Comments on: Top Ten Essential Travel Gadgets

By: Gerber Tool

Gerber Tool — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:17:31 +0000

Nice comments. I agree with you when you say that leatherman has good quality especially for their mutli knives tool. Although you can deny Gerber knives reputation

By: Chris Hutcherson

Chris Hutcherson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:38:11 +0000

Does anyone else worry that the Nano 4 feels too light and is so thin that it will easily break ?

By: Adrienn

Adrienn — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:06:23 +0000

My career requires me to catch a red eye 4 days a week. These travel gadgets are essentials when I’m on the go. I recently bought a Pelican Case at

http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/product/Pelican-1510-Laptop-Overnight-Case.html

The 1510 overnight case is awesome for traveling. Perfect size for my belongings and small enough for a carry on!

By: Franko Damian

Franko Damian — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:57:46 +0000

Wow! You carry a lot of goodies with you. Me I can’t travel without my iPod nano. It may be small but it’s so convenient and it weighs less, so less the hassle. There are also some widgets and gadgets in this site http://www.widgetsandgadgets.com/ that I could probably bring with me when I go on a traveling spree.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:25:10 +0000

Kensington make a plug adapter that also includes a usb jack. It will charge ipods, mobile phones etc and still works as a plug adapter. I found mine incredibly useful.

By: A long way Ahead Travel-Link-Love «

A long way Ahead Travel-Link-Love « — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:35:30 +0000

[...] March 28th, 2007 — apu If you thought travelling light was the best way to go, check out Dethroner’s recommendations on the top ten “essential” travel gadgets, essential being the operative [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:14:21 +0000

Do you have a newletter? I would really love that. Thanks!!

By: Listerate » Blog Archive » Top Ten Essential Travel Gadgets

Listerate » Blog Archive » Top Ten Essential Travel Gadgets — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:39:10 +0000

[...] Top Ten Essential Travel Gadgets at Dethroner Some good ones, but none are really “essential” – you won’t die, or suffer without these, really ;) What use is an apple airport when there is no internet, for one? [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:57:05 +0000

If your going to travel with anything thats important to you, you should consider transporting your stuff in a bag with anti-theft features. I use a pacsafe metrosafe 300 to carry my laptop, PSP, digital camera and phone and can be assured that my stuff is safe. check out http://www.pacsafe.com

By: Big Al

Big Al — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:19:17 +0000

“This is a real travel gadget that no one should leave home without.

http://www.solio.com/v2/”

Spoken for the truth, thanks to one little device i can charge my ipod, my cell phone, my camera, and my PSP, not sunny? no problem, it comes with all the travel adaptors you could shake a stick at to charge the internal battery from the mains. Its proven to be that useful on trips that i own two. Do i need to charge up that many gadgets at once? nope, but i can promise you that who ever i’m travelling with will want to borrow it. And it doesnt hurt to leave one on charge in the sun and one out with you powering yer travel speakers

Also…
http://www.grilliput.com/01en_grilliput_start.php Because everyone needs BBQ’d meat.

Keyring essentials…Swiss Tech Utili-key, Swiss Tech 8-1, and Photon Light Freedom

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:52:05 +0000

“My AirPort Express has gotten a room full of cranky trade show reporters online more times than I would have ever imagined.”

LIES! LIES!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:29:57 +0000

The Nera Satcom is pretty cool. I actually used one to pretty much do what you described, aside from the being eaten by locals part. After hurricane Ivan leveled us, I busted out the Nera Satcom from the pelican case and “borrowed” a laptop and posted an “im OK, alive, dirty, hungry and thirsty but alive” type hello-world blog post from the tarmac.

After that and a quick call to my mother to stop her crying because she saw my name on a missing persons list, I went back and reported to my boss that the system was operational and had been tested :)

http://shrinkster.com/mes is the actual post :)

By: Anders Ansar

Anders Ansar — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:10:08 +0000

I am into traveling Ultra Light: From 90 grams, 15 items – all in pockets.
Of the suggested items I have the compass – much smaller though.
I did needed a pair of pliers the other day. Borrowed from my hotel.

See http://home.swipnet.se/ansar/ul-comp/

By: jtow

jtow — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:50:59 +0000

This is a real travel gadget that no one should leave home without.

http://www.solio.com/v2/

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MyAppleStuff » What Caught My Eye Last Week - 26/02 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:14:47 +0000

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By: BigRugby

BigRugby — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:46:27 +0000

I work in Anbar province in Iraq, trying to build more than is blown up. Living and working here can be arduous at times, but gadgets are everywhere, making life just that much more bearable.

leatherman – from opening your scrumptious MRE to repairing you damaged helmet, a utility tool is good to have

Ipod / PSP – I have the ipod nano for whiling away the hours between flights, but the Nokia internet tablet is looking good. Music, ebooks and games… also works as a nightlight! I use etimotic inside the ear earphones, which double as hearing protection on military flights.

Plug adapter – here we have every plug on earth, so traveling without one means cutting off the plug and fiddling bare wires into the socket. Not recommended.

Camera – A quality point and shoot captures the family moments, but better still, instead of writing stuff down on a scrap of never to be found again paper, just take a photo of it and read it of the cameras LCD.

I suppose working in Iraq is unique, as wherever you travel, there is always bottled water, food and power. Usually there is some sort of transport, so suitcases and wheeled luggage work, and helmet and body armor are much easier to cope with when you can take them off and haul them around on the luggage (same with the guns)

By: ric_at_rice

ric_at_rice — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:26:59 +0000

problem with this article is that travel is not defined. it could be business travel, or a camping trip, or a beach vacation at five star hotel, etc.

such as the solar powered water bottle, why on earth would anyone be bringing that to a business trip? unless your business trip is to the middle of a jungle, and that would make you a crocodile skin dealer.

and again compass?

what about mp3 player? or camera? or video recorder? or retractable ethernet / phone line cable? or a noise cancellation head phone?

there’s just too many gadgets to consider…

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:09:32 +0000

In retrospect, “essential” is probably overstating it a bit. It’s about half essential items and half items that are just really nice to have.

And Ben, you’re right about Gerber’s Fiskars scissors. That’s one thing that they really do right. The scissors in my Wave are decent, but nowhere as nice as the ones in my old Gerber.