You want to spend your summer vacation hiking or white water rafting. Or you want to hit the slopes for some skiing in the winter (whether in January, or now in Chile). And you’d like to capture action from those adventures with pictures or video to post to your Facebook or other online site.

But few cameras can withstand the elements or abuse – or aren’t easily handled by a single user who’s trying to shoot images and navigate the terrain.

At Danburg Properties of Boca Raton, we’re always on the hunt for technology that can simplify life for our commercial, office or warehouse tenants, whether in the workplace – or while on vacation. When it comes to shooting high-definition video or stills while out and about, we think we’ve found the answer.

A Danburg blogger recently was on vacation in North Carolina and decided to raft the French Broad River. The outfitter warned all patrons to leave their iPhones and other digital cameras and devices behind, unless they were waterproof – or the owner was OK losing them to the river bottom.

Enter the IronX digital action camera. This digital device is a pint-sized beast of a adventure sports accessory. Easy to set up and use, it captures stills and videos in crisp, hi-definition resolution. Its plastic case is durable enough to withstand some abuse and pounding, and the bracket was easily attached to the crown of the blogger’s helmet with included double-sided 3M tape. It wasn’t going anywhere the blogger didn’t go.

One of the best advances with the IronX is remote accessibility. Download the IronX smart phone app to get near full control of the camera. This was especially useful when affixing a camera that has no built-in view screen. The app turns the phone into a view screen.

The second innovation is the watch-like controller. Once synchronized, just push the Video or Photograph button on the controller to shoot a still or start the video; push it again to stop videoing. One problem: The “wearer” of the camera has no way to know if the video started – or even stopped. We missed a couple of good sequences because of this.

Another tip to the IronX folks: Next iteration, include a small digital watch on the “watch.” It would be a nice addition to those who rely on smart phones to be their time pieces, too, but are compelled to leave them behind.

In all, the IronX is a great action sports camera. With various mounting options, including the lengthy strip of Velcro that came with the $249 package, the mounting bracket can be secured to any number of objects: a helmet, the handlebars of a bike, the bow of a raft or kayak, or a pole some skiers have used to give a back-facing POV looking back at themselves while on the slopes. Bands even use the device to capture or stream their performances .

Like any tech, the IronX takes a little work to master – nothing a few hours one morning before an outing won’t solve.

The images, though, will last a lifetime – even longer, once posted to your Facebook.