What are you buying the travellers in your family this Holiday Season?
The choices can overwhelm the unwary shopper, so to help you I’ve created this short list of five great gift ideas to make any traveller happy this year.
Rick Steves Convertible Carry-on Bag. A sturdy soft suitcase that converts into a great backpack to [...]
Tags: technology
Kevin Allgood wrote an interesting article for Brave New Traveler asking readers to consider why they need to carry a laptop on their travels. I stopped carrying a laptop when I bought my Archos 604 WiFi, it fulfills the three main functions the much heavier laptop used to do for us:
1. Stores movies to [...]
Tags: technology
Go Budget Travel asked readers if they thought a backpack is a necessary to be a backpacker traveller, and gave four good reasons to answer no and I agree, well sort of.
Backpacks (good ones) are fantastic for trekking endless miles over the terrain to be one with your environment. However, most of us are [...]
Tags: technology
You took hundreds of photos on your trip but apart from your occasional upload to Flickr or MySpace, how will you share those photos with your friends? My wife scrapbooks our travels but they are more us than our friends and family. I’ve built slide shows with Photoshop Elements but they never quite reach [...]
Tags: photography · technology
Your rich uncle is sending you on a trip but on one condition, you can only take one piece of electronic technology. What goes into your bag?
GPS?
Video camera?
Phone?
PDA?
MP3 player?
Confused, want to take it all; grab the Nokia Navigator and you do have it all and get the free trip.
I’m a real Luddite when it [...]
Tags: Uncategorized · technology
