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Sleep In Bag
When travelling in malaria prone areas, one often has to sacrifice the pleasures of sleeping outdoors for sleeping inside a stuffy covered tent or a built structure of sorts for fear of catching Malaria. In so doing travelers lose out on the experiencing the night-sky, the stars, the cool breeze, the smells and textures of travel. The sleep-in-bag aims to address this issue – Sleeping under the night-time stars Malaria worry-free.
The concept of the Sleep-in-bag is to combine a sleeping bag with the function of a mosquito net to enable people to sleep under the stars in tropical areas without catching malaria.
The idea borrows technologies from dome-tent design and materials in that the mosquito net is combined into the function of a dome-tent. This “mosquito-net-tent” is attached to the stuff-bag of a traditional sleeping bag and wraps around it simply and functionally.
This unravels when thrown out on the ground. Light-weight fold-out aluminum poles stored inside the bag are used to erect the mosquito-tent. One simply takes out the sleeping bag, unzips the entrance and places the sleeping bag inside.
It is envisaged that this product could be used by travelers, aid workers, slack-packers, overlanders and car-campers travelling in tropical areas where there is a threat of Malaria.
Or it can be used just to keep the bugs out at night!