Nice concept. Nice to see them used in a geodesic shape. These type of inflatable tents have been around in Holland since 1981.... see www.karstententen.nl

I have a self-erecting tent I bought a dozen years ago: take it out of the bag and toss it in the air, it\'s ready to stake to the ground. Setup takes maybe two minutes if I install the rainfly. The framework is spring steel and unfolds when it\'s released. It takes longer to fold it back up, some of the fabric is worn through, I need a replacement and can\'t find the company I bought it from. This was advertised heavily on TV back in the \'90s.

Old concept, also if you get the right pole tent it will be lighter and take way less time to set up than it takes to inflate that thing. Thats gotta be at least several minutes of pumping. Who likes pumping? Even though pole tents have slightly less room, who needs it? Tents are for sleeping, the outdoors are for moving around in.

yes we use to have an inflatable igloo tent in the 70\'s and 80\'s it was very convenient.

This one is lost on me. Sounded interesting until I looked at the specs - why would I pay 500 Euros for a tent weighing over 5 kilos when I can get a Vango 3 man Halo 300 weighing 25% less and costing less than 200 Euros? And is twin layer, perfectly stable and easy to erect? And there are plenty of existing alternatives from other manufacturers.

This is a unique design. Inflation takes under a minute and it is lighter than a comparable geodesic pole tent. check their site: www.heimplanet.com

I have visions of this tent rolling away like a ping pong ball in a high wind. One advantage of having to pump. It will warm you up in cold conditions. You could carry a small canister of compressed air (good for several inflations) charged up at a garage previously.What would be good, would be a double wall, for insulation purposes. I just noticed: time to erect, one minute. That is fast pumping!

The Cave is a double layer tent. You have an inner- and a outer- tent. It was tested up to 120kph of wind and was absolutely stable. Check the bios on the website: http://heimplanet.com/performance/?lang=en

I couldn\'t justify paying $669 for a tent, unless I was doing some serious outdoors activities, and then I\'d probably get a pole tent so that I wouldn\'t have to worry about it deflating.
Anything you take camping is likely to come back filthy and ruined. This means I want my camping gear to be something I can afford to replace.
If it was cheaper, though, it would be great for car camping. I already have a battery-powered pump for my air mattress, it would easily inflate this as well.

@Stefan C. The fan on a trailer is a good start but claiming that shooting 120km/h wind at it from one direction for a while was a test is a bit of a joke. Want a test? Go set this thing up at Burningman or Nowhere festival for a week and keep a timelapse camera on it. See how the tent reacts to its air-beams being heated and cooled repeatedly and battered by wind from all directions but the bottom. See how it handles having a dust-devil rock right on top of it and then stay there for a minute or so, then take it up onto a glacier and assemble it at altitude and let it get get beaten on by the wind for a while, after a few of those types of tests you can say that it was wind tested. Also, I would expect a tent that expensive to be 4-season capable. This one looks like it would be in a world of hurt under a snow load. Have you tested it in winter conditions at all?