By
Anthony Bond

PUBLISHED:

10:49 EST, 9 May 2013
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UPDATED:

11:32 EST, 9 May 2013

When seen on the road, this camper van does not look out of the ordinary.

However, its interior hides a very impressive and secretive design which can double its living space at the touch of a button.

The new invention transforms the T5 Doubleback into a 26ft long home on wheels.

Impressive: This camper van is guaranteed to turn heads after engineers used Thunderbirds-style technology to double living space at the touch of a button

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Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322023/Just-vantastic-Head-turning-campervan-opens-reveal-secret-compartment-flick-switch.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Going Camping? Take The BioLite And Charge Your iPhone With Fire

Killian Bell

BioLite should be the first thing you pack for your next camping trip.

I hate camping. I don’t see the appeal in sleeping in a cold, damp tent, with no access to a shower or electricity. Once your iOS devices run out of battery, what is there to do? Continue reading »

Article source: http://www.cultofmac.com/179037/going-camping-take-the-biolite-and-charge-your-iphone-with-fire/

Smartphones are ideal accessories for the outdoors since not only do they provide instant communication via voice or mobile Internet, they feature built-in GPS (Global Positioning System) as well as digital compasses. They can also carry a number of useful apps. Here are some of the best we’ve tried.

Parks Canada Learn to Camp App Continue reading »

Article source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Three+outdoor+camping+apps+summer/7018821/story.html

• Mick McDonald, 50, converted a rusty old VW campervan into a hearse for his friend’s business, Retro Farewell
• He joked that the work would kill him before dying last month
• he was carried from Darlington funeral parlour to Middlesbrough crematorium in hearse on September 28

By Helen Pow

A mechanic appears to have predicted the circumstances surrounding his own death when he died from a heart attack after completing work on converting a VW campervan into a hearse.

Mick McDonald, 50, had joked that the job would ‘be the death of him’ but then he became the first person to use it.

Mr McDonald had carried out the work for his friend Carl Bell’s business, Retro Farewell.

After the fatal cardiac arrest he was driven for his own funeral from John Meynell parlour in Darlington to Acklam crematorium in Middlesbrough.

Rest in peace: Carl Bell, pictured, stands with the VW hearse his friend Mick McDonald built before he died and was driven in it from his funeral Continue reading »

Article source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214984/Mick-McDonald-campervan-Mechanics-grim-apparition-person-use-VW-hearse-built.html?ITO=1490

BMW MINI goes camping

It is summer and it is camping season for all those who love spending time with the bears and mosquitoes. Now, if you are headed to the great outdoors in your MINI you take all the comforts, well some of the comforts, of home with you with MINI’s new camping add-ons.

MINI has announced its arrival among the ranks of European camping outfitters. An appointed caravan with two sleeping bays and a roof-top tent (also designed for two) in the classic John Cooper Works color scheme will wet the appetite for do-it-yourself summer vacations peppered with spur-of-the-moment detours along the way. Continue reading »

Article source: http://www.sportscarillustrated.com/News_2012/C/news12_0233.html