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  • Best Glastonbury Festival gear 2011. Camping, Glastonbury, Features, Torches, Tents, Sleeping bags, Rucksacks, Mophie Juice Pack Plus, Freeloader, AeroPress Coffee Maker 0

    Best Glastonbury Festival gear 2011

    FEATURE or for any other UK festival for that matter 17 June 2011 16:10 GMT

    It's not long now until Glastonbury kicks off and with it a summer full of festivals. You've bought your tickets, you've cadged yourself a lift but what you could always do with is that little bit of extra kit to keep you comfortable in...

  • VW Camper camping, but not as you know it. Camping, Camping equipment, Tents, Volkswagen, VW Camper, Firebox 0

    VW Camper camping, but not as you know it

    Best. Tent. Ever 13 May 2011 15:58 GMT

    Festival season is fast approaching (or has already approached if you're a fan of new music) and unless you've managed to nab yourself some campervan tickets already, chances are you're gonna be slumming it in a field, in your tent, with a load of...

  • Vertical urban camping - ideal for iPhone 5 queues

    Vertical urban camping - ideal for iPhone 5 queues

    Toilet facilities not provided 28 March 2011 13:27 GMT

    Having been caught up in the UK iPad 2 online ordering debacle, Pocket-lint wonders if it would be better to brave the queues for the next Apple launch - most likely for the iPhone 5. However, the thought of sleeping on a grubby London street, probably...

  • Best camping gadgets for the great outdoors

    Best camping gadgets for the great outdoors

    Pocket-lint goes camping to find out what you should pack 30 August 2010 21:59 GMT

    It's the final week of the school summer holidays. And, with the weather predicting to warm up (and, more importantly, dry-up) over the coming days, what better time than to pack up the car, chuck the kids in the back and motor off to a campsite to...

  • Great Sleeping Bear sleeping bag lets you become a Grizzly

    Great Sleeping Bear sleeping bag lets you become a Grizzly

    All that's missing is the pot of honey 1 March 2010 11:55 GMT

    We've seen the Tauntaun sleeping bag for kids, but one designer based in Amsterdam has gone one step further and created the "Great Sleeping Bear" sleeping bag.

    Unfortunately it doesn't look like it's going on sale any time soon, but made from...

  • Image Credit: Corbis

    BT installs Wi-Fi at campsites

    Usable free by BT Broadband customers 12 August 2009 10:18 GMT

    BT has announced that it's going to be installing Wi-Fi across a number of traditional British holiday destinations in a partnership with Wicom. 77 Camping and Caravanning Club sites, three Pontin's holiday parks and a number of Coastfields' Leisure sites...

  • Selk Bag; the sleeping bag you can walk in. Sports Fitness, Camping, Camping equipment, IWOOT 0

    Selk Bag; the sleeping bag you can walk in

    Will keep you warm, but makes you look like the Michelin man 26 September 2007 16:34 GMT

    Sleeping bags are great, but they aren't once you've got snuggled in and then realise that you've got to get out of it again, that is until the Selk Bag was invented.

    In what has to be the craziest looking sleeping bag of all time, the Selk...

  • Eco-friendly tent you can leave behind will be ready for festivals next year . Gadgets, Camping, Tents, Eco, Myhab 0

    Eco-friendly tent you can leave behind will be ready for festivals next year

    Hopes to stop the 15,000 abandoned tents sitch from Glasto 07 9 July 2007 13:31 GMT

    There were 15,000 tents left standing at Glastonbury this year - the above average increase thought to be fed-up festival goers not wanting to pack up and cart home their soggy, muddy tents.

    The issue of waste is a major concern for festival...

  • A car tent for urban camping? . Gadgets, Camping, Photos 0

    A car tent for urban camping?

    Tent designed to look like a car cover 26 June 2007 10:09 GMT

    These pics show a tent that has been designed to look like a car cover, so presumably you can indulge in a bit of urban camping. As long as you're prepared to pay the no doubt outrageous city parking fees.

    We would expect a few safety issues...

  • Grilliput: the tiniest portable barbecue . Sports Fitness, Camping, Grilliput, Adidas 0

    Grilliput: the tiniest portable barbecue

    Fancy a barbie? 21 June 2007 11:11 GMT

    Designed for backpackers and travellers, the Grilliput is less than half as wide as the inside of a kitchen roll at 2.2cm and 29cm long yet expands to offer a grilling area of 23 x 26cm. Resilient, the stainless steel “wand” weighs just 560 grams.

  • Ajungilak’s revolutionary Airbed. Sports Fitness, Camping, Ajungilak, Belkin, Nike 0

    Ajungilak’s revolutionary Airbed

    65% smaller pack 20 June 2007 21:59 GMT

    Ajungilak’s D-Lux Pump Mat is sumptuously comfortable thanks to insulation and air; it is more packable than others in its class and, thanks to its uniquely placed footpump, eliminates the need for any "oral blowing" of air.

    Uniquely, a foot-pump...

  • Blacks Crux Constellation II Tent. Sports Fitness, Camping, Tents, Blacks 0

    Blacks Crux Constellation II Tent review

    4.0 REVIEW Will this show you the stars? 3 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    With the summer almost upon us, its camping time, and Blacks have launched a series of tents with a built-in lighting system.

    The days of digging around for your lost shoe in the dark are long gone - supposedly. We go away for the weekend...

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    Blacks Constellation tent range with LED lights

    And a whole lot more 12 March 2007 20:49 GMT

    Blacks have teamed up with HealthGuard on an exciting new range of Constellation tents. The diverse range of seven tents are great whether you’re on a two man trek, or part of a bigger group looking for a base camp.

    All tents within the...

  • Cocoon Ripstop Silk Travel Sheet makes for impromptu bed. Sports Fitness, Camping, Cocoon, Gadgets 0

    Cocoon Ripstop Silk Travel Sheet makes for impromptu bed

    Silky Comfort 12 March 2007 14:02 GMT

    If you don't like to be a burden when you go around your mates house then perhaps the Cocoon Ripstop Silk Travel Sheet is for you.

    The double bed (86 x 35 inches) sized silk sheets promise to give you a comfortable sleep sack wherever you...

  • R and R Sleeping Bag from Vango charges your mobile while you snooze. Gadgets, Camping, Vango, Sleeping bags, Batteries 0

    R and R Sleeping Bag from Vango charges your mobile while you snooze

    Included battery pack ensures you never lose touch 10 August 2006 15:29 GMT

    Outdoor equipment maker Vango and Virgin Mobile have teamed up to bring weary festival-goers the R&R Sleeping bag.

    The Rest & Recharge Sleeping bag functions not only as your traditional pocket of warmth on cold and muddy British summer nights,...

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