Half of the world’s population cooks on open fires. Often this cooking happens indoors, on open fires without chimneys. Open fires consume a lot of wood. They also produce smoke and other toxic gasses that dangerously pollute the air inside of these homes. The BioLite stove’s efficient process uses less than 50 percent wood of an open fire and reduces smoke emissions by more than 90 percent.

Now you can support the BioLite-project – and buy the BioLite CampStove for your adventures on the road. And believe it or not: you can charge with fire your iPhone and other USB-chargeable devices such as GPS, LED lights etc.

The BioLite CampStove, designed for outdoor adventure and emergency preparedness, makes cooking on wood as clean, safe and easy as petroleum fuels while powering electronics off-grid.

The BioLite CampStove burns sticks, pine cones, pellets and other biomass. Forget the fuel. The stove cook your meals with nothing but the twigs you collect on your journey, eliminating the need for heavy, expensive, polluting fuel.

While you cook, the BioLite CampStove transfers heat from one side of the device to the other side against the temperature gradient, the temperature difference produces electricity. With the so-called Peltier effect you can charge with fire (!) your iPhone and other USB-chargeable devices such as GPS, LED lights etc.

The Biolite CampStove is as big as a water bottle and weighs 935 grams. It costs only 129 U.S. dollars and can be preordered now. Shipping for camping season 2012.

Another good reason for buying:

The sale of the BioLite CampStove help to support the one-time market establishment costs for the HomeStove. This is not charity, but simply the capital needed to incubate self-sustained energy access for the people who need it most.

After the success of Or Glory 21st Century Rockers, acclaimed photographer Horst A. Friedrichs captures the spirit of The Rockers Jacket in modern times. First coming into its own as a symbol of youth rebellion in the  50s, the Leather jacket continues to fascinate as much for its beauty as its mythology. The leather jacket belongs to that select group of garments that can be described as iconic. No other western garment has been individualized that much, expressing the soul of who it belongs. The book features new exclusive pictures from the Lewis leathers vintage jacket collection. Iconic leather jackets never seen before, but also showing the contemporary replicas by Lewis Leathers.

Release in August 2012

«Pride & Glory. The Rocker’s Jacket»
Photographer: Horst A. Friedrichs

Standard Edition:
400 pages hardcover with jacket, 28 x 35,5 cm
95.00 €
ISBN 978-3-942597-20-3

Limited Edition with original print:
Leather-bound with studs and badges
950,00 €
ISBN 978-3-942597-21-0

My Ural on the ferry across the Lake Constance from Switzerland to Germany. With snow and rain, we are almost the only passengers - and the visibility is zero.

«KIEV dieselpunk hovercraft» von Alexey Lipatov. Der ukrainische Designer Alexey Lipatov ist ein Künstler des Steampunk, der als literarische Strömung in den 1980er Jahren begann und sich zu einem Kunstgenre, einer kulturellen Bewegung, einem Stil und einer Subkultur ausgeweitet hat. Der Retro-Look entsteht durch die Verknüpfung futuristischer Technik mit der Ästhetik der 1920er- bis 1950er-Jahre.