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Admin New CookMug Lids

Quick update - new CookMug Lids are shipping on Monday and Tuesday next week, in time for Labor Day Weekend. Continue

Added by Admin on August 27, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

James Davies 20/20 Promotion

A couple of major engineering wins this week deserves

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Added by James Davies on August 27, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Kenny Dood Advanced First Aid Kit

A few weeks
ago James Davies asked me to assemble an Advanced First aid Kit. Here is what I came up with.
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Added by Kenny Dood on July 30, 2010 at 8:47am — 1 Comment

James Davies GearPods Frontier and Personalization

Well we picked the name GearPods Frontier for our new multi-kit system after a brief impromptu contest on FaceBook. In this last post about Frontier you'll find annotated photos of the system (full details are available here). We also wanted to talk about personalization.

It might seem like personalization and commercial survival kits in the same sentence is an oxymoron. How can you encourage persona
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Added by James Davies on June 15, 2010 at 10:16pm — No Comments

James Davies Extended Stay

Our new multi-kit system (MK-5, currently unnamed) due out later this week has a second theme: extended stay. We try to avoid putting numbers on our multi-kit systems, but if we did, GearPods Backcountry and GearPods Wilderness would probably fall into a 24-48 hour bracket. This new multi-kit system is more geared to 48-72 hours or even beyond. In our minds, this means adding a set of robust first-use tools (in particular for shelter construction and firewood gathering) and more consumables (sol… Continue

Added by James Davies on June 14, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments

James Davies Tight or Relaxed Fit?

Next week we're introducing a new as-yet-unnamed multi-kit system (see us on FaceBook for a naming contest). Aside from being our most comprehensive kit to date, it has a few themes to it. It's shown here in olive drab and digital camo.

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Added by James Davies on June 13, 2010 at 6:46pm — 1 Comment

Mark Barner New Gearpods.

Just got in my new shelter pro kit and new components. I really like the new thread system. Got it out of the box, tightened the threads and put underwater in the bath tub for two minutes. Then took it outside into the pouring rain for fifteen minutes. No leaks! Threads seem to work a lot better also. Really liked the look of the new sleeves.

The shelter pro kit was really packed solid. Didn't get a chance to take it outside yet... yes it was pouring and it has a poncho, but th

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Added by Mark Barner on May 21, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

James Davies New Retail Packaging

With our Spring 2010 products, we're going to start making products available to retail stores. Here's a sneak peak at some of the packaging coming to a store near you. Not all of our products will be available to retail stores initially but that will change over time.

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Added by James Davies on May 11, 2010 at 12:13pm — 1 Comment

James Davies New GearPods Connect Components

Now made in the USA, we've refreshed the GearPods Connect system components. There are two main changes. First we've introduced new colors for Terminators and Connectors. All new retail products will feature orange parts. The new colors are only available from GearPods direct for the time being. The new colors are more subdued - olive drab, coyote tan, and black. The second major change is the much-improved thread system. There is no chance of cross-threading these new units and the new Ter
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Added by James Davies on May 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

James Davies New Sleeves

We're now shipping the new GearPods Sleeves (previously known as Tubes). Sleeves are still available in two sizes: 9.5" (GearPods Backcountry size) and 14.0" (GearPods Wilderness size). And two colors - we updated the woodland camo with ACU digital camo as the second color option (in addition to black).

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Added by James Davies on May 11, 2010 at 11:53am — 1 Comment

James Davies New Survival Kits

Beginning next week, we're shipping the next version of our survival kit available as GearPods Survival and GearPods Survival Pro (was called Survival CS). We have made many changes and improvements to the survival kits based on customer feedback and the benefits of starting to scale production (allowing us to source better components). On our we… Continue

Added by James Davies on May 5, 2010 at 9:11am — 2 Comments

James Davies New Stove System

Our 2009 products included an emergency-use stove - the Hexagon Stove - that burns solid fuel tablets. We received a lot of feedback on the stove, mostly requests to make the stove more robust (for "first use" and not just "last-ditch" use) and more efficient. We went back to the drawing board (well, CAD software) and the result is the brand new 2010 GearPods Stove System (pictured below with the burner).

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Added by James Davies on May 4, 2010 at 7:55pm — 4 Comments

James Davies New Shelter Kits

We're slowly but surely rolling out our Spring 2010 products that will start shipping next week. It's exciting to see it all come together! This is the first of several updates explaining all the changes you can expect to see in the next week!

The first products we refreshed are the GearPods Shelter kit and GearPods Shelter Pro
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Added by James Davies on May 4, 2010 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments

James Davies New Product - GearPods® Paracord

We introduced a new kit today - GearPods® Paracord. This multi-purpose kit makes it easy to add robust rigging capabilities to your adventure gear, supporting endless rigging applications including erecting shelters and tarps.

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Added by James Davies on February 3, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

James Davies Night in the Desert with GearPods Wilderness (Two-Part Video)

Many thanks to Arizona Bushman, John Campbell, for taking GearPods Wilderness out into the middle of the desert for a night out. John took a video camera and recorded the night. The result is two great videos. Here' the first part: Not only is this a great review for Wilderness but the videos are really exception IMO. It's a great watch! Thanks again John! Continue

Added by James Davies on January 13, 2010 at 2:46pm — 1 Comment

James Davies GearPods Backcountry Review (TripleBlaze, January 6 2010)

"The Backcountry GearPods kit is packed with enough survival gear to sustain any adventurer for days in the wild and features items in the following categories: first-aid, basic survival, and even cooking. We’ve seen plenty of compact and portable first-aid kits but the Backcountry takes things to an entirely different level .... Beyond being insanely useful, GearPods are simply beautiful. From the iconography to the tight and neat packaging you can see that a lot of thought went into creating e… Continue

Added by James Davies on January 7, 2010 at 2:54pm — No Comments

James Davies Happy New Year!

Video Contest Results Congratulations to Mark Barner and Zeb Barber for sharing first place in our video contest! We couldn't decide between them (and alphabetical order clearly wasn't going to work with the monopoly on "B") so we're splitting the first prize - gift certificates for $125 for each of you are on their way. We appreciate the time you both put into making these videos. It's great to see the product in action - everyone learns a lot. January Promotion - Save 10% To c… Continue

Added by James Davies on January 2, 2010 at 12:07pm — 1 Comment

Mark Barner GearPod Starter kit 3 review video.

I took my two "Gearpods Starter kit 3" out to a local park so I could show a friend about them. We decided to do a review of them and post some videos of it. Chris and I had a great time doing the review. So I hope you enjoy them. Part 1: Part 2:… Continue

Added by Mark Barner on December 28, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Mark Barner Attaching GearPods to my Camelbak HAWG.

Last night I spent several hours selecting and packing my two “gearpods starter kit 3”. I attached both of them to each side of my Camelbak HAWG. I was really surprised how much room it freed up in my pack. The Gearpods units really help organize items.

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Added by Mark Barner on December 24, 2009 at 10:36am — No Comments

Mark Barner What I got! What next?

Well I got my order yesterday after the FedEx truck got stuck in a snow storm for two days. I purchased two "GearPods® Connect Starter Kit 3", one "GearPods® Stove" and one "GearPods® CookMug".Last night I spent several hours seeing what will fit in the various units. In the next week or two, I plan on testing the GearPods® kits out around my home before taking it out on a hike. Tonight I did some testing of the "GearPods® Connect Starter Kit 3”. I did two different water tests tonight, one in… Continue

Added by Mark Barner on December 22, 2009 at 7:45pm — 1 Comment

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