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! DUBLIN, IRELAND(Geared Up Blog) - Rock and Run are selling the Rab Summit Storm for £125 as opposed to £250. I’m very very tempted. And it was available still i[...] Read More »

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[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Today, AlpineKit launched Jamalots® to offer a new breed of ultra passive protection using the latest in spacer block technology. For years companies have been short-sighted in looking at the aerospace and space technologies to provide solutions whilst ignoring technol[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Not just for the fishermen among us (yawn), I would imagine that this would be ideally suited to photography too! This is the only kayak available that uses a patented extendable outrigger system to stabilize the craft, enabling outdoor enthusiasts to fish from a standi[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - You can keep your MacBook Air! Spotted on the Adventure Blog during the week, the Roper Mobile Duros 8.4in Rugged PC is unreal. I really do want one for Christmas, although I expect the price tag is just as unreal. Equipped with an 8.4-inch brilliant sunlight viewable, [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - This has to be the best, strongest, toughest bag on the market. It’s absolutely super for travel converting between a massive chasm of space down to a compressed pack suitable for hand luggage on a flight. Pictured above is my grey 140L duffel strapped to the back[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Forgive me if this looks slightly off-topic for us but really….it’s a sleeping bag! A sleeping bag you can walk round in and it’s called Selk’Bag. (It reminded me of this!) If you’re wondering where the name Selk’bag comes from i[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Conrad from Malhalo emailed me about their feature on UNICAT offroad campers. I’ve driven in a UNIMOG before in NZ, but not the bigger UNICAT expedition vehicle. I’m serious, if I had the money, I’d so own one of these. At $600,000 starting price[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I couldn’t find one in pink but if you’re in the market for a sleeping bag then take a look at PHD Designs where you can design your own! What a great idea. You design your bag based on lots of different criteria including weight, temperature required, c[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Via Springwise a HUD (Heads Up Display) for car GPS units that draws the line of where to drive on your windscreen. It’s called Virtual Cable. The makers of Virtual Cable say they have a better solution. The New York City area start-up has designed a heads-up dash[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Check out YouBar. They offer custom energy bars. Their Build-A-Bar page lets you pick the ingredients you want mixed and packaged for you. You get a couple of multi-choice options for each one of these categories for true personalisation & tastes. Base: Protein Pow[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Today myself and Eoin are launching FindMeAPack.com, a site enabling you to find your perfect rucksack. Eoin has now added 177 packs to the searchable database. Good man! This site joins the FMA family now consisting of FindMeATent.com, FindMeACamper.com New Zealand, F[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE - Picked up on Springwise, Nvohk is a clothing company managed by the people who wear it. Here’s how it works… Sign up for US$50 and own a part (a 1/20,000th) of an outdoor clothing (surf) brand. # 35% of net profits are distributed to members via “reward points”[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Eoin & myself took my London flatmate out for a jaunt in Wicklow (Ireland) 3 weeks ago to give him a first taste of the mountains. We also took the opportunity to wind-test the Mountain 25 by The North Face. This tent has been everywhere with me, but not out of pl[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Water-Buoy, a flotation device for your keys has appeared on Springwise, one of my favourite sites for ideas. As featured on BBC’s Dragons’ Den last night, young entrepreneur James Halliburton is bringing an innovative solution to market for boater[...] Read More »

Decent (enough) wide angle, sturdy and most importantly…….image stabilized for getting those sport shots :) Review of Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 Image Stabilized USM SLR LensRated as 4/5 on Nov 18 2007 by Neal McQuaid continuing on from last week’s review of the Canon EOS Rebel[...] Read More »