SteriPEN Adventurer Opti Reviewed in the Globe and Mail
The SteriPEN Adventurer Opti appeared in the Canadian newspaper’s Lifestyle Magazine this winter. Writer Eva Lam gave it a glowing recommendation for outdoor sports enthusiasts and travelers alike. “If you’ve ever travelled overseas or ventured into the wilds on a camp-out adventure, you’ve no doubt run into the issue of accessing clean, safe water. But you also [...]
Chuck La Tournous Praises SteriPEN at Macworld Expo
Chuck La Tournous, camping and tech geek extraordinaire, praised SteriPEN’s UV water purification in his talk, “The Great (Geek) Outdoors” at Macworld | iWorld in San Francisco this year. Highlighting its innovation over traditional methods of ensuring safe drinking water, La Tournous recommends SteriPEN as a lightweight, quick, easy-to-use method that doesn’t leave a bad [...]
Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide For The Travel Savvy
If your geek-chic sweetie has a sense of adventure on both sides of the camera, you might want to consider a few of these photo-driven finds and some of these tech sexy toys to kick start a very creative Christmas and “Happy Holidays” season. Not to be outdone by their toys alone, the geek-chics are [...]
Steripen Handheld UV Water Purifier a Great Gift Idea Any Time
We have the perfect gift idea for anyone you know that travels out of the country, enjoys camping, and likes to be prepared in case of emergency situations. Let’s start off with a practical story, where I really wish I would have owned a UV water filter myself. A few years ago I went on [...]
Abracadabra! OK, now drink.
Working as a family-owned outfitter is a lot like working at a hardware store in that you have to know what you’re talking about. If you don’t, your customers might die. And usually, in both worlds, the employees have to use the products to understand them. That means that you either become passionate about the [...]
Blue Hill outdoorsman-inventor paves the way to safe water, any time, anywhere
The power of the sun inspired one Maine resident to invent the SteriPEN, a handy gizmo that was recently named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 All-Time Gadgets, a list of “the greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present.” The SteriPEN, a compact water purifier, is usually found in sports stores, outfitters [...]
Mens Journal tags SteriPEN Freedom in “Gear of the Year 2011″
Over the past 12 months, Men’s Journal editors, writers and correspndents torture-tested hundreds of new products and SteriPEN Freedom made the grade.
SteriPEN recognized in Time Magazine’s Top 100 All-Time Gadgets
Recently TIME Magazine selected SteriPEN to be included in their list of “All-TIME 100 Gadgets” – “the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present.” Previously SteriPEN was honored by TIME Magazine as one of the “Best Inventions” of 2001. This year not only were SteriPEN water purifiers judged by Time editors and writers. [...]
Oregon Outdoors Christmas Gift Guide
“The theme of this year’s Oregon Outdoors Christmas gift guide is water: Playing in it, drinking it, staying dry from it. And because we have plenty of it around — from the salty version in the Pacific to the running kind in the Rogue — the outdoorsy types on your gift list will be able [...]
Find that perfect gift for the outdoorsy person on your list
SteriPEN featured in our local daily! By Aislinn Sarnacki, BDN Staff “SteriPEN water purifier ($59.95-99.95): SteriPEN, a company based in Blue Hill, harnesses the power of ultraviolet light to make water safe to drink. Their water purifiers, which are slightly bigger than a pen, destroys 99.9 percent of bacteria, viruses and protozoan cysts such as [...]
Featured in Blue Ridge Outdoors
Honored to be featured as #4 on the Blue Ridge Outdoors Top 40 Outdoor Gear accesories “4. Steripen Freedom The Freedom is Steripen’s smallest, lightest ultraviolet water purifier, killing 99% of the bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in your 16-ounce water bottle in just 48 seconds. And with this model, Steripen fixed the only knock we ever [...]
SteriPEN Freedom featured in Travel +Leisure as a “Best Travel Accessory”
Avoid sickness by purifying your water Far-flung travel and outdoor adventures are fabulous opportunities for contracting a water-borne illness. But giardia or cryptosporidium don’t have to interfere with your plans. Hydro-Photon’s handheld water purifiers use ultraviolet light to render harmless more than 99.9 percent of potentially hazardous microorganisms in about 48 seconds…. Read the full [...]
New SteriPEN Freedom: Smaller and USB Rechargeable!
The beloved SteriPEN water purifier keeps getting better. I loved my original Traveler and and the Steripen Opti was even better. I’ve lost count of how many international trips those two items have kept me healthy—dozens. But ever since I laid eyes on a prototype last January, I’ve been looking forward to checking out this new Steripen Freedom. In case [...]
Five great gifts for adventure travelers
Article by Dan A. Nelson in The Seattle Times Travelers who prefer adventure to pampering when venturing abroad will appreciate gifts that keep them safe as they explore off the beaten path. Here are a few gift ideas we tested on our own rambles around the wilds, from the Yukon to Mexico. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/outdoors/2016899906_odgifts04.html
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti featured in Backpacker Magazines “Go Solo Safely”
Backpacking by yourself provides the ultimate test of self-reliance – with a heaping bonus of silence & solitude. But many hikers fear being far from help if things go wrong. By Kristy Holland “Going Solo,” Backpacker SteriPEN November 2011
4 innovative projects making water more accessible in the developing world
Water, one of the earth’s most important natural resources, is abundant for most of the developed world: We have taps with clean drinking water, showers with warm water and stores stocked with bottles. But for a large percentage of people, these simple, over-looked luxuries are not available. The U.N. has collected stats showing that one [...]
Gear Girl Recommends SteriPEN Sidewinder in Outdoor Magazine
Q: HELP! I NEED CHEAP, LIGHTWEIGHT GEAR. I need to update my gear closet for a weekend backpacking trip in Arizona. I can’t afford to spend much, but my husband and I are aiming to hike upward of 15 miles each day and I don’t want to be weighed down. Any suggestions? … 4. [...]
Gadling gear review: SteriPen Freedom water purifier
In depth review of the Freedom in GADLING, a blog from the Huffington Post.
SteriPEN inventor Miles Maiden discusses emergency preparedness on “Disaster Recovery Hour”
Listen to to Miles’ conversation with host Chris Plunkett discuss emergency preparedness and how SteriPEN can be utilized for this purpose.
Zimbio.com features SteriPEN Traveler
SteriPEN Traveler UV Water Purifier. With a SteriPEN water purifier, UV light eliminates harmful bacteria, viruses and protozoa. This germicidal ultraviolet (UV) light is more intense than sunlight and kills microorganisms. Its the same technology used by leading bottled water companies and major cities to purify their drinking water.
Wired Magazine features SteriPEN Adventurer Opti in “The Wired Travel Optimizer”
Excerpt from feature: Don’t drink the water, and don’t buy bottled either: Sterilize your own with UV light! ($90) Read full feature at Wired.com
802 Relief distributing SteriPEN water purifiers to drive disaster recovery efforts in Vermont
The Rutland Herald of Rutland, VT. is covering the disaster recovery of Vermont following the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. You can read Rutland Herald’s article about how Scott Tommola’s 802 Relief is distributing SteriPEN Emergency portable water purifiers to citizens in need throughout Southern Vermont. You can also learn more and/or donate to Scott’s [...]
The Sun’s summer holiday travel guide features SteriPEN Traveler
The SteriPEN Mini Traveler purifies half a litre of water in 90 seconds, so you can have drinking water quickly and easily wherever you are. It uses UV light to kill bacteria.
Huffington Post Travel section highlights SteriPEN portable uv purifiers
Finally, I heard about SteriPen, a small device that takes a grand total of 90 seconds to purify water. This miniature light saber, as I began to think of it, weighs next to nothing, fits easily inside a shoe (with room leftover to pack a couple socks) and uses the same process to kill bacteria as [...]
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti named Editor’s Choice in 2011 Backpacker Magazine April edition
The SteriPEN Adventurer Opti was named Editor’s Choice 2011 in Backpacker Magazine April edition. Check out the video presentation at backpacker.com