Hey folks, Ted here today with Exped. The Exped Megamat Duo. We make a lot of
really thick, comfortable mats and this, in this case of the duo, we actually make
one that's designed for two people. Rather than worrying about taking two
mats and tying together somehow, shifting around, we've just gone ahead and made
one big sleeping surface, that is ideal for two people. First thing you can see,
from where you're standing right there, is the profile of this mat and this is a
unique Exped feature and we call it the 3D technology. You'll notice these
vertical sidewalls all the way around the map, that allows us to have a flat
surface that goes from this side, all the way across the other side and from head
to toe. Big, flat sleeping surface allows you fill up a tent, an RV, a cabin,
whatever else. Wall-to-wall, with a beautiful sleeping surface. The other
thing we do, is we put on on the top fabric, we put a stretched Tricot Nylon and
this stretches so it conforms really nicely to hips and shoulders and elbows,
and that kind of thing. Really supportive. And underneath the Tricot Nylon,
we go ahead and use an open-cell foam that has cores that run horizontally
across here. Now this serves two purposes - it gives you a softer, more conformable
foam, but it also allows you to roll this up into a compellingly small
package, it's not something I put on my pack, but certainly no problem to throw
in the back of the car, or to take to a base camp,
rafting, canoeing, kayaking, that kind of a thing. The other thing we like to do with
all of our mats and this is across the Exped line, is we go ahead and use the
flat valve inflation and deflation technology. There are two valves, one's
the inflate valve and has this tab on, right here. And the other one's the deflate
valve. In the middle of the night if I want to go ahead and regulate the
pressure of my mattress, all I have to do is grab the tab with the, see me grab the
valve with a tab on it, pop it open, it holds air nicely and then just go ahead
and bleed a little bit of air out by pushing on the silicon flapper, on this
particular side. Pretty easy. Goes ahead and dials in the sleep comfort, lock it
back shut and you're ready to go for the rest of the night.
Deflate is done really similarly. When I want to go ahead and take this mat and
finally roll it up, I go ahead and open this up, you can hear the air bleeding
out on the other side, and I'll show you the process for actually
deflating that in just a second. Let me get back to the inflation of this mat. The
first time you take the mat out of the, out of it's stuff sack, you're going to
open up both of the flat valves, particularly inflate flat valve and you're
gonna let the mat sit for a little while, so it goes ahead and draws in some air
just with it, with the foam reconstituting itself. The first time you do it, you're
going to want to go ahead and use the mini pump that comes with the Megamat
Duo. We'll put out the inflate valve, the interface between the flat valves is
really effective, you go ahead and take that and just lock it on, right on to the
flat valve, snap it into place, like so. And then go ahead and take your hand and
go ahead and just squeeze air into the mat. The first time it'll take a few
minutes, once you've done that and you let the mat inflate all the way, lock it
back off and you're set to go. After you've done this a few times,
the mat will reconstitute itself quite effectively, you'll just use this to top
it off at the very end of the process. When I go to store the mat, simply open up the
deflate valve, take the whole mat, fold it into thirds and just use your body
weight to squeeze the air out. That'll get most of the air out. Close
the deflate valve, fold it in half and then just begin the rolling process and as
you roll the air to one end, periodically open up the deflate valve again, squeeze
out some more air by sitting on it and then close it off. Pretty simple, pretty easy
process. And when you're done, you'll have a package that looks just about like this.
It's the Megamat Duo. You've got extreme comfort for two to take any base
camp you might want to go to.