Our personal favourites are:
1. The outdoor inflatable projection screen. It self inflates in minutes and lets you watch movies anyway, reinventing the outdoor movie theatre in your own back garden (or the local park). Play content from your pocket sized projector on this professional quality screen anywhere you might end up for a relaxing evening outdoors. This model in particular was the Deluxe Airblown Inflatable Movie Screen
Available from www.gemmy.com
2. The Sky Factory eScape which gives high definition (looks like 4k) scenes of nature with sound and movement inside the home, giving more meaning to bringing the outside in. Whilst this is still an expensive venture, perhaps a bit too much so for the average buyer, it shows how technology can be used in novel ways to improve quality of life.
http://youtu.be/lBdb614wo1Y
Available from www.sky-factory.co.uk
Find out more about this episode and catch up on the latest from the show at: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gadget-man/articles/all/great-outdoors-gadgets