Our pick of the coolest gadgets, techiest tents and most cutting-edge campervans designed to make your next outdoor adventure a breeze
High-tech tents
Meet the perfect middle ground between camping tent and glamping palace – Robens’ beautiful quality Chinook Ursa. This roomy tipi design can be opened right up to make a Bedouin-style shelter, or pegged down to make a roomy tent that can sleep up to eight adults. Breathable polycotton makes this a delightfully cool home-from-home in hot weather.
£1,390, robens.de
Transform your car into a lean, mean camping machine with Dometic’s TRT 140 AIR rooftop tent. This clever design is fully inflatable, so it’s less fiddly than you might think to grab it from the boot and have a cosy elevated tent complete with ladder ready to go in minutes. Breathable polycotton and mesh windows stop the tent getting stuffy, and there’s even a builtin foam mattress.
£2,199, dometic.com
Our favourite innovations in the tent world are the sustainable ones. Vango’s handsome new Joro Air 450 is made using 100% recycled materials, with 207 old plastic bottles making up each tent. The Joro also features singlepoint inflation, so it’s refreshingly simple to erect all of the beams of this family-sized fourman tent in minutes. Blackout bedrooms are the cherry on the cake.
£849, outdoorworlddirect.co.uk
So cutting-edge it isn’t even on the market yet, Jackery’s LightTent-AIR is one to watch out for – it’s already winning awards for its innovative use of solar panels that charge during the day and allow you to power up your devices or turn on lights come evening. The frame of this futuristic-looking tent, which sleeps four, is fully inflatable.
£TBC, jackery.com
