A terrific roof-top tent – and four other folding gadgets

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The idea of pitching a tent on the roof of your car has been knocking around since the 1950s, but has only latterly begun to shrug off its eccentricity. In the UK, at least, that’s largely down to Southampton-based TentBox and its founders, brothers Ollie and Neill Shurville. “About 10 years ago we were…