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Written By Thato

Shopping for a woman can be a scary experience. Whether shopping online or heading to overcrowded shopping malls over the festive season, late shopping can be a nightmare.

There's is a little insight on good Xmas presents with a slight techno edge to gently ease your lady or family member into the gadget world.

Garmin Forerunner 10

The Forerunner 10 by Garmin is an easy to use running watch that keeps track of all your vital info such us pace and calories burnt, while you work up a sweat running or exercising.

The bold colour range available will give the feminine lady a choice of bright accessories with a bit of style during those hectic gym sessions.

Standout Features:

Time and distance recording, keeps records and lets you know when you’ve beaten a record time, virtual pace monitor, GPS Route tracking, and compatibility with the Garmin App.

RED – E Powerbank Superior Edition.

This handy portable charger allows you to charge a smartphone or Micro/Mini USB powered device on the go. Packed with an awesome 4500mAh power battery, one can easily charge and recharge devices on multiple occasions without ‘refuelling’ the charger. Small and compact, perfect fit in a purse or handbag.

Stand out features:

4500 mAh powered batter, slim and compact design, MicroSD card access, multiple smartphone connections including Micro and Mini USB connectors.

Nikon CoolPIx AW100.

A fabulous camera to introduce your lady to the world of underwater cameras. The CoolPix AW100 is brought you by the trusted Nikon brand. The camera handles excellently giving stunning high res images and High def video.

Standout Features:

Full HD recording with audio, 16MP still images, 3” Built in,LCD Screen, built in gps.

XSories Lighty

A great one for relief of sudden bouts of darkness. The Lighty emits light at an ultra-bright 30 lumens and shines out to a range of 30 metres. Its simple set-up allows connection to a car 12 volt lighter outlet for direct power and recharging.

GorillaMobile Yogi

The Yogi is a fun and flexible ipad holder and stand. This funny gadget lets you attach and mount your ipad to a variety of interesting places.

Standout Features:

Tough polycarbonate iPad casing, 360 degree flexi legs, adjustable viewing (both portrait and landscape).

Written By Thato

In the wake of Amazon announcing it's plans of using flying drones to deliver parcels, the German branch of international delivery service DHL, have begun their own plans into swing. According to the Deutsche post company, full testing of the flying copter is currntly under-way in the German capital.

The technology behind the service, is the the use of a multi rotor helicopter that is pilot less and self-driven. Although the drones that will be tested in the week long experiment are remote controlled, company spokesperson Tomas Kutsch has says that future models will rely solely on GPS navigation for flight navigation.

"All flights currently done are strictly a research project to see if the technology works and there are no plans yet to start actual drone deliveries. The test flights have been clear for permission from local aviation authorities."

The service looks to be a great innovation in the quest for faster delivery time but the idea has been met with a few questions of uncertacy.

Collin UK - "If it really took off you'd have hundreds if not thousands of drones in action, all the time. Do you really want these little bugs flying all over your head?"

Justin USA - "And... who will ring on my door bell?"

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The world is full of people looking to save on buying mounts for their GoPro and make their own DIY mounts and rigs. Here are a couple of the more…erm…interesting ones.

1) Reminiscent of the movie UP! This Guy’s floats his GoPro instead of a house. He mounts his cam using a Styrofoam x that is squashed into 50 helium filled balloons. NICE!



2) For fast moving long line shots, this fellow was creative enough to create his very own cable cam out of his GoPro.

3) A short trip to the hardware store, 3 minute of time and bam, you have yourself a windshield mount.

4) For water lovers, this GoPro rig is made completely out of PVC. Lightweight operation with included flashlight.

5) Why not add a GoPro to your bait on your next fishing trip.

After all these weird and wonderful mounts, rest assured that Action Gear stocks a wide of original GoPro Mounts and accercories.

Action Gear does not recommend using or making any of the mounts/rigs/accessories on this blog post. Strictly for laughs and giggles.

When using the solar charge batteries the common practice is to leave the solar panel in the sun all day connected to the rechargeable battery in order to charge up the battery. Then when arriving at your destination you then plug your phone, camera or any other electronic to the charged up battery source. This is a good way to do it but there is a better way...

While the sun is out connect the charger to the solar panel as before but then you can also connect your electronic device to the battery charger at the same time - one big daisy chain. The resulting effect is that at the end of the day your rechargeable battery has the same amount of power as if you hadn't set up the daisy chain because the discharge through the day brings in more power. You're then left with one or more fully charged devices and a full power battery which can then charge any remaining batteries over night.

A trick however is that not all solar rechargeable battery units can actually work in this way. Of the Powertraveller range the three units which can support a daisy chain are the Power Gorilla, Solar Gorilla, the Solarmonkey Adventurer and the PowerMonkey Extreme.

We're incredibly proud to launch Action Gear which is the successor brand to Action Cameras, which has led the South African market in sports cameras like the GoPro, Drift and for more than three years. In early 2010 we launched Action Cameras as the first and only specialist in this field. Over the years many companies popped up competing for their share of this market which has exploded but we pride ourselves in the fact that we not only remained the market leader but we remained the only one to specialise in this range of cameras.

Our success stemmed from our dedication to giving each customer a positive interaction to remember us by and backing this up with an in-depth knowledge of our product offering. Over the years we've been fortunate enough to win numerous awards and to be recognised through interviews on all the major radio stations and a number of TV shows. You can read more about these awards in the About Us section of the site.

Moving forward under the team name Action Gear we will strive to improve on our strengths to offer an even better product and service offering.

We look forward to dealing with many new customers, vendors, partners and friends in the coming years.

The Action Gear Team