Car seats and baby strollers are some of the most important purchases parents will make for their children. In this episode of Gear Daddy, Daddy Troy checks out a travel system from Orbit Baby. This infant system features a car seat, carseat base, and a stroller frame. It adjusts as your child grows and holds three different sears including an infant car seat, toddler car seat, and a bassinet. This system is great for baby travel and moms and dads are sure to appreciate all its great features. DadLabs Ep. 559 is brought to you by BabyBjorn.

DADDY TROY: Welcome back to DadLabs. I'm Daddy Troy. Today I'm with Vivian of Orbit Baby and we're gonna tell you about the Orbit Travel System. They're amazing carriers and strollers and if you ever see one of these on the street, you'll never forget it. In fact, you might have even seen one on The Office. Stick around, we'll tell you all about it.

Daddy Troy: So one of the first things you notice when you look at an Orbit stroller or an Orbit carseat is that they have this little ring where all of the bases attach. Now what this. You're gonna love this dads. When you go to put your baby in, you just set him or her down right there, buckle him or her in, and then you simply do this. Check it out.

Vivian: So this is the three-piece Orbit infant system. It comes with an infant car seat, the car seat base that does into the car, and the stroller frame. Take the infant car seat right out and I'm going to show you this carseat base installs. It's very easy. So all you have to do if you take the latch belt that is included with your base, put it into the latch anchors in your car, route it through here, clip this in, and then tighten this knob.

Daddy Troy: Okay, and I know that sometimes I will take my children and put them in other people's cars or the grandparents car and I'm a little bit worried that they put in the carseat wrong. How do I make sure that my parents or another friend doesn't put this in incorrectly.

Vivian: It's very simple actually because of the circular interface. You really can dock it in from any angle. You try and go this way, it's just gonna not let you go any further. The only way to do it is to go rear. And that's the only way it locks in.

Daddy Troy: I noticed some color coding as well. It's red when it's no go.

Vivian: That's right. Exactly. There's an indicator window that will tell you if it's red, you can't go. When you click it in, it turns black.

Daddy Troy: So the infant car seat goes right under the stroller?

Vivian: That's correct. And as you can see, as I'm holding it, it's very ergonomic because of these side carrying handles. I'm able to tuck in my elbows, dock it in from any angle, and just rotate. And you'll see again that it locks rear-facing. It also locks sideway-facing for the restaurant so you can pull up to a restaurant table, and get the handles out of the way.

Daddy Troy: And actually have eye contact with your kid.

Vivian: Exactly.

Daddy Troy: I love it.

Vivian: Another great feature of the infant car seat is that we have a paparazzi shield which is great for shielding your baby from the sun.

Daddy Troy: Unwanted photographers?

Vivian: Or for nosy fingers.

Daddy Troy: And it looks like for this particular stroller, you've got adjustable handles for really tall people. Is that right? Look how tall those go. These are some of the tallest I've seen actually at the show. I love it. Now, once my kid gets a little older, we replace the infant seat with a?

Vivian: With a toddler stroller seat. We also have a toddler car seat that we place in the car.

Daddy Troy: All they'll both all mount on this as well.

Vivian: Exactly.

Daddy Troy: So this is the stroller seat right? And this thing not only turns but it also will tilt like you just did.

Vivian: That's right. With just one hand, I'll squeeze a lever and it'll recline. It has this great bento box that has a lid on it. It also has this great adjustable footrest.

Daddy Troy: And tell me about the suspension on this particular stroller model. Independent suspension on each wheel, is that right?

Vivian: Yes, each wheel has 4 shock absorbers actually. It's called Quad Shock. It's a new technology that we've developed and basically each wheel has 4 shock absorbers that really absorb the energy when you're going down curbs. So there's 4 of them, so there's actually 16 shock absorbers and that's 4 times most other strollers have.

Daddy Troy: Now there's one more type seat that will go under this unit. Is that right?

Vivian: That's right.

Daddy Troy: This is the bassinet right here.

Vivian: Yes, and it too also will rotate.

Daddy Troy: So you can have eye contact with your kid.

Vivian: Exactly.

Daddy Troy: And the soft carrying handle makes it easier to carry and keep the kid balanced as opposed to a hard one.

Vivian: Exactly. What we did was we saw that a lot of parents tended to carry carseats in the crook of their arm and a lot of your core strength is in the center of your body so this feels a lot more comfortable. And actually what you're able to do, just as with the infant car seat is that you're able to pick it up with one hand.

Daddy Troy: And this packs up all nice and neatly.

Vivian: Yeah, so this is super compact. We also have a Mini here today. It's in the back trunk of that. And you'll also see that this packs up extremely compactly.

Daddy Troy: I know another thing for parents is storage. You guys have a very unique storage system.

Vivian: That's right, so we have this removable cargo pod. You just pull it right out, you can actually pull it over your arm like this. It has a one-handed open. You can open it, you got wipes here, you got bottle holders, another wipe compartment. You can close it right up.

Daddy Troy: It just slides right in. We'll show our audience how it slides right in. Well Vivian thanks so much. These strollers are really amazing. I think guys can, especially dads, can really geek out on these things especially in terms of the engineering and moms will also find them hugely functional. Well, Orbit Baby, where can they find out about Orbit Baby?

Vivian: Go to orbitbaby.com and you'll find a list of retailers there, and you'll also find good product information.

Daddy Troy: Great. Thanks so much Vivian. We'll see you next week on DadLabs.com.