Music festival

While most hydration packs could be used for just about anything, they're typically designed with activities like mountain biking or running in mind. The Duet, on the other hand, was created specifically for use at outdoor music festivals.

With its roof-top deck, beer tap and full features package, the Discarvery VW "Open Flair Edition" camper van rolls the highway as a mobile music festival headquarters built to blast music, party hard, sleep it off, and do it all again the next day.

For this year's Glastonbury Festival, EE is pitching a high-tech tent to keep festival-goers connected. Acting as a 4G Wi-Fi hotspot, the camper packs VR headsets, voice-activated mood-setting, livestreams of performances, a solar-powered boot warmer and a fridge that reminds you to restock it.

For the uninitiated, the UK's Glastonbury Festival is one of the largest music festivals in the world, which nowadays means it is one of the most data-hungry festivals too. Even with that in mind, this year's event, which ran for five days last week, was something of a data blowout.

If you've camped at music festivals, you'll know that tents are often discarded afterwards for campsite crews to clear up. This is, obviously, incredibly wasteful. Recognizing this, a pair of Dutch designers decided that, if people are going to leave their tents, they might as well be recyclable.

A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited beer-swigging live music lovers at last week's Roskilde Festival to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.

We've seen drones designed to deliver all kinds of things, but music? That's new territory even for this rapidly growing technology. But Spotify and a Belgian mobile operator are marching to the beat of their own drum, using UAVs to deliver personalized music to festival goers in Belgium last month.

The Glad Company recently experimented with a combination tent and garbage bag, known as the Glad Tent.

A visual effects studio recently brought long-dead rapper, Tupac Shakur, back to life as a 3D-like projection for one more performance at the Coachella music festival.

Orange and Gotwind join forces for the third time to showcase their latest outdoor charging solution at this year's Glastonbury Festival – the Orange Power Pump.