Heimplanet’s no-pole tent is on the cusp of release, and this video makes the stickless tent look very tempting indeed.
The tent, called the Cave, replaces poles with air-filled tubes. These are arranged in a pattern of pentagons and triangles and form an exoskeleton from which the tent’s shell can hang. Once pumped up, these tubes become rigid and also seal themselves off into separate sections, limiting damage if one tube should suffer a puncture. The dome is big enough to sleep three, or seat six.
But, as Core77 writer Hipstomp points out, any weight saved by leaving out the poles will be offset by the need to carry a pump. Worse, lightweight poles are easy to stow, taking up almost no space when strapped to a backpack. And this assumes that the double-walled tubes and the accompanying tent-sheets will be less bulky and lighter than a regular tent to begin with.
So far, there are no details on price, and the product site just says that the Cave is “coming Feb 2011.” That should be when we find out how much this thing weighs, and just how big it is when packed away.
Cave product page [Hipstomp via Core77]
See Also:
- Two-Man 'Adventure' Tent has Parking Garage
- Ultra-Light DIY Tent-Pole Flash-Stands
- Self Pitching Tent
- Camping
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