upgrade_remoteControl_article1.jpgBuilt to military specs, the wide-screen Panasonic Toughbook 52 has components worthy of the wispiest IT nerd, stuffed into a burly magnesium alloy case.

$1,649

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If you’re too clueless to read the
Suunto X6M Black’s compass or altimeter when lost, it’ll still look pretty around your lifeless wrist.

$499

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Garmin’s Rino 530HCx two-way radio is highly sensitive—like you—and if your buddy has one, you can see each other’s location on-screen.

$500

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The DirecTV Sat-Go portable 17-inch LCD TV looks like a suitcase but unfolds to get down to real business: watching The Jeffersons on a Moab mountaintop.

$1,499

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Need juice? Xantrex’s XPower Powerpack Solar pulls up to five watts from the sun and willpower a laptop, so you can peep porn around the campfire.

$169