Team Geared Up » headlamp http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com talking about outdoor adventure... Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © robin@bytesurgery.com () robin@bytesurgery.com() 1440 talking about outdoor adventure... robin@bytesurgery.com No no http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/a7d06df132db6001b6053c87a6356197/487cc283/bytesurgery/images/tgu.jpg Team Geared Up http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com 144 144 TGU Gear Review: Princeton Tec Fuel Headlamp http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/04/princetontec.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/04/princetontec.html#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:03 +0000 Aisling Coppinger http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/04/princetontec.html Princeton Tec FUEL Headlamp

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Fuel headlamp Princeton Tec sent TGU to review has become my new favourite piece of kit!!

I’m not quite up to making light graffiti but the Princeton Tec FUEL Headlamp has been stuck to my head for my last few Wednesday Night Runs.

It’s very tiny and light (also important if YOU are tiny and light ;-) ), so tiny that I was a little afraid of how robust it would be. I have a habit of carrying my headtorch for a while and dropping it a lot but this thing took some punishment. Firstly it throws off a big wide beam, it pivots really nicely on one side only and the button is easy to push. Sounds basic but I have torches that don’t!

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The little plastic adjuster at the side is also the clip to remove the battery cover! Clever or what!? I really like the idea that the torch part can be removed and can be clipped onto a jacket. Other good uses for a headlamp: heading down the bottom of your garden at night to the compost bins, yeah I know, adventurous or what?

Currently it’s cable-tied to my mountain biking helmet!

-Aisling-

Disclosure: The Fuel headlamp was sent to TGU as a review unit by Princeton Tec. Thanks Princeton!

(Image Credit: Princeton Tec Fuel headlamp attached to the authors helmet.)

]]> http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/04/princetontec.html/feed Techie Tuesday: Particles and Waves http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/03/techie-tuesday-particles-and-waves.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/03/techie-tuesday-particles-and-waves.html#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:30:13 +0000 Alx Cahiz http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/03/techie-tuesday-particles-and-waves.html micro LED
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - When you are packing a bag for an extended outdoor trip what is one of the main things you remember to bring? A flashlight. And when does that flashlight suddenly run out of juice? Exactly when you need it most! So how would you like to have a flashlight that lasts pretty much your entire lifetime without ever needing to be recharged? Sounds like a fairytale? Well it may not be. Newly developed micro LEDs will last up to 80 years on a single charge!!! William Henry is applications specialist at Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute who is the brains behind the project. One of the researchers on the project had one running constantly for two-and-a-half years on his desk. Now this is still a ways away from consumer level application and larger hand/head torch level lights would last only 5 years on one charge but the technology does exist. If this were applied to home lighting you could say goodbye to more than half of your electrical bill right there! via New Launches

wave powered boat
Next up we have a Japanese inventor who found a way to use the raw kinetic energy of the ocean to to provide means of powering a boat. Yutaka Terao has developed the latest in a long running series of vessels that use the eco friendly propulsion of waves.

The Suntory Mermaid II uses a pair of movable fins mounted under the bow to generate forward propulsion using dolphin like kicks. While the maximum speed is a modest 5 knots, this shouldn’t bother the Mermaid II’s 69 year old skipper Kenichi Horie, as he attempts to sail 4,350 miles from Hawaii to Japan later this month. Let’s just hope that he remembers to turn off the left turn signal after pulling out of port.

Although the vessel isn’t breaking any speed records having this system equipped on a boat with an engine or sail could be handy if they main method of propusion is somehow damaged or lost. It would be interesting if this could also be applied to large scale vessels like yachts or even tankers. via Treehugger

-Alx-

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SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I got an email today from Princeton Tec. It has the look of a mass-mail (It was a direct mail), but I figured it’s worth posting as it’s a cool advertisement for their new Headlamp the FUEL. They have a blog at LivingOnTheDash.com.

Hi guys,

Love the blog… we (Princeton Tec and our friends) had some fun with a lite graffiti video for our little FUEL headlamp. Really – just thought you guys might get a kick out of it…

Anyway – keep up the good work.

Thank – Gerard

How’d they do that with just their headlamp?

“The method used is known as light grafitti. It’s basically stop motion animation using flashlights, headlamps, a still camera, a camera flash, and some extremely patient friends. To say it’s time consuming is an understatement.”

Bascially, long exposures and individual shots peiced together to get to the end result - really - pretty amazing stuff.

Princeton - send us over a ‘Princeton Tec FUEL’ headlamp and we’ll get a review up.

-Robin-

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