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April 2010 Promotion 1: For the Cool Adventurers

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by dolita

We are having a series of promotions ongoing in April. These promotions have been published in our April 2010 newsletter. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, please click here. Alternatively you could be our fan at Facebook or just follow our Twitter.

The first series in this promotion is for all adventurers, seasoned or aspiring alike. It is for people who need tough gears or those who love to look cool and hunky. Quality protective eyewears, headlamps and navigation compasses are now selling at special price. Only at Apple Bazaar.

1. ESS Eyewears Collections

We have mentioned Crossbow here, and CDI here before. Both posts have a video unboxing the two cool eyewears. Now we are revealing more ESS Collections promotions. For limited time only, while stock last. Just click on the pictures below to go to our store to get the promo.

ESS Ice 2x Naro promo  ESS Advancer V12 promoESS CDI High Adrenaline promo  ESS_Crossbow promo

2. Silva L Series Headlamps

Silva high quality L series headlamps are now on special offers. Great for outdoors, exercise, or even for usage around your home. Versatile headlamps for every purposes imaginable. While stocks last. View the picture to look at what is on offer and click it to start shopping at Apple Bazaar store now. We are sorry that L2 Camo is sold out during this promotion.


3. Silva and Cammenga Compasses

These compasses are a star among fields and outdoor adventurers. Little needs to be said as their quality speaks for themselves. Now they are going at 15% off, a special for this promotion. Click the picture, choose your compass at our store, apply coupon code: compass15 just before checking out to get your desired compasses.

Silva Compasses Cammenga Compass

We had done a guide on how to use coupon code before. Click here to find out how.

Next will be promotion for the Travelers. Whether you are traveling out of country or just traveling to work/ school, it will be worth it to check out. There will be some electronics accessories also.

Trekking with a Silva Compass

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by Lena

A five-day trek to Point Lenana in Mt. Kenya National Park can be done with or without porters and tour guides but without a map, an array of gadgets or even the sun and the moon, one can surely get lost. 

According to a research scientist, Jan Souman, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, people do walk in circles and have a tendency to get lost without the proper training and equipment.  The scientist and his team sent test subjects out in a German forest and the Sahara desert to find out if they could walk in a straight line.  One group were set out on sunny days and another group on cloudy days and at night.  The groups were observed via GPS over the course of hours.  Those walking under the sun kept a relatively straight course but once the sun was out, they began to walk aimlessly even though they believed they maintained their pace.

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