It looks like some form of restraint but the Pretzel Pillow is designed to offer comfortable sleep while sitting. It supports your head, neck and arms. Think airline seat where access to the armrest is nonexistent thanks to your rotund seat mate.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/1377148211/pretzel-pillow-fall-asleep-in-any-seat
BioLite has introduced a new technology to Kickstarter called the BaseLantern.
The BaseLantern is four times smaller than competitive lights yet incorporates bluetooth control and analytics high are used to create a miniature smartgrid built for outdoor environments. BioLite offers several different lighting options that can all connected.
BioLite also introduced a new technology to their devices called Edge-Lighting. It’s the same principle found in fiber optics which enables them to wrap their lenses tightly around the battery and LEDs, getting rid of the cavernous spaces typically found in lanterns.
Here are some features of this smartgrid.
1) Proximity Activation: The BaseLantern can geolocate to users and automatically turn itself off or on based on your relative proximity. It’s your very own beacon, clutch for hiking back to camp late-night.
2) Energy Feedback: When you’re outdoors and away from an outlet, managing your battery life is critical. The App gives you runtime right down to the minute and calibrates in real-time according to brightness settings and if you’re charging any external devices. No guess how much juice is left and you can optimize burntimes to last the length of your trip.
3) Color Spectrum Control: You can adjust the warmth of your light for task or ambience settings, turn it to red for night vision, or cycle through full colors if you’re looking to have a little fun. It all happens from an intuitive dial display that requires no learning curve.
4) Light Extension: The BaseLantern can integrate with BioLite SiteLights, compact string-lighting, and create an even wider perimeter of light, lighting large communal areas or utilizing a hub-and-spoke setup to light individual sites.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/biolite/biolite-baselantern-smartgrid-goes-off-grid
What’s Gelände Quaffing you might ask? Well, it’s the awesomest beer drinking competition ever and finds its roots in the downhill ski community.
In 1986, the skis were skinny and the snow was fat, during a 14 foot storm, the infamous underground crew of the Jackson Hole Air Force was going stir crazy in the Bear Claw Café, waiting for the mountain to open. In those days the bartender would send a freshly filled beer mug sliding down the bar to the patron who ordered it. One fateful night a beer mug slid off the end of the bar, took air, was caught seconds before a glass shattering catastrophe, and promptly pounded. Gelände Quaffing was born. Apres’ ski competitions followed, testing the unique skills of all who entered, and provided exciting entertainment for all spectators. But somewhere along the way Gelände Quaffing was lost and the après ski spirit forgotten.
It’s quite a sight. Teams often costumed run from one end of the bar to the other and by the end of the night, they are feeling no pain. As in years past, this grudge match is also a fundraiser. Along with a silent auction, they raise some great coin for the All In, All The Time Foundation.
See you there!
This is the FAST MT Helmet worn by actor Joel Edgerton in the American action thriller “Zero Dark Thirty”. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS AUCTION WILL BENEFIT THE SEMPER FI FUND. Buyer will receive Certificate of Authenticity with their helmet purchase.
To bid on the one-of-kind item, visit www.ebay.com.
Who is coming to the Beach for Lendys famous wings? Next weekend is the 7th annual Wings for Warriors fundraiser on Saturday may 7th, 2016 at LENDYS CAFÉ & RAW BAR, 1581 General Booth Blvd, VA Beach, VA 23454.
Family Friendly
12 – 4 pm
$25 at the door
AYCE wings , beer , raffles and silent auctions !!!
This is a fundraiser for the ALL IN ALL THE TIME FOUNDATION
Tickets also available online at :
www.aiatt.org
It’s pretty simple. Visit Stumpies Custom Guns, purchase a coin, and enter for your chance to win “The Dude”.
So what’s “The Dude” anyway?
-Stumpies Custom Guns “The Dude” chambered in .308 WIN, fluted Bartlein 11.25 twist M40 contoured barrel w/AAC MK 13, custom mixed KG Gun Kote finish
-Manners adjustable carbon fiber MCS-T4A stock
-Timney Trigger
-American Precision Arms RTG/SA bottom metal
-B&T Atlas Bipod
-Leupold MK 6
-Adams Industries Legionnaire clip on night vision device.
-U.S. Tactical Manfroto Tripod, HOG Saddle & One Shot Kit
-Benchmade Bushcrafter/EOD Knife
-Pelican 1750 Hard case
-ECS Rolling Weapons Case
-Tactical Tailor Drag Bag
-Magpul Data Book
Total Package Value= OVER $14,000
100% of ALL proceeds will be donated to the EOD Warrior Foundation.
www.stumpiescustomguns.com/the-dude-rifle-raffle
Payson, AZ – Advanced Tactical Armament Concepts, LLC (ATAC), manufacturer of HPR Ammunition, reveals the donation of the customized HPR Black Ops Jeep Wrangler “Freedom Vehicle” to the NRA. The rugged 2014 Jeep Wrangler that has traveled the U.S. with HPR’s Mobile Command Center is now up for auction on GunBroker.com until May 22nd. Not only is this an amazing opportunity for the buyer, but proceeds raised from this auction will go directly to the NRA foundation.
“ATAC knew how important 2016 was going to be for all of us politically and we knew donations and member support was more important than ever to assure our second amendment rights going forward” states Jim Antich, Founder & Managing Member. “This is why ATAC has presented the NRA with this One of a Kind Freedom Vehicle to help raise funding for our future.”
The Black Ops Freedom Vehicle is a tactical muscle machine with the following Specifications:
· TeraFlex suspension with Custom Coilover conversion
· Fox Shocks
· Smittybilt XRC Armor side panels with custom Diamond plate blast protection
· Six Rigid industry light bars
· Custom “one of a kind” tailgate
· Katskin Leather embroidered seats
· Undercarriage LED lights
· Bulldog 8k Winch and Front Bumper
· AR-15 Roll Cage Gun Mounts
· Wild Boar Innovations Tactical Slant back hardtop
· 40 inch tires/ 24 inch wheels
· Custom internal roll cage
· 3.6 liter Penstar V6 packed with 265 Horsepower and 260 lb-ft torque.
All customization was performed by the experienced professionals at Cutting Edge 4×4 in Phoenix, AZ. Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to become the owner of this incredible Black Ops Freedom Vehicle. Go bid now on this live auction on GunBroker.com.
Brandon Jackson was a brother to those who knew him. Tragically, he perished in a BASE jumping accident earlier this month. This is his daughter. Friends and family have banded together to make sure she gets a college education. Please consider supporting this cause.
www.youcaring.com/family-of-brandon-jackson-557159
Brandon “Action” Jackson – a highly decorated retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant, loving father, brother, son, friend, adventurer, and the closest many of us will come to knowing a real life action hero – passed away at the early age of 37 on March 31, 2016. He leaves behind a loving family and a young 2-year-old daughter. We are creating this page to help his family that is spread out all over the country get to the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery and to create an education fund to pass along to his young daughter.
Brandon was an 18 year veteran of the US Army. Even at a very young age he knew that a life of service was his calling and from that moment on he lived and breathed all things Army. As soon as he graduated from high school in Detroit he joined the Army and quickly raised through the ranks joining the Rangers and Joint Special Operations Command, inspiring and motivating everyone who knew him. He is the recipient of the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal w/ Valor, and Purple Heart, among others.
Brandon loved his friends and family deeply and was absolutely enamored with his amazingly bright daughter. He was an inspiration to all who knew him as he lived every single day to the fullest. An avid adventurer, it seemed there was nothing Brandon couldn’t do as he excelled in everything from rock climbing to mountaineering to alpine sports to BASE jumping.
(This fund was created by Cameron Freeman – Brandon’s cousin. All funds will go towards Brandon’s daughter’s education and to help with the family’s cost of travel for the funeral.)
