The Best Gear for Travelers Includes the SteriPEN Traveler
Great adventures demand great gear. That’s why we were so pleased to be included in the Bucket List Publications review of The Best Travel Accessories. The Traveler is designed to fit perfectly into commercial water bottles, forming a seal that lets you keep the water in the original bottle for purification. Just insert the Traveler [...]
Trekking the Himalayas for Mother’s Day
Julia Sweet and her mother Hanni Meyers are celebrating Mother’s Day this year in a big way: the two have planned a trekking trip along the skirts of Mount Everest through the Himalayas. Cool, right? Oh yeah, her mother is 82 years old. (Check out the SteriPEN at the :21 second mark)
Insider Perks Recommends SteriPEN for SHTF Situations
The end of the Mayan calendar, zombies or just a really big hurricane. Whatever the emergency, when the Stuff Hits the Fan you’d better be ready. Insider Perks recently reviewed the SteriPEN Adventurer Opti Solar Kit with SHTF situations in mind: As people run screaming through the streets, rioting ensues, looting begins and humanity fights [...]
Backpacker Magazine 2012 Gear Guide 10 Essentials Includes SteriPEN Freedom
Backpacker Magazine has long recognized the value SteriPEN’s pioneering technology represents for serious outdoor athletes: small profile, light weight, ease of use and dependability. Last year the SteriPEN Adventurer Opti won their Editor’s Choice Award for just those reasons. Here at SteriPEN Global Headquarters in Blue Hill, Maine, we were thrilled, if not totally surprised, to learn [...]
Australian Outdoor Magazines Feature SteriPEN Freedom
Our friends at Sea to Summit, the esteemed Australian purveyor of outdoor goods, passed along a nice couple of SteriPEN press hits from Down Under. Outer Edge magazine focuses on the ways of the Aussie Adventurer, reviewing and recommending gear to help those bold souls push past boundaries. Australian Geographic Outdoor is a source of inspiration for [...]
Denver Post Recommends SteriPEN Freedom for National Park Week
The Denver Post’s website recently featured the SteriPEN Freedom in an article about National Park Week. Weight constraints are a real concern for many hikers, backpackers and outdoor enthusiasts. In the article, Kyle highlights the Freedom’s light weight and that it can be recharged by wall outlet, computer or portable solar panel via its included [...]
Cheapflights.com Includes SteriPEN Traveler in Review of Top 10 Eco-friendly Travel Gadgets
The SteriPEN Traveler is a great piece of equipment of any going abroad, that much is clear. It’s small, lightweight, takes AA batteries and keeps you from getting the Dreaded TD: Traveler’s D**rrhea. Nobody likes talking about it, but (no pun intended), worse than talking about it is having to cope with it. In a [...]
Press in Mexico, Germany and San Francisco, oh my!
Newspapers around Mexico, like this one from the Yucatán, featured SteriPEN as one of the most useful tools for travelers. The German outdoor blog, Bergzeit reviewed the SteriPEN Journey LCD earlier this year, strongly recommending it for travelers both rugged and glamorous. Tom Stienstra, outdoor blogger at the San Francisco Chronicle, rated SteriPEN one of the [...]
How Stuff Works Explains the SteriPEN
The SteriPEN Traveler was recently featured in HowStuffWorks.com’s 10 Gadgets for Your Next Road Trip article. Writer John Kelly highlighted its lightweight and effectiveness, as well as the fact that SteriPENs liberate you from having to pack wasteful water bottles. HowStuffWorks.com has also added a general overview of the SteriPEN to its collection of travel [...]
SteriPEN Freedom Featured on Geekie Gadgets
Entamoeba histolytica, Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholera, Salmonella typhi, and Shigella dysenteriae are just some of the very bad names you don’t want to meet on your travel and much more on your drinking water. The SteriPEN Freedom has been making impressions around the web as a smart, flexible and effective tool for travelers looking for [...]
SteriPEN Freedom Reviewed on HikingLady.com
SteriPEN already had a loyal fan in the Hiking Lady, even before the Freedom came out. She was an early convert, having owned the original Classic and upgrading it for an Adventurer Opti. With the release of the Freedom and its built-in USB-rechargeable battery she took the opportunity to highlight the newest available features. An [...]
The Today Show Features SteriPEN Freedom
We are happy to announce that the SteriPEN Freedom was featured on the Today Show this morning! Hoda and Kathie Lee presented their “Today’s Tech” segment on devices for germaphobes. The piece featured a mention of the SteriPEN Freedom. In it, their guest, editor Dan Costa from PC Magazine, pointed out the effectiveness of SteriPEN’s UVC [...]
Backpacker Magazine Recommends SteriPEN
The Traveler 3-in-1 is a must-have for your camp kit or travels abroad, according to Backpacker Magazine’s Abbey Smith. Her article in the March issue focuses on TSA-friendly gear that won’t get you into trouble with airport security. For water purification, she suggests the Traveler 3-in-1: SteriPEN Traveler 3-in-1 ($50; 5.7 oz.; steripen.com) uses UV light [...]
SteriPEN Freedom Appears in the Spokesman-Review
Spokane, Washington’s newspaper, The Spokesman Review, featured the SteriPEN Freedom in the Outdoors section this past Sunday. Writer Steven Regenold, a longtime SteriPEN fan, highlighted the new Freedom’s portability, ease of use and effectiveness for international travel and outdoor adventures. For the past couple of years, while backpacking in the wilderness and on international trips, [...]
Review of the SteriPEN Freedom on Headlines and Heroes
The SteriPEN Freedom was featured in a snappy review over at Headlines & Heroes, the technology and entertainment blog. When even The Diddy, mastermind of the infamous White Party, gives you props for being a fabulous host (your Chartreuse Party was off the hizzy), you know you’re doing alright. But as far as hosting [...]
About.com Guide Review
Guide Review – SteriPen — Easily Purify Drinking Water The SteriPEN is a wonderful travel aid, whether visiting a foreign country or camping in the wilderness, because it’s easy to use when you want to purify water. Does someone on the trip have Montezuma’s Revenge? Odds are slim you’ll get it if you’re drinking bottled [...]
Travel Tip from My Travel Safety
“While this site is mainly focused on travel safety, we will occasionally discuss travel health issues. A water borne disease can quickly ruin your trip. The good news is that it can be avoided. There are a number of ways to treat and purify water. You can always of course boil water to kill all [...]
Disaster Preparedness – Are you ready?
For some people, the end of the world as we know it is upon us, and there is no better time than now to start preparing. Such is the concept of National Geographic Channel‘s new reality show Doomsday Preppers, which profiles Americans who have taken extreme measures to plan for a forthcoming apocalypse — whether natural disaster, [...]
PC Magazine features SteriPEN Freedom
PC Magazine writer Jennifer Bergen reviewed the new SteriPEN Freedom in their “Gadgets” section. Fresh, drinkable water is something many of us take for granted while at home. But travelers know that in certain parts of the world, the water is unsafe to drink due to harmful bacteria, viruses, and protozoa such as Giardia, [...]
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 [...]
Outdoor Retailer Roundup
Hydro-Photon, Inc. was proud to introduce the newest member of the SteriPEN family, the SteriPEN Freedom, at the 2012 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market. The Freedom is the world’s first portable, USB-rechargeable UV water purification device. Donovan Brooks, from Backpacker magazine was on hand and had this to report: SteriPEN continues to revolutionize the water purification world [...]
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 [...]
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