Silhouette Eyewear
£180.00
The Titan X for men and Titan X for women from Silhouette have been designed to be universally desirable with four lens shapes in a masculine design, all of which are available in eight striking colours including green and blue/grey, so to create a stylish impression, wherever you travel. Flexible and shatter- proof, the hurried traveller can wear or carry them confidently. The innovative design has allowed Silhouette to dispense with cumbersome elements such as screws and create a user-friendly classically elegant solution. Silhouette’s rimless concepts offer a diverse range of choices so that an individual, stylish and reliable eyewear solution can be tailored for every man or woman, at home or on the go.
Devicescape
Devicescape loads onto a mobile (or any other Wi-Fi enabled device – laptop, PDA etc), logging onto Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the world, alleviating the need to remember usernames, passwords and overcomes language barriers. The device searches for all available hotspots, free or subscribed to, and provides log-in assistance making it a great piece of software for all business travellers who need instant access to information on the web. With all subscriptions logged into one database, executives can jump from one provider to another as they move throughout a city. Particularly handy when abroad, the Devicescape software will recognise roaming partners and allow the users to log onto the international partners. Best of all, Devicescape is free. Just download from the website.
Skins
£59.99
Jet Lag’s a perennial problem for any long-haul air traveller. We know the impact of flying long distances on our internal clock, but we know less about another oxygen starvation, due to there being 20-25 percent less oxygen in an airplane cabin than our bodies are used to. Combating this, elite athletes have been wearing ‘Skins’ Travel and Recovery (T&R) tights underneath their tracksuits. These high-tech garments use gradient compression to maintain a healthy circulation, minimise swelling and dehydration by directly countering oxygen starvation. Whether flying long-haul for pleasure, business or sport their popularity is on the rise. Skins use fabric panels which are stitched together so that pressure is applied directly to specific muscles – this increases venous return (the flow of oxygenated blood back to the heart) by up to 30 percent, with all its attendant benefits.
So, why not learn a travelling trick from Olympians and try their high-tech ‘secret’.
TalkSport magazine
By the pool, at the airport or in the hotel bar, getting your weekly sports fix when you’re away on has been made easier with the new talkSPORT Magazine. talkSPORT has created a free, weekly, digital magazine that comes out every Thursday. The magazine lands in your inbox, taking away the need to spend time hunting down a newspaper. Each issue echoes the ballsy, straight-talking commentary and debate associated with the station and is packed with up-to-the-minute news, exclusive interviews with the world’s most dynamic sports stars, video footage, sports fashion and ‘money can’t buy’ competition prizes. Wherever you are in the world, travellers can download the magazine, and catch up with all the latest news without spending a penny, Euro or dollar.
Pinacle Video Transfer
£99.95
Wouldn’t it be good if you could record stuff straight from a TV, camcorder or DVD and dump it directly on to an iPod, PSP or flash stick? With the Pinnacle PVT you can do exactly that at the touch of a button. No computers or pesky software required. Believe it or not this idiot-proof box of tricks captures any type of analogue video and transfers it to your favourite USB-friendly gadget in pristine MPEG-4 format. Hook it up to your source machine, set the picture quality, press record and see the Pinnacle work its magic. It’s quick, simple – and really quite good.
Neverlate Executive 7 Day Alarm Clock Radio
The Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock is a 7-day Alarm Clock, and much more. Neverlate has the concept of alarm ‘banks’ – three in all. The two ‘7-day’ banks provide two, completely independent seven-day wake schedules – ‘his’ and ‘hers’, for example. These daily alarms (up to seven) sound every day at the same time, just like an ordinary ‘dual’ alarm clock, except with the added flexibility of additional daily alarms. The Executive Neverlate 7 Day Alarm clock can be as simple, or as complicated as you want. The features just keep coming.
Emergency Charger
This über-chic aluminium tube lets you charge an AA battery by attaching it to your phone or iPod (using one of the many included adaptors) giving two hours of extra talk time into your mobile. Charging time varies depending on your handset but it’s usually about the same as a mains charger. Just pop the Emergency Charger in your pocket along with your keys, cash and mobile phone or iPod and relax. It is powered by one of the most readily available power sources in the world. Just load up and get charging. You’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.
AeroPress Coffee maker
Making high quality filter coffee can be more hassle than its worth with many of us have little inclination to use the Cafeteria et al. The ingenious Aerobie AeroPress is a manually operated device capable of producing pro-standard cups of filter coffee and espresso in no time at all. The AeroPress delivers the smoothest, richest, purest and fastest cup of coffee (under 30 seconds) you’re ever likely to find – and it only costs a bit more than a few double espressos and couple of muffins. The AeroPress comes complete with everything you need to get started, including a year’s supply of micro filters, so unless you’re a chronic bean fiend the only thing you need to buy is the coffee. A quality gizmo.
Slingbox
£120
The Slingbox enables travellers to experience their home TV viewing wherever they are via PC, Apple Mac or mobile phone. With an internet connection the Slingbox allows the consumer to watch their own TV wherever they may be – it works with compatible mobile phone data plans as well as broadband internet. Slingbox PRO allows you to connect up to four separate devices to ‘sling’ content across the internet – DVD Player, PVR/DTR, Freeview etc. Slingbox SOLO provides connections to one external device to ‘sling’ content across either a PVR/DTR or DVD Player etc. The Slingbox redirects, or “placeshifts,” TV from an aerial connection, cable box, satellite receiver or personal video recorder (PVR) to the viewer’s PC or Mac computer or other mobile device; it even works with DVD players. Slingbox is certainly a gadget well placed to suit the on-the-move traveller.
K2000 D IPOD / MP3 Mini Portable Speakers
£39.99
These portable speakers are sleek and slim and could easily slip into a coat pocket without much fuss. They sound much louder than their size would suggest and they could hold their own with much larger travel speakers. The sound quality is crisp and dynamic. In fact, when the volume is on max you can even feel the power. Finished in a shiny black finish and with its own drawstring travel pouch this unit is perfect for those who love to hear their music loud but have limited space to carry a set of speakers. You could easily carry these in a coat pocket with your IPOD or MP3 player and truly be the music man on the move.
