You know that feeling when you wake up in a tent in the middle of the night, most likely at a festival, and you are freezing cold? The simple solution is to throw as many clothes on as possible, gently drifting back off to sleep surrounding by the occasional snores, chatter and obnoxiously loud drunken chants of fellow festival goers. Come morning, it’s 6AM and you’ve sweated through all the layers of clothes you threw over yourself in a lackluster, half-dazed state only two hours prior.
Well, one Kickstarter campaign is doing its best to counteract all of the above.
The Siesta4 is marketed as the world’s first heat reflective, light blocking tent. Having already met a third of its $100,000 target in a couple of days, it aims to counteract being woken up by the first sign of light or by inhuman temperatures. Sleeping four people, it is lined by a brand new light-reflecting fabric. It also contains USB powered fans that cool the tent if required.
“Having camped in a number of warm climates including Australia, Southern Europe, California and Nevada, I realised there was huge potential for a heat reflective tent,” says Gareth Price, the Founder of Outback Logic LLC. “We’ve spent the past year developing the concept into a commercially viable product and now we need to raise the capital to bring the Siesta4 to market.”
For more information, and to pre-order the tent, head to Kickstarter.