Travoca's Award-Winning Off-Grid E-Cooler, by Industrial Designer Dave Gibson (opens in new tab)

Industrial designer Dave Gibson specializes in outdoor gear; indeed, he's a Professor of Outdoor Product and Industrial Design at Utah State University. Gibson was recently tapped by Travoca, a Milwaukee-based outfit that makes overlanding equipment, to design a different sort of cooler. The result is their Rigel+ eCooler: While it resembles a traditional cooler in appearance, this thing has a Toshiba compressor wedged inside; it functions as a full-blown refrigerator/freezer and is aimed at ...