Travel Gear

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Saddleback Leather Co. Waterbag Medium Review

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I grant you Saddleback Leather’s Waterbag is not a gadget or tech device of any kind…..its not even specifically designed to carry around tech gear and/or their accessories. But it is an incredibly well made, stylish piece of travel gear, designed to (easily) withstand the test of decades of travel and the hard/rough-road taken. When […]

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Choiix Power Fort 10Wh Rechargeable Battery Review

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When you travel with gadgets, you’ll eventually run short on power before you’ve reached your destination. There are a lot of backup batteries on the market, but it can be hard to find one to meet all your needs. It’s expensive to buy a dedicated battery for each of your devices – not to mention

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Monster iClarityHD Precision Micro Bluetooth Speaker 100 Review

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The Monster iClarityHD Precision Micro Bluetooth Speaker 100’s name might be bigger than the speaker itself, but it packs a lot of sound into that small space. It also makes a fine hands-free audio bridge (speaker & mic) for your Bluetooth-enabled devices. It does this in an attractive and very portable package that will grind

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Carry and conceal your gadgets while all gussied up

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Wish you could carry your indispensably favorite gadgets on your person and look sharp at a board (bored?) meeting at the same time?  Impossible, you say?  SCOTTeVEST doesn’t.  The latest in their line of gadget-concealing clothing is the deceptively simple-named SeV Sport Coat.   With a traditional 3-button tailored fit, it features 24 (!) NoBulge

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Charge All Your Devices with the Solio Mono Hybrid Charger

The Solio Mono Hybrid Charger can charge almost any device that charges with a USB cable.  The Mono has a 1000 mAh Litium-ion battery that can hold a charge for up to 1 year.  The Mono is charged by the sun, by USB, or with the global wall travel adapter.  It outputs power in the 5-6V,

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TerraStar GENUS is a satellite smartphone for your pocket

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You don’t seem to hear much about satellite phones these days. I can remember seeing them in the past, with huge fold out antennas… definitely not something you could carry in your pocket. TerraStar and AT&T are now offering the GENUS, a sleek pocket sized smartphone (powered by Windows Mobile 6.5) with an internal antenna

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Hide gadgets ninja-style with a Takino Shirt

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If you’re on this site, you’re a gadgetophile, which probably means you lug around a lot of gadgets.  But what to do if you can’t or don’t want to haul a messenger bag, but you feel the need to have your phone, music player, earbuds, camera, wallet, keys, passport, pen, multitool, breath mints and maybe

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MobileEdge ScanFast Checkpoint Friendly Briefcase 2.0 Review

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When you are going through airport security, what’s the most important thing?  I mean, aside from making sure your socks don’t have holes in them, that is.  You want to get through it fast, right?  And it sure is a hassle having to remove your laptop from its bag and then put it back in

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Skooba Design Introduces the Techlife™ Collection

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Recently, we told you about the Techlife™ Netbook/iPad Messenger from Skooba Design.  Michael Hess, the president of Skooba Design, took the time to let us know that Techlife™ is much more than just a single bag.  The collection features a series of super-lightweight, casual yet sporty bags: the messenger and a neo-skin for the netbook/iPad, a

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Why did my iPad Fail as a Laptop Replacement During my Vacation?

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I just returned from a very nice vacation in Sanibel Island, Florida. If you’ve never visited, you should seriously consider it… trust me. I decided to conduct a little experiment and did not take along my trusty Macbook Pro. Instead, I made my iPad serve as my only computer traveling companion for the trip. I thought

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Mezzi Gold M-Zero Molded “Chuck” Briefcase Review

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Anyone watch the NBC television nerd series “Chuck“?  It’s all about this average computer whiz guy nerd who works at a Best Buy-like store.  He’s harmless, nerdy, a little on the wussy side.  One day Chuck receives an encoded email from an old college buddy who is now with the CIA.  The email  embeds the

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