(Video Note: Hydration Pack Stable Load, Load Capacity and Load Weight Videos Located Below) Traditional hydration packs, as you deplete the water from the reservoir, require the reservoir to be hung inside the pack to keep it from slumping over and creating air locks and water locks that prevent the water from being sucked through the tube. Also, as the water is depleted, the volume of contents in the pack reduces, and therefore allows the other contents in the pack to shift around inside the pack. Additionally, the warmth from the sun glaring down on the pack, or the warmth from your body transfering to the pack, contributes to the warming of your water. The GEIGERRIG hydraiton engine fixes each of these issues. The pressurizing air chamber inside the GEIGERRIG hydration engine keeps the system standing straight and tall inside the pack withougt any requirement to hang the hydration system. Just drop the hydration system into the holster, put the rest of your gear in your pack, and then pressurize with 20-25 pumps.
The pressurizing air will keep the hydration system standing straight up without any concern for slumping that results in air locks and water locks. As the water in a GEIGERRIG hydration engine is depleted, the depleted water volume is replaced with air, thus keeping the hydration engine about the same size even as the water depletes. This means that the contents of your pack will remain securely loaded without any shifting and destablization of your load. Also, you can load as much gear in a pack outfitted with a GEIGERRIG pressurized hydration engine as you can with a pack loaded with a traditional hydration bladder. All you need to do is load the hydration sleeve of your pack with your GEIGERRIG Hydration Engine, then load all the gear into the pack, zip it shut, then pressurize. The pressurizing will simply pressurize around whatever else is in the pack. The more gear in the pack, the less pumps required to pressurize. Finally, you should note that the air chamber of your hydration engine serves as an insulator to your water compartment.
You can load the air chamber facing toward the heat source so that it provides an insulating buffer between the heat source (your back or the sun) and your cool, refreshing drink. + Stable Water Load Video - Pressurized Hydration Packs + Spray, Stable Load, Same Capacity, No Added Weight Video - Pressurized Hydration Packs Pressurized Hydration Packs - Defending the Truth: As GEIGERRIG hydration packs burst onto the hydration pack scene, competing hydration pack companies began to defend their turf--and understandably so. There had not been an significant improvement in the world of hydration packs since the world of hydration packs came to be. Almost every hydration pack company utilizes the same basic hydration pack set-up and hydration pack argument. Basically, a hydration pack is a backpack with a polyurethane bag in it with a drink tube that goes into the athlete's mouth. The "hands-free" nature of the hydration packs, and the ability to carry the water on your back, provides convenience and a better hydrating experiences.
That's been the extent of the hydration pack world for over a decade. GEIGERRIG came along and the issues of convenience and hands-free received a whole new meaning. The water carried in a hydration pack was now usable for so many more purposes. Spraying the sweat off of your face. Spraying the rubble out of a wound. Spraying mud off of your gear. Spraying sticking hands at a soccer game. Ever Rn out of water while on a hike or run? GEIGERIG allows you to keep pushing on and drink clean pressurized water fresh from the stream. On and on and on. -- So, let's invent some performance trade-offs for these benefits so as to stop the march of GEIGERRIG hydration packs. That was the first response of the traditional hydration pack companies. Accordingly, competing hydration pack companies began injecting the subtle argument into the market that the addition of pressure into a hydration pack decrease the amount of gear that can be loaded into the hydration pack.
By making this argument, the traditional hydration pack companies hoped to say, "Go ahead, buy those pressurized hydration packs, but you won't be able to carry anything other than water...." This is simply not true, and the video above shows the truth in plane, clear terms and demonstration. In fact, the more gear you load into the hydration pack, the less pumps required to create the pressure required to generate the desired level of spray. The myth propagated by traditional hydration pack companies is now debunked and proven false. Shark tank Season 3 Air Beds on Shark Tank Show Air Bed's made for Pick-up Trucks - Season 3, Episode 313 - Update Talk about a super cool air mattress that's easy to blow up, these TruckBedz make for Pickup Trucks are definitely Top of the Line. Have you ever had an air mattress that had an automatic built in pump? Just turn it on and it inflates all by itself, completely filling the back of your pickup truck and turning it into an instant bed.
Jim Pittman, owner of Pittman Outdoors, came into the Shark Tank seeking a $250,000.00 investment in his air bed's made for pickup trucks business in exchange for 15% of the company. He started off by stating that the camping industry is a whopping $56 billion dollar business and the Air Bedz could take a big bite out of that. Sales last year were $110k and sales this year were predicted at $120k. Pittman has sold over 3300 AirBeds in the past 2 years and is sitting on $400k in inventory. He has invested $250k of his own money to bring the AirBedz to market. Kevin O'Leary is the first Shark to attack the air bedz business. He wants to know if this is the best air bed that you can buy for the back of a pickup truck, then why only $120k in sales? It was then Mark Cubans turn to talk and he really liked the product but was also concerned with the number of Air Bedz being sold. All four male Sharks are obviously not the outdoor type, go out leaving our Lady Shark, Barbara Corcoran the last one still in.
She asks about the patent on the Air Bedz with the built in pump and is pleasantly surprised that Pittman actually has secured 4 patent's on his invention. Corcoran realises that this is indeed a very well made product but sees a problem in Jim's sales ability to sell the Air Beds on a large scale. Barbara Corcoran makes a rather unusual offer to Pittman for the $250k he was seeking but for 50% of the business. Remember Jim is sitting on $400k of inventory giving a very nice cushion right under Barbara's you know what. She sugar coats her offer real good saying she can't believe the Air Bedz are not selling 10,000 units a day and she can make it happen by getting the Air Bedz on QVC. Jim has no interest in that offer but does counter for 25% of the business. Barbara knowing how much time this will take to sell the numbers she is talking about, declines Jim's counter offer and she is the last in the Shark Tank to go out. AirBedz After The Shark Tank Update As Barbara Corcoran once said, (I think it was even during this episode with Villy Customs) "I am your sweet spot customer for this product".
I have actually slept in the back of a pickup truck several nights, and to my knowledge, may of been one of the first persons that took a tent with bendable poles and redesigned it to fit on over the pickup bed, and yes, with a blow up air mattress on the bottom. We sure got a lot of funny looks back then, but look at this market now.Not if your camping in Bear Country! The first time you have a bear come strolling into camp when you are sleeping helplessly on the ground in a tent, with two little kids, is the time you realise that's not the best place to be sleeping in certain areas. Oddly enough, as much as I looked, I could not find anything where the AirBedz are being promoted as a safety measure and why in certain areas, it is in your best interest to be sleeping in the back of your pick-up truck and not in a conventional tent. Giving camper's a very realistic safety reason to turn the pick-up truck into a sleeping area using the Air Bedz, sure seems like a great marketing strategy that will sell thousands of additional units.