The great outdoors can provide a relaxing reprieve from city life, but not if you spend all your time worrying about bears invading your camp. So even though it’s designed for military use, this radar-in-a-backpack kit should provide ample peace of mind when roughing it.
The kit weighs less than 20 pounds when packed away, but when you’ve settled on a place to pop your tent, it can be setup in just three minutes. And once it’s running, it will scan a 150 acre area for movement, reporting its finds to an included wireless tablet that shows the radar signal overlaid on map imagery so it’s easier to pinpoint an intruder.
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Some might say that using this portable radar kit outside of military applications is a little overkill. But they’ve probably never had a bag of marshmallows nicked by a racoon. Nothing spoils a camping trip more than marshmallow-less s’mores, so consider this undoubtedly expensive kit insurance for a perfect weekend away. [SpotterRF via Popular Science]
