Meet Fogo, the only gadget that includes GPS, bluetooth, voice and text messaging, a USB backup battery, and a powerful LED flashlight. Have peace of mind knowing you have a flashlight, GPS, and walkie-talkie with you wherever you go! Whether you’re biking or hiking, fishing or hunting, navigating or camping, the Fogo keeps you safe and lightens your load.
Engadget: “Ordinarily, the term ‘smart flashlight’ would make me cringe as much as the next person, but having seen the Fogo flashlight first-hand, I’m sold.”
Techcrunch: “Fogo has a fun vision to take a standard consumer device, and pack it full of intelligence and capability.”
Outside Magazine: “Don’t be fooled: The Fogo, with its 1,000-lumen LED bulb, looks like your average flashlight, but there’s so much more hiding under its sleek, waterproof exterior.”
GearJunkie: “The Fogo is unlike anything we’ve seen. It stood out as an innovation and a great idea with potential to minimize the number of gadgets you need to bring along.”
Gearcaster: “The ultimate outdoor gadget you never knew you wanted.”
Whether you’re at the campsite or on the hunt, the Fogo is there for you.
Get off the beaten path and keep safe while exploring.
Uphill, downhill, or cross country, the Fogo was made to ride.
One of the most exciting features of the Fogo is the SmartCap interface. The SmartCap is an end cap on the Fogo that comes off with a simple twist and allows you to do many things, including:
More SmartCaps are in the works, including a satellite modem, laser range finder and avalanche beacon. These future SmartCaps will allow all Fogo users to add this capability!
Weight: 0.44lbs(198g) / 0.56lbs(255g) with batteries
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When you’re on an adventure, space and weight are precious. The Fogo was designed to be feature complete, so you can save room in your bag and stay safe on the trail.
Fogo Feature Summary:
Walkie-Talkie SmartCap Feature Summary:
Bonus Features:
Fogo includes the following accessories:
The Fogo also includes your choice of reflector (add $15 to your pledge to get both):
Up to 2 Fogos can be ordered at the Super Early Bird level. Up to 4 Fogos can be ordered at the Early Bird level. There is no limit at the regular level. Just multiply your pledge by the number you want!
*IMPORTANT NOTE FOR BUILD TO ORDER: TEXT MESSAGING OVER RADIO option must be added when adding WALKIE-TALKIE SMARTCAP
Stretch Goal #1: $80K 1200 Lumen LED Upgrade
If we hit $80K in funding, we will upgrade the LED from the Cree XM-L2 to the Cree XP-L. The higher efficiency XP-L outputs up to 1226 lumens compared to 1058 for the XM-L2. Plus the XP-L gives the Fogo a 10% improvement in battery life.
Stretch Goal #2: $125K Free Lantern attachment
If we hit $125K in funding, we will include a lantern attachment will all Fogo for no additional charge. The lantern attachment will be great for camping. It will spread the light out in the tent or at the campsite. If you are curious as to what a lantern attachment might look like, see these examples.
Fogo has an upgradeable app based OS. You can load apps on the Fogo using the Fogo Hub. The following apps will come pre-installed on the Fogo.
Activity The Activity app allows you to track your ride, run, or hike using the built-in GPS. You can also see real-time metrics like speed, distance, and travel time. When riding at night, the Fogo can automatically adjust light brightness based on speed. It can also switch automatically between road mode (flashing) and trail mode (solid).
Clock The Clock app provides basic watch functionality including a stopwatch, timer, and alarm.
Compass The Compass app gives you a magnetic heading using the tilt-compensated ecompass.
Flashlight The Flashlight app gives you classic flashlight modes such as low, medium, high and strobe.
Maps The Maps app allows you to view simple maps as well as navigate from waypoint-to-waypoint. An night, the flashlight can automatically blink to keep you on course. The light will also adjust automatically based on whether you are looking at the ground in front of you (low-beam) or at objects in the distance (high-beam).
Maps can be created using online hiking or biking sites (bikemap.net or Google Earth). You can also convert Activity tracks to Maps.
Messages The Messages app allows you to send voice and text messages to other Fogo users. You can also view the messages on a map which shows the sender’s location.
This has been an amazing journey for us, and we are excited to get the Fogo into your hands. The most important part of this project is delivering a great product to our backers!
We have worked hard on the Fogo and leveraged our personal experience as product designers to produce a sound design and solid user experience. As engineers, we have first hand experience with the many risks and challenges in bringing a hardware project to fruition. Our promise to you, our backers, is to tirelessly apply our obsessive attention to detail and hard earned experience in manufacturing to overcoming the hurdles.
We have approached this project conservatively and added padding to our delivery schedule to allow for the unknown unknowns. We promise to keep you up to date on our progress during and after the campaign. Rest assured that we are working hard to deliver a high quality product to you on time.