Coolers

The disposable foam cooler is so environmentally unfriendly government bodies stretching from New York City to San Diego have been implementing sales bans. Thus, a new market opens, and Igloo steps in with a disposable cooler that's both reusable and biodegradable.

Blue Quench's super-fast beer cooler is about to drop on Indiegogo, and this thing means business, as long as the business is a party. When nothing but ice-cold is good enough, and a minute's the longest you can wait, this thing chills beers faster than anything outside a cryogenics lab.

Furrion used this year's CES to present its new Outdoor Living lineup, a series of smart products for tailgating and outdoor life. Chief among those products is the Rova, an iceless wheeled cooler that offers up to a week of off-grid cooling power via a removable battery.

With the year winding down in a hurry, ​here's a look at the best camping gear we put through the wringer in 2018. After all, spending time outdoors is what gear innovation is all about, right?

Following up from the rugged Venture coolers launched last year, OtterBox has now released two new soft coolers designed to be easily carried with one model even coming with straps enabling it to be lugged around like a backpack.

The latest camping tools help you cook, sleep and relax under the open sky, using technology and design innovation toward enhancing every aspect of the camping experience. And whether you're writing your own holiday wish list or shopping for someone else, each one could make the perfect gift.

Rovr has reimagined the cooler, going beyond the bear-proof, rotomolded construction so common on the market these days. It calls its cooler an "all-terrain attacking, gear-hauling beast of burden that can go anywhere you can" and follows through with pneumatic tires, a cargo bin and a bike hitch.

Camping trips, tailgates and picnics involve lots of large, awkward gear that can be a pain to stuff in the car and unload. Stckbls has a way of streamlining the trip, offering a series of stackable BBQ-party cubes that save space and roll easily to your destination.

Van life, social hammocking, $500 coolers, and battery packs and charging cables everywhere? The outdoors – or, at least, outdoor gear and the people that venture into it – is changing. New Atlas stopped by last week's Outdoor Retailer Summer Market to peek in on the latest changes.

Otterbox has found an audience with its rugged phone cases, but it wants to do more than protect the hunk of metal and glass in your back pocket. The Venture takes the same approach the company has applied to its smartphone cases, and puts it to good use in a rugged cooler for outdoor adventurers.

Camping can be fun, but going without the comforts of home isn't for everybody. So if your idea of roughin' it for the weekend still includes ice cold water and the ability to charge your phone, the Little Luxury Outdoor Extreme Water Cooler​ might be for you.

Above all else, it's important that any device does its bread-and-butter functionality well. The nipi cooler, which is currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign, is said to keep ice frozen for six full days, and comes packed with what its makers call "21st century survival features."