Gadgetory

hi my name is McHale mercury if I'm a small-time gear designer and inventor best known for the EM Berlin stove but today I want to introduce you to the world's first production emergency super shelter warm all over it is it's like if you can imagine what a rotisserie chicken would feel like that's basically what you're doing is sitting in a like a solar oven almost okay we're at 75 right now and it's still climbing we're almost at 80 degrees there are five heat loss mechanisms that you have to watch out for in a cold environment number one is conduction that simply means touching something colder than you are if you sit on a cold bench you're gonna lose heat through your butt to that bench it's the way it works number two is convection convection is wind you all heard of wind chill so you know just how effective the wind could be at accelerating your heat loss number three is radiation a lot of people don't realize it but we are actually constantly radiating long wave thermal radiation out into our environment up into space next we have respiration when I take a deep breath of that cold mountain air it's refreshing but as I exhale I'm exhaling warm moist air from my lungs and that's heat coming out of my body finally we have evaporation if you're wet from sweating or you've been in the rain or the snow or you've fallen in the creek the water evaporating from your skin greatly accelerates your heat loss there are a lot of inexpensive actually kind of cheap tube tents and mylar blankets that are available on the market they do an okay job at insulating you against those five heat loss mechanisms they get you out of the wind in the rain they help reflect a lot of your body heat back at you but honestly one of the little secrets that is pretty well known in the bushcraft and survival community is you can do just about the same job with a garbage bag well all these different shelters including the garbage bag they all have the same limitation and that limitation is they don't actually help you produce heat all they do is try to stem the loss of heat from your body and so if you are sick if you're injured if you're already wet or malnourished or tired there's a good chance that your body might not be able to produce enough heat to take advantage of one of those shelters anyways at the very least you're gonna be miserable and uncomfortable shivering all night long so how does a super shelter work well it does the same job that all those other shelters do it takes you out of the wind and out of the rain and snow it reflects a lot of your body heat but it does something that they don't in that it can be heated from the outside with a small campfire you ever notice how when you're next to a campfire or a wood stove that it feels like it warms your bones it's because it kind of does that fire is giving off thermal radiation like a big spotlight and it actually penetrates your tissue and starts to warm you from the inside and so what the super shelter does is acts like a greenhouse by collecting that radiation by collecting that warm energy coming off a fire and it traps it inside there with you so that it can warm you as well this is where the genius of the super shelter comes into play and I wish it was my genius but it's not all credit goes to a gentleman named Morris Cohan Ski mores is a highly respected and knowledgeable wilderness living skills and survival instructor he came up with the concept for the super shelter in the 19's I believe it was inspired by his observations of how igloos function and it is still today regularly improvised and built in the field by bushcraft and survival nerds alike by utilizing this method with a little bit of space-age materials and put it into a tiny package that you can throw in the back of your snowmobile in the back of your pack or your day pack you could be in your t-shirt and a pair of shorts even when it's below freezing outside as long as you know how to tend a small fire and you have of course a super shelter so here I am once again Kickstarter coming to you with my idea asking you to help me make it a reality I've teamed up with an incredible company called heat sheets they are the premier manufacturers of thermal reflective materials here in the United State they're NASA to prove their us government-approved their space approved they got all sorts of approvals I don't even know they are the people to go to for making this type of material and I'm really honored that they're working with me to make the shelter you we carry gear that we trust because we think adventure should be enjoyed until the very last bite meals are an essential part of being in the outdoors and to us the sports on the market have never quite measured it so we decided to create one that does introducing morsel a versatile utensil for cooking eating and clearing a tool designed to rethink the way we eat on the go morsel has a unique rubber edge that allows you to easily scrape every last bit of food the ergonomic asymmetrical shape its plates pops bags and bolts all shapes and sizes the extended length is perfect for digging deep without getting your hands dirty more so also features a full sized fork and a safe cutting edge for slicing through tough foods we've spent last year designing prototyping and testing the result is the best camping utensil we've ever used if you've been hungry for a better utensil your search is over