Backpacker Magazine GearCast: NEMO Morpho air-beam tent
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at
10:34 am
Backpacker magazine’s editor-in-chief Jonathan Dorn demonstrates the inflatable “air beams” that form the structure of this innovative new tent. For more details, see the review in the December 2006 issue. Specs: 5, 6 lbs. 4 oz.
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Awesome review…and awesome tent! I’ve featured you at YouTubeReviews com
dude has my dream job
Interesting video. I wish producers wouild get good lapel microphones when they do this type of video. It is a bit exhausting & distracting to listen to all the echoing.
He should try out for the NBA
Great video. Sound is fine for this purpose. Hearing you loud and clear.
Interesting
I really doubt backpacker magazine really tests all the products they claim to have tested. i just found in the 2007 gear guide, on one of the products, all they did was take the stock photo and change the color with photoshop. good photoshop work, but shameless corporate american bullshit.
Backpacker’s editors and testers put all the gear featured in the magazine and in these videos through a rigorous testing process. And now that our staff has relocated to Boulder, Colorado — we’re going to be able to test products to an even greater degree of intensity and use.
As a gear tester having just visited Backpacker Mag’s new offices in Boulder, they largely request new equipment from the manufacturers for photos in the Gear Guide as opposed to photographing the smelly, dirty, used gear that was tested.
Pretty innovative, although I’d never take a single wall tent. And even though it may stand up to high winds, I can imagine that it will start to move and jiggle a bit sooner than most other tents do (but maybe I’m wrong..).
Set-up is amazingly fast though. Is breaking it down and letting the air out just as fast?
Also wonder if anything is included to fix a puncture. And what’s the weight of the pump?
Ok, so I checked out the site and read some more about the technology. So there IS in fact some gear included to fix punctures and even a spare “tube” (air channel). And the pump weighs in at 4 oz. So maybe this ís the future. Still hope they’ll come up with an affordable double wall though.
Or you could just a bombproof steel frame tent.
I had one and after a bad storm the pole snapped. We took it to a garage and got it welded.
I can see it in a bad storm blowing all around. And I can see pin holes in the frame and leaking air out the frame after a few outing on the seams where you can’t patch yet alone all the time to find the leak. I don’t like it and it weighs to much to, 6 pounds. And the pump looks cheap and will break easy to. And its a single wall tent to so your going to be all sweaty in the summer to if you have to close it up. Never broke a tent frame in 30 years.
ahhh – now I know the point of a vestibule. Thanks
terrible video; try putting the camera at at least a 3/4 angle next time so we can actually see the tent instead of just the front of it, even when he talked about the side doors the camera stayed on the front without ever showing them
i had the Nemo Morpho AR for 1 day before i took it back; its the only Morpho model available and unlike the original doesnt have the side doors, no idea why they took them out, also the air beams are THICK and make you feel like you’re inside a kid’s toy tent
also this tent has terrible ventilation, pumping it up gets really annoying really fast (i can set up my MSR Hubba Hubba way faster than i can pump up a Morpho), and its main selling point really is the air beams but most people dont break aluminium poles, not to mention that aluminium poles come with repair kits
Wow, it´s quite remarkable how aggressive some people respond to innovative ideas.
But then again, THAT is nothing new.
i have a better tent get a sheet get a fan put the sheet on the front of the fan then tape down the sides of it turn on the fan then enjoy.