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! SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I watch Russell Davies blog for my interest in mobile technology and was pleased to see this little expedition of his. On his first (and la[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - I haven’t done one of these in a while so I’m going to start getting back to doing this regularly. I’m only going to do one this month but I think I’ll do them bi-monthly. In the mean time I’ve done this very large post of some o[...] Read More »

TGU Video. Press Play. LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - USA to Zurich, Zurich to London, next Ireland or Singapore…. who knows where this board will surface next!? Eitherway I enjoyed my first day of Longboarding today. Big thanks to Bustinboards.com for sending TGU a board for review (read[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Pat Phelan from Cork, Ireland, emailed me this morning to say MaxRoam is now live. This is a truly global project for all world travellers, backpackers & tourists! This is “The Sim That Doesn’t Know You’re Travelling”… MaxRoam lets y[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I bought myself a yellow/black Suunto Vector yesterday. Some of the features on the watch are great. Not that i know how to use it fully yet. It took me a while to figure out just how to set the correct time, but once i looked at the manual it was easily done̷[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - The Burton RED Tantrum G1 Bluetooth Audex ($200) is the updated model of the already super featured snowboard helmet from industry leaders Burton. This is a great way to stay connected and entertained while going down your favorite slopes by seamlessly connect[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) This is for Robin to show I made an effort with the geek stuff gadget/ technology items while he’s away ;-) I spotted it being promoted in one of the free newspapers yesterday and just wondered if anyone ever uses these “personal transportation devices[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The well-known ‘PC Magazine’ sent us a story by email today, to point out their article “10 Unsinkable Gadgets“. Summer is the season to enjoy the great outdoors. But, being outside comes with its fair share of trials–including protecting [...] Read More »

This model plane has been modified to become a drone aircraft running on autopilot with a Lego brain! LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Chris Anderson of The Long Tail fame has built a DIY Drone model plane controlled by Lego with his young son. It has Lego Technics cogs inside controlling the rudder[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Via Mobiles to Go I came across ‘Bones In Motion‘. It’s an application for on your mobile phone that hooks up with its internal GPS (or a bluetooth one, I suspect). While you’re out running, it will download maps on to your device and plo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Irish start up company TouristR.com has launched their beta in public. Sign up here. TouristR lets you share your travel experiences and travel tips with users, who then can create itinerary’s made form them. Congratulations to Wannita & Jan for getting this[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Who’ll be the first to make it to the North Pole on a Segway? Ok, granted you’ll need some whopping solar panels to re-charge, but it’s becoming a reality! Segway have launched an Offroad/Adventure Transporter version of their popular San Francisco sc[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A UK-based start-up has announced a sim card for mobile devices which incorporates a GPS receiver and antenna, allowing location capability to be added to the device by just changing the sim card. BlueSky Positioning said it has developed “patent-pending technolog[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here are some links I’ve been collecting during the week. All links are archived here. Reuters Video: Ed Hillary makes appeal to clean up Everest. Reuters Video: Extreme surfing, Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. Crunch Gear (TechCrunch) do a fitness tech kit [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Couple of links to keep you entertained. Washington Post have a good Antarctica website all about The Dry Desert. Nice photos. The Gear Junkie features the Hero 3 digital camera. Straps to your wrist. Looks great but poor res for 2007. My phone isn’t much bigger a[...] Read More »

Lifesize whale in flash from Get Outdoors Highest Cell Phone call in the world from Everest. (I don’t really see the point other than PR). Off-road Trailer for hummers. Mountaineering Council of Ireland have some job opportunities. Google Map markers make it into the real world! Wingsuit Base [...] Read More »