The adventure is on! This year, the GearJunkie crew heads “off the map” to iconic outdoor destinations around North America. Follow us on an exclusive five-part video series that starts today.
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Launch! ‘Off The Map’ Video Series
Launch! ‘Off The Map’ Video Series
April 16, 2012 By
The perfect pint and the photodiode: What do they have in common?
April 16, 2012 By
A blog post from Image Sensors World brings our attention to an interesting slideshow from Dr. Joachim Linkemann, Senior Product Manager at Basler AG. Basler produces industrial and network cameras for everything from food inspection to casino video surveillance, and so Dr.
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The perfect pint and the photodiode: What do they have in common?
Swanky Vibram ‘Barefoot Boutique’ to open in Boston
April 13, 2012 By
Vibram’s ubiquitous FiveFingers “foot gloves” have sold like mad in recent years.
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Swanky Vibram ‘Barefoot Boutique’ to open in Boston
Bike Uses Ball Bearings, Not Gears, To Shift
April 13, 2012 By
Look ma, no gears! The shifting on this city bike does not involve traditional gears.
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Bike Uses Ball Bearings, Not Gears, To Shift
High Vis: Bike Bags Glow In The Dark
April 10, 2012 By
In an effort to make cyclists more visible when riding at night, San Francisco’s Rickshaw Bagworks has a new messenger bag that literally glows. The bag’s outer fabric employs millions of embedded microscopic glass beads to bounce light.
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High Vis: Bike Bags Glow In The Dark
Video looks at ‘Cold, Exhausted, Remote, Serious Moments’ in Patagonia Race
April 9, 2012 By
Our new video, culled from clips taken by the GearJunkie/YogaSlackers race team in remote Chile during this past winter’s Patagonian Expedition Race, gives a glimpse into what adventure is and what it can mean at its deep, mysterious, sometimes painful core.
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Video looks at ‘Cold, Exhausted, Remote, Serious Moments’ in Patagonia Race
Source for Olympus E-M5 viewfinder revealed
April 5, 2012 By
Last February, Olympus announced its first OM-D series Micro Four Thirds camera, the Olympus E-M5 . Like the PEN-series cameras before it, the retro-styled Olympus M5 draws a parallel with an iconic product line from the company’s history: the film-based OM-series cameras.
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Source for Olympus E-M5 viewfinder revealed
Atmel’s XSense promises curvy touchscreens that’ll ruin your shirt line (video)
April 5, 2012 By
Touchscreen gurus Atmel may not be the most famous name around, but you’ll find its gear inside devices like the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab . Now it has pulled the dust-sheets from the latest innovation to emerge from its Californian headquarters: XSense. It’s a flexible, super-thin, film-based touch sensor that can be curved and contorted any which way you choose while retaining accuracy.
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Atmel’s XSense promises curvy touchscreens that’ll ruin your shirt line (video)
Team Tests Kit of Gear in Patagonia’s ‘Last Wild Race’
April 3, 2012 By
Racing in the wilds of Chile earlier this year, it took our four-person Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers a total of 262 hours to make the podium for a 3rd-place finish. This is a look at the equipment that helped along the way.
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Team Tests Kit of Gear in Patagonia’s ‘Last Wild Race’
Epic Award ‘Trophy’ Axes
March 27, 2012 By
Mountain axes from Black Diamond Equipment and the paintbrush of a local artist were the necessary pieces to put together a set of wall-mountable trophies made for our new EPIC Award project.
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Epic Award ‘Trophy’ Axes
