears to cost it for you, and addthe weights up of all the items. Nice. RackSimulator.co[...] Read More »

The Moovie car.: “The main idea behind this project was to create a small 2 seated city car powered by electric power. What shaped the visual look on the vehicle was the two big electric wheels with hollow rim, these wheels are hollow in the middle, this is where the doors of the car are loca[...] Read More »

So what I want to know is… If it needs bright light, how good is the screen in bright light. I know I can’t use my laptop outside if it’s bright enough to use a solar charger. But then again, you don’t have to use it while connected to the charger. I4U News - Solar Charger fo[...] Read More »

What I want to know is weight. As this deivce could be seriously useful for long term periods away from electricity sources in the hills. My phone battery is always dying on me by the end of a 3 day trip, especially if it’s cold, it can be gone on the first night with some heavy usage. Also, [...] Read More »

honey… let’s use those urine batteries | Travel Gadgets | Travelizmo: “Seems researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have created a disposable, credit card sized battery to be used as a power source for medical test kits. The idea surfaced wh[...] Read More »

my local butcher’s sign Originally uploaded by ratterrell. Well, I read the sad news that 50 lie dead this morning after Hurricane Katrina. Where do we go these days for live scene photography? Flickr of course… I don’t understand why they built this area up in SE N.America! Al[...] Read More »

As you all know, I’m a big fan of my new Petzl Myo XP. Well, I came accross the Petzl Tikka XP today on a Blog I was featured on… “The Mountain Gear Blog”. I’d be interested to see this yoke go, looks like a budget version of the Myo XP, which could be great as we all [...] Read More »

Are you ready for Episode 2? I’m a bit more awake for this one! Episode 2 Can be downloaded from…http://www.switchpod.com/users/r1g2b3/gearedup2.mp3 [...] Read More »