While the Tony Hawk Helmet Cam was a cheap buy, it gave cheap results. After looking at a number of high end cameras, and gagging on the price of most of them, we settled on the Elmo SUV Cam.

Nothing ticklish, or furry, about this little piece of technology. But it’s just as cute. Well, as cute as a micro video camera can be.

Elmo Cam

Over the course of the year, we’ve had a number of tyre changes and with it better performance both by Pinball and ourselves overall. But in each case, we were able to get just that little bit more from the tyres by the obligatory reduction in tyre pressure.

Of course, to do that you need some way to measure the pressure. Although we already had a tyre gauge, one of the prizes we won this year was able to make things a little easier… the ARB E-Z Tyre Deflator.
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Back in June of 2007 the Safety Institute of Australia held a conference and trade show in Brisbane at Southbank, naturally I attended in my “professional” role.

While browsing through the trade show I found a few interesting things, including some for play. Hopefully I’ll be able to run a review of Victor footwears new Mongrel zip side boot soon (it’s just been released) but meanwhile I’ve managed to lay my hands on some gear from XAX designs out of Melbourne.

The first thing to catch my eye was their MX Talon range of gloves, particularly the Vibra Gel models, designed to reduce the incidence of numbness and tingling in the hands after long exposure to a situation requiring a heavy hand and lotsa shake such as hammer drills.
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“Yeah now that’s better, no more sooky sooky wawa…”

Pearls of wisdom from Rachel as she leans out the window looking at Pinball testing some borrowed rubber Friday night at Janowen Hills.

Suck It Up

Something we’ve been looking at for quite some time is how to get some video footage from inside the vehicle, or at least from a driver/navigator perspective. If you have ever priced up helmet cameras and the like, you’ll know they arent cheap, and finding one that is totally untethered is rare and will cost more than your vehicle.

Isn’t it amazing what you can find when you’re not looking, more so when you’re doing Christmas shopping. While out with the tribe recently, Spock stumbled across this little gem – the Tony Hawk Helmet Cam.
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