In 2004, at the Summer Market Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, NEMO introduced its first line of backpacking and mountaineering tents.

A few months later, the company won the 2005 ISPO BrandNew Award from Munich, Germany.

[1] Later in 2005, NEMO's products were named among the best inventions of the year by Time magazine,[2] Reader's Digest,[3] Men's Journal,[4] and Popular Science.

NEMO is best known for its AirSupported Technology, which incorporates low pressure airbeams in place of traditional aluminum tent poles.

[8] NEMO has also worked with the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts on its Extreme eXPeditionary Architecture (EXP-Arch) project to create shelter concepts based on highly mobile, quickly deployable, and retractable architecture systems.