I’ve been meaning to make a post about why an iPod is a must have gadget for your camping trips. Okay, maybe not must have, but a darn useful one.

However, I still haven’t gotten that far and I came across this little gadget today and I just had to share.

Now don’t get too excited just yet because much like yesterday’s Catchu Camera Frisbee, this thing is still only in the prototype phase but it’s cool nonetheless.

One of the biggest problems with taking electronics with you on a camping trip is that the batteries tend to die. You either need a charger or spare batteries.

And that’s what makes the REGEN Yo-Yo MP3 player so cool. To power this MP3 player all you need to be able to do are 10-12 tosses and you’ll get about an hour’s worth of play time.

And you can yo-yo and listen to music at the same time thanks to a wireless bluetooth headset.

This thing probably isn’t an iPod killer seeing as how it can only hold 200 or so songs, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a cool idea and one that could come in handy on a camping trip when batteries and power tend to be in short supply.

(sorry, no video for your viewing pleasure today, but if you know of one where we can see this thing in action, please be sure to post it in the comments.)

When packing entertainment for your camping trip, what do you normally take? Beer? Cards? Horseshoes? A Frisbee?

I think that a frisbee is one of those fun and super cheap toys you can bring along for entertainment and it doesn’t even require beer to make it fun. (although there’s certainly no rule that says you can’t have a beer when playing frisbee.)

Anyway, perhaps you’ve been thinking that your frisbee just isn’t cool enough or if your a gadget geek like I am, perhaps you just feel like there isn’t enough technology packed into a frisbee.

Well, my friend, your calls for a more geeked up frisbee have been answered.

The Catchu Camera Frisbee comes with a camera equipped so you can take so you can “ride along” with the frisbee. You can actually get some pretty cool footage with the thing.

It was designed by Adam Stucliffe and its been designed to record 20 minutes of video. It isn’t available for purchase yet - it’s still in the prototype stage, but you can learn more about the Catchu here.

Rather than me trying to explain this nifty little gizmo anymore - here is a video of the frisbee in action (it takes about 30 seconds for them to go to the on board camera view):

Wrapping things up this week, I figured this would be a great time to post this how to video we recently did on geocaching. I love it because it combines geeky technology (gps) with treasure hunting.

Dorrie’s been posting about geocaching a bunch recently so you can get caught up on just what the heck geocaching is on her “what is geocaching” post and “my first geocache” post.

In the video I cover how to get coordinates for geocaches near you, how to get them into your GPS unit, and then how to follow your GPS to get you close to the cache.

One thing to keep in mind is that a GPS unit is really only accurate to about 30 or 40 feet so once you get really close to where the cache is supposed to be hidden, it’s time to start thinking about where you’d hide the hidden “treasure” if you were doing it.

Hope you enjoyed cool non essential technology week. Dorrie’s back next week and who knows what rockin’ cool stuff she’s got in store for you.

Let me know what you think of the video. If you like it, we just might do more. (hint, use the comments button below)