New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in seconds

Re:New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in sec... by v13inc on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:33PM (#5747464)

I think it is extremely misleading to summarize this technology as just "exploiting pressure differences for inflation". Technically isn't it impossible to inflate something without exploiting pressure differences?

Back to the OP -- this technology looks like a legitimate advance compared to all the valve technologies I have used previusly for camping. Inflating a mattress is a pretty small part of setting up a campsite, however, and I am not sure inflating a mattress is annoying enough to warrant a new purchase, for me at least.

I am really curious to see where they apply this technology in the future.

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Re:New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in sec... by v13inc on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:41PM (#5747511)

This comment from Zmetta [1] does a good job of explaining the physics without attempting to reduce them to an ad-hominem attack.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5743500

Edit: typos

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Re:New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in sec... by JohnHaugeland on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:05PM (#5758767)

You could use springs, in sort of a reverse bellows effect.

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