I just found a great site that is chock full of gizmos, gadgets, and gear, that will will make a traveler wonder how they ever lived without that item. The Travelsmart folks shop the world to bring you practical travel-friendly merchandise at a discount — so you can move about in style and without paying…
As a Food/Wine/Travel writer, I’m often sent new products to review. Sometimes they make the cut and sometimes they get sent to Goodwill. (Like the blowup body cushion that was supposed to “turn my coach seat into a first-class travel experience” and almost got me kicked off the plane when I couldn’t disconnect it from…
Dell is at it again setting trends with their new “Display Portâ€?, which is a paper-thin concept monitor. This monitor is going to blow the competition away. The very sleek design fool coupled with the better video quality than your home television. About 4x HDTV clarity and it will act like a central hub for…
Who says you can never be too thin? The next generation of the ultraslim Razr cellphone is here. The RAZR2 is slimmer (11.9mm), has improved CrystalTalk sound quality, PC-like Web browsing, email functionality, 120 minutes of video capture, multi-shot photography, storage for up to 1,000 songs, and an mp3 player you control on a larger…
I love gadgets and want to carry as few as possible when I travel. My laptop, cell phone , iPod and PDA are what I schlep. What do you bring along, risking hernias and precious storage space below the airline seat in front of you? Here’s a list of the top five “comfort luxury” items…
This phone is not yet a reality, but it may one of the most stylish imaginary gadgets I have seen in some time. It seems a bit rubik-cubish, but also contains some practicality. Every face of the phone carries a keypad, microphone, and speaker. The part you touch first gets active while all other edges…
Cingular Wireless, Samsung Telecom America and Microsoft have collaborated to present a terrific holiday present: the new Samsung BlackJack. It’s ultra-thin. It runs on Windows Mobile 5.0. It has a fully integrated QWERTY keyboard. It features a large, high-res WVGA color screen. And it wants to be the next Blackberry/Treo-type device for multitasking road warriors…
I have a hard plastic case for my iPod. I’ve written about bejeweled cases. Now, there’s an iWood case from Miniot carved from one piece of hardwood and available with your monogram on the top. Choose from maple, walnut, mahogany, cherry or oak. Cost is 75 € and up. [Via www.goodgoodthings.com.]
You’ve opened a costly bottle of wine and started pouring it into a glass. But a few precious drops drop onto your white tablecloth, or worse, onto your guest’s sleeve. What can you do? Buy the Drop Stop Wine Pourer for a dripless pour. Often seen in restaurants and at bars, it’s a flexible, silver-colored…
Those 5.5 million people who are addicted to their “CrackBerrys” have another reason to rejoice. The BlackBerry Pearl, Research in Motion’s newest multimedia device, will be introduced next Tuesday. It will contain RIM’s first camera (a 1.3 MP camera with flash and zoom), an MP3 player, a video player, along with their notable e-mail, text…
Men: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Coming to a rest room near you is a device that will speak to you as you stand to relieve yourself. Wizmark, the Interactive Urinal Communicator, developed by Healthquest Technologies, Inc. in New York, will promote anti-drunken driving messages by “talking, singing or flashing a string of lights around…
Notice a new category here at Vagablond? Introducing Shopping.vagablond.com, where we’ll tell you about the greatest new gadgets, fashionable clothing, stylish stuff to accessorize your outfit, and much more. Since Apple is the epitome of cutting edge, it’s only appropriate that we kick off this section with the Nike iPod. Through a partnership between these…