Three years survived the Camp II - Crank Lamp & Lantern from Silver Point - which we used every night in our Adventure Camp and on countless adventure trips. The Camp II resisted dozens of falls and bad weather. One time, it fell out of my pocket on a trip in the 'Sicilian Jungle.' It took us one week to find it - in which it also rained heavily - and we were really glad when we found the Camp II and it still worked flawlessly! Also, even after all these years, the battery still fits just as well as the first day. In most crank lamps the batteries go fast due to short charging intervals, but not with the Camp II  - a few turns are sufficient for several minutes of light, an hour to the mains (or in our case with our foldable solar module or notebook). It provides a few hours best service, both as a flashlight as well as a lantern, thanks to the refined drawer system. ...Even at night in the tent we find the lamp easily due to its clever light strip. This light strip-ring is flexible, yet strong: After really violent falls some anchorages got broken, but the strip held the lamp for a long time together.

 

The Camp II offers four different lighting options: two brightness levels (each optionaly as a concentrated beam of a flashlight with a long range or as a lantern with large scattering length) as well as an energy-economical, yet well visible red light (which we like to use on walks on the streets as a backlight) and a red light-SOS function (SOS in morse clock). Thanks to the rubber coating on the switch, it´s not only waterproof but also easy to feel in the dark. - Over the years, the exchange function was somewhat sluggish, but still better than to jump quickly, as we know it from other manufacturers.

You can charge The lamp easily using the included USB charging cable. The plug is a special size so take good care of the cable! - A standard size, such as in mobile phones these days are, would be desirable, but the Camp II is otherwise great, with its small size (handy pocket-size) and weight, performance and processing. - Even the steel Aufhängring  on the charging handle is extremely convenient.

Our conclusion: The Camp II is a very well thought out and really rugged outdoor suitable combination of torch and lantern. The crank holds in contrast to most crank lamps for long life. The price 25-30 € seems to us more than justified because of the functionality and quality.

 

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The Camp II is very versatile as a flashlight & lanterns combination, but in action on the road and outdoor you need both hands free, in this situations the Ranger Headlamp offers best services. Of course also the Ranger Line is waterproof and has different lighting options. The powerful LEDs provide up to 125 lumens - at a lower level a battery charge reaches up to 30 hours! And the icing on the cake The latest Ranger version is not only operated lossless with rechargeable batteries (which is very rare among the flashlights), it can also be loaded directly through a USB charging cable (with solar module, laptop, external battery ...) everywhere on the road, without extra charger - lightning & loading - easy & awesome!

 

Ingeniously simple are the small Micro solar-crank lights from Silverpoint. This little usefull tool you can have anywhere with you on a key ring, so you get always an emergency light - and not only this. The lamp is truly an ultra-lightweight at only 25 grams. This and their inconspicuous size do not suggest what makes the Micro for a good focal length! - This is ensured by two particularly strong LEDs. Thanks to the crank you need not to worry about the battery level - and if the Micro is placed in broad daylight outside it saves even cranking thanks to the solar cell.

 

With 145 lumens brighter than the Camp II, the strongest flashlight AND lantern * Hercules * really lights up everything! It also works very well on our Sicilian cart, when we are travelling around at dusk or even at night with our strong donkey Hercules. :-) The 'Hercules' lamp uses four AA batteries, which are already included. ...Hercules (the donkey) works fine with four carrots. :-) In both cases the the namesake should be proud. They are STRONG LIKE HERCULES! :-)

 

 

Furthermore, Silverpoint still offers practical little lights to attach wherever you need them. We use them on our journeys for our animals and carriage, and on children's clothing and equipment. With 60 lumens men, women, children and pets won't get lost, as they can be seen, even from a distance. These small Featherweight lights weigh only 40 grams and can save lives!
A handy carabiner is included.

 

 

 

From the rustic and adventurous to the beautiful and romantic,  these practical flints are just right for every occasion. For survivors and romantic campfire...

 

 

 

This is by far not all from Silverpoint. The whole series can be found directly on the manufacturer side:

 

  Ruggear - World´s most rugged smartphones - they are smart - but die hard

 

There are quite a few Outdoor phones on the market by now - some of them quite tough – but most of them limited in useful extras like a quality camera or comfortable internet browsing. Not only because of slow processors internet utilization and acces to apps are hardly possible. But now, finally there´s remedy. We were waiting for it for a long time: a really rugged Outdoor Smartphone, a Smartphone, which handles a intensive bath in water with the same ease as an drop out of up to 2 metres height. And even more, it stands temperatures from minus 20 (-4°F) to plus 60 degrees celsius (+140°F) and is absolutly dustproofed, perfectly suited for days at the beach as well as long and adventurous journeys. All these characteristics are bundled in the RugGear 700. The RG700 is unbeaten in its ruggedness and is the first Outdoor Smartphone with IP 68 certification – the highest existing degree of protection of enclosure. Furthermore, the RG700 fulfills the military standard 810 G, which is quite usefull for adventurous pacifists, too. :-) … Moreover, it meets asthetical requirements and, despite its extremly rugged safety shell, comes quite handy.

 

RG700


The 5.3“ RugDisplay, the 1 GHz Dual Core Processor and a 960 x 540 pixel resolution offer you an fast overview wherever you are and independent of weather conditions. Water, dust and even high variations in temperature won´t affect the performance of the RG700. Adding GPS for navigation, G-Sensor, compass, barometer and altimeter - getting lost is a problem of the past.

RG 700 in mud...RG700 in WaterRG700 in Action - Rug Display


Thanks to the 3 watt stereospeaker with a performance of 100 dB communication is possible in every situation. Additionally, the RG700 is equiped with radio and mp3-player and therefore provides the individual soundtrack for all of your adventures. 8 GB (upgradeable to 32 GB) internal memory make sure there´s room for plenty of them. The radio is suitable for weather forecast. And the easy and fast access to internet let you check urgent emails and provides important information in the world wide web.

 

 

RugGear RG700 Technical Features

Technical Features
Android™ 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
Bluetooth© 4.0
external memory microSD up to 32 GB
performance 3G (UMTS/HSPA), processor MT6577 (Dual Core 1 GHz),
internal memory 8 GB ROM and 1 GB RAM
size 155 x 82.9 x 15.55 mm,
weight: 245 g
2 cameras 8 MP rear camera and
2 MP front camera,
video recording with autofocus and 4x digital zoom
NFC Near Field Communication
frequencies Quad band SIM card 1: WCDMA/ HSPA 850/2100 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/ 1900 MHz

SIM card 2: GSM/GPRS/ EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
battery 2900 mAh battery, standby 450 hrs.
talktime 2G/3G 480 min./420 min.
Wi-Fi© IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
radio, MP3 player  
Dual SIM  
solutions It can be used with a push-to-talk, loneworker or NFC solution. You will be connected to your Rug Gear authorized solution partners.


Conclusion: The RugGear 700 is the ideal companion on journeys, adventures and in pioneer work or at construction sites, where it is rough going. The perfect rugged Smartphone for explorers and adventurer.


There are some waterproofed Smartphones on the market but most of them are only splash water proofed, which means they won´t endure a real bath or even a deeper dive. The RG700 stands out of these conventional Smartphones. It is made for going under water –a couple of metres deep and for up to half an hour. Moreover, you can shoot some nice under water pictures with the 8 megapixel camera.


The semi-rugged Smartphones of other producers better shouldn´t fall down neither. The RugGear 700 tolerates drops from up to 2 metres height. And if you don´t have a hammer by hand just take the RG700.


A detailed presentation – in Russian – however the video speaks for itself.


And that´s not all. RugGear offers floatable and even explosionproofed mobile phones for everyone.


Beside the RG 700, we are looking forward to the floatable RugGear 100. We will use both devices under rugged conditions and afterwards tell you how they perfomed.

 

Last but not least, some words about the Ruggear company:

Outdoor. Industry. Communication.

"We used our complete business experience and technical competence to create user-friendly and  up-to-date products which are reliable mobile companions that are now available for everyone!"
(Martin Haaf/CEO RugGear Europe GmbH)

Rugged mobile phones for outdoor use in industry, craft or leisure time are far more than a niche market. We operate from the RugGear Europe GmbH based in Lauda-Koenigshofen/Germany where we create high-quality products that are specially made for a lot of different outdoor/industrial activities and requirements (IP-68, MIL-STD 810, waterproof, etc.).

15 years of experience

The development team is led by Mr. Martin Haaf who has got more than 15 years of experience in the industry. With this competence, special mobile phones were developed for users working in industry, agriculture, service industries and craft.

At the same time our devices are also a high quality companion for people who love to spend their leisure time with outdoor activities like climbing, swimming, walking, biking, etc. The development is managed and controlled out of Germany and the phones are produced in China.

Current technical standards and solutions for Android, NFC and more

The RugGear Europe GmbH is – through their competence network – in continuous exchange with highly qualified companies of the mobile solution segment.
Requirements for more complex applications in the industry – for example with MDM, Push-to-Talk, MRM, Loneworker and NFC solutions – are incorporated into existing and new product development.

Intrinsically safe products – developed together with the company iSafe Mobile – fully complete the portfolio.

We are pleased to welcome you as our possible new customer.
Your team of the RugGear Europe GmbH/Germany

"*The Alchimist* from Paolo Coelho is one of the books that let your mind travel. - And because it is about a shepherd who really loves his sheep like any other soul and respects nature - which gives him a lot of positive spirit, to travel in order to find the treasure of his dreams... it became even my dream to spend some years in untouched nature, walking with sheep and then continue to travel throughout the world..." said Christian - and his dreams came true...

 

We walked long paths with hundreds of sheep - this experience eases your mind, slows down life and helps you to enjoy every single moment.

 

More about the travels soon.

 

If you want to read the book "The Alchimist" - the autor offers it with some other books for free!

Also highly recommended: "Manual of the Warrior of Light"

 

...Now back to the sheep:

 

In the sommer it´s really hot in Sicily, so in the end also the sheep are happy when they've got shorn...

sheep shearing

Don Giovanni Granata with the good old sheep shears...

 

 

sheep shearing

First the shorn sheep isn´t that happy...

sheep shearing

but then it laughes. :-)  Free and unencumbered...

 

On the Adventure Mountain in Sicily you can live with animals in a real social community.

On our sunny land they have plenty of space to graze.
So they keep our mountain clean and reduce the fire hazard.
Even the harvesting of our trees is much easier thanks to them.
Occasionally, we also travel with the sheep throughout the nature.

Here with us you can learn how to shear sheeps,
how to care for them, milk them, make cheese and much more.

From the new wool we win woolen threads with simple spinning spindles.
Tedious manual work - but with better results than any machine!
From this high-quality wool we produce our clothing.

 

There will be more information upcoming...

 

Be always up to date with Eco Adventure Org - on Twitter.

Green IT - from GREENHOST - clean energy for our environment and a green world

 

What is the ecological impact of shopping in the internet? Is the exchange of informations via the web a better and ecological more valuable option than the traditional way via printed material? Questions like these have to be asked by ecological aware people and unfortunately the answers to them aren´t that nice.
For any information shared on the Internet energy-intensive servers must be provided, usually even several times, due to the security of server failure. If you add the energy, which is necessary to direct informations from A to B, internet shopping and everyday web surfing come to a higher environmental impact than the entire air traffic worldwide!

This need not be. There are, among all the countless hosting providers, a few environmentally-conscious companies, which have their focus not only on particularly low power server (and by the way are up to date even to the latest technology - also in terms of server security and performance), but have a sensible energy balance over the entire operating process, offering car sharing for their team and using 100% renewable energy - wind, water and solar power. So it exists: the holistic environmentally conscious Internet provider.

Greenhost - professional "green it" Hosting.
The name speaks for itself. After a personal contact with the management team from Greenhost, we can proclaim with pride this professional Greenhost company as a new partner of Eco Adventure Org. On a good and environmentally conscious cooperation!

 
Great service!

Easily accessible.

Immediate Support.


 

 

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All good things come in threes,
or the best for last ...



As we founded the Eco Adventure Organisation in 2008 it quickly became clear as we spread our social projects best - through the Internet. A "simple modular system" from one of the largest hosters brought us quickly to the edge of despair - over the hole time we - as internet newbies - had repeatedly explain to the "professional support personnel" how the world wide web works. In addition, such a modular web system is far too limited for our needs. So we changed before the year was around from the boring modular website to the much more promising websites build system called Joomla! - And as the old hoster made even more problems with that, we changed also to a better hoster, a little one, but realy professional working.

From 2009 to 2014, five years, we were very pleased with the small Hoster we found about the Joomlaportal. The personal and competent service was excellent. However, with our growing demands such as HD movies and upcoming documentary series both on the Internet and on television - and thus to rapidly increasing numbers of visitors, the demand for server capacity and Hosting rose generally strong. This was too much of a good things for the small & fine hoster, so we started looking for a new partner.

It quickly became clear, an environmentally conscious Hoster it should be. Finally, we want to not only protect the environment but also promote environmental awareness among the youth and contribute a small part in the world for the future, so it is only logical that we also use the Internet with renewable energies. (On our Adventure Hill just with solar panels.) Greenhost was among all the "Green IT hosters" our top Favourit, not only because of the professionalism and international presence, but rather also from ecological aspects. - As said, the Internet has become an incredibly large power-hungry and thus already a worse environmental impact than the entire air traffic. - Not so with Greenhost - 100% green energy.

Green IT - from GREENHOST - clean energy for our environment and a green world.

 

Adventure is a path...

Adventure is a path...

Explore. Dream. Discover!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - By Mark Twain.

the world is a open book


The world is a book, and those who not travel read only a page.