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The 411: Successfully Funded - The Lego's of Pop-Up Tents

Found on: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cinch-the-world-s-smartest-pop-up-tent-camping-solar#/

Solar power, climate control and world-beating hugeness are joined in 2018 by panoramic interior doors, phone-controlled LED lighting and over a dozen user-driven design changes. Packed with features, it pops up in seconds and is down inside a minute, making camping convenient, intelligent and fun. And: for 2018, we’re introducing a new member of the Cinch family - THE HUB, a pop up living area with all the Cinch smarts.

Meet the pop-up tent that has revolutionised camping, making it smarter, cooler and hassle free. Our fourth-generation CINCH! POP-UP has everything that has made it such a crowdfunding favourite and much, much more. In 2018, industry-leading quality, world-beating hugeness and technological innovation are joined by a dozen user-inspired design changes including…

• Panoramic inner doors, allowing you to use every inch of the inner tent space as your living area
• A completely enclosed groundsheet, meaning every Cinch is no-bug zone
• Smartphone controlled interior LED lighting system

Our newest innovation is a super-versatile pop up living area that provides standing room for the tallest of campers, multi-tent connectivity, solar power mounting, heat regulation and LED lighting. A place to stretch out, relax and share some time, it pitches in seconds and makes any campsite a home. Perfect for completing the Cinch campsite setup, or even as a standalone retreat for beach-trips or live events.

This year’s solar power pack is true world-beater, pulling enough juice from the sun to power your most demanding gadgets.

• CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY Pulling in a whopping 21 watts of power, our panels are strong and smart enough to charge your USB gadgets straight from the sun, with innovative technology allowing the panel to manage environmental conditions and deliver the best charge.
• BIG POWER Our portable power pack punches in at 13,000MAH - the equivalent of six full iPhone 7 charges. It comes with fast charging technology, 2 regular USB and even a type C port, ready for the latest laptops and phones.
• COMPLETE INTEGRATION All-new rooftop ports store the solar panel inside the tent, keeping it dry, secure and accessible. With no need for external ports, your Cinch is 100% sealed off from the outside world. Higher power pockets in the inner tent also mean shorter wires and much less fiddling.

‘KEEPS THE KIDS IN BETTER MOODS WITH BETTER SLEEP’ - Customer Survey

Simmering Summer seasons are what camping is all about - if only it wasn’t for the hot, stuffy, airless mornings that leave you feeling like a bowl of lobster bisque. Fear not: our Climate Control Canopy spells the end of the 6AM stickies. This lightweight radiant barrier stretches easily over the tent, leaving your interior significantly cooler and deliciously darker - perfect for a refreshing morning lie in, a place to chill in the afternoon, or even a creche for baby camps. The two sides of this year’s Climate Control Canopy provide extra-strength cover against the elements - keep it cooler with the silver or dim the lights with the dark side.

We’ve been making the Cinch since 2009, when innovator Jake Jackson saw a better way to camp. In a market flooded with disposable, cheaply-built pop-ups that packed down like a troop of monkeys into a teacup, his idea was both simple and ambitious. A tent to make camping smart, fun and easy without sucking away your time, money and sanity.

The first Cinch was born in Jake’s garage (his mum’s, actually) - a reliable pop-up with a porch and a painstaking labour of love he worked on for so long that that his friends wondered where he’d disappeared to. It wasn’t long before he was making tents for them, and then their friends, and their friends’ friends, always refining, improving and amending. 

Since launching to the world in 2014 the Cinch has gone on to redefine expectations of the pop up, evolving to incorporate all of the weather-proofing, durability and quality of a high-spec dome tent, adding modern technologies in solar power, LED and heat-regulating materials and creating functionality and versatility with the extended canopy, the pop up living area and modular interiors.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of the incredible Cinch community, whose support and feedback has shaped the product we make today. From Portland to Peterborough, Iceland to Indonesia and Singapore to Syracuse, the crowdfunding community have backed us from day one, propelling the Cinch to every corner of the globe.

Now we’re back, with a smarter Cinch than ever before and a complete kit that is ready for every adventure. Become part of our story and help us change camping forever. We can’t do it without you!

We’ve spent almost a decade perfecting our pop-up and this year is no different. The 2018 Cinch  features refinements inspired by our fabulous crowdfunders and the way they camp plus design expertise plus plus inspiration. Here’s some of this year’s biggest changes:

Size was our first consideration when designing the Cinch range. Why should you have to compromise on space, for the convenience of a pop-up? Why not have both? Our tents have a huge internal living area, with two large porches that double up as storage areas. The tent then packs down into a disc-shaped rucksack containing the complete kit and, weighing in at just 7kg for the 2-man Cinch.