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Knee Defender Protects You From Reclining Airplane Seats

Knee Defender does exactly what it says: … helps you stop reclining airplane seatbacks so your knees won’t have to. It helps you defend the space you need when confronted by a faceless, determined seat recliner who doesn’t care how long your legs are or about anything else that might be “back there”. I’m a [...]

LaCie MosKeyto May Be World’s Tiniest Flash Drive

LaCie MosKeyto: Ultra-Compact Flash Drive With a footprint of just 6mm from the side of your laptop, the LaCie MosKeyto may well be the world’s smallest flash drive. Currenty available in 4GB ($17.99) and 8GB ($27.99) capacities, it’s truly a set-it-and-forget-it travel gadget.

KeyTool: (Almost) Perfect, Lightweight Multi-tool for Travelers

Since I now only travel with carry-on luggage, I thoroughly miss the bevy of tools that my Swiss Army knife typically affords me. ThinkGeek’s (rather clumsily named) KeyTool Keyring Multi-tool almost … almost … solves that problem.

Matrix 2: The Awesome Flight Search Engine Behind … the Other Flight Search Engines

In case you blinked, the travelsphere was all atwitter last week over news of Matrix 2, the flight search engine behind … many of the other big name flight search engines. It’s the same backend that powers Kayak, Orbitz, CheapTickets and countless other travel sites.

GetSet Compares Flying, Driving, and Busing to Determine the Cheapest Travel Method

GetSet is a crazy simple web app that compares the most popular methods of travel – flying, driving and taking the bus – to find the cheapest way to get you from A-to-B. The site couldn’t be more straightforward: pick your departure and arrival cities. Click “GO”. That’s it. Lifehacker notes however: While the results [...]

Judd Apatow Working on New Travel Film “Wanderlust”

Paul Rudd in a Completely Unrelated Photo Shoot Over at WorldHum.com, Eva Holland notes that Judd Apatow – yes Hollywood’s golden child of comedy film production – is working on a new travel flick: Details are still thin on this one, but it looks as though the Judd Apatow comedy crew is turning its attention [...]

Hipmunk.com Offers a Clever Take on Flight Searching

If you like Kayak.com for its no-nonsense interface, you’re going to love Hipmunk.com. Its ultra-lightweight, barebones interface makes finding available flights easier and, we think, much more intuitive by displaying results as colored rows on a timetable. The usual sort options are available: price, stops, departure time, arrival time, and duration. The site also allows [...]

Cricket Travel Trailer Is Half Airstream, Half Vanagon … and All Awesome

In my seemingly endless quest for the perfect ultralight travel trailer, the funky little Cricket Trailer popped onto my radar. The photo above speaks for itself. It’s like the freakish love child of a classic Airstream RV and a VW Vanagon … if that love child got into a few minor car accidents. It’s somehow [...]

LaCie Introduces XtremKey “All-Terrain USB Flash Drive”

LaCie XtremKey All-Terrain USB Flash Drive James Bond owned one. Well … not really. But he would have. Sexy, uber-sleek minimalist design aside, the new XtremKey from LaCie is billed as an “all-terrain USB flash drive” – the company’s “strongest, toughest USB key yet”. Constructed from an industrial strength alloy known as zamac, the XK [...]

Cloak Bag Is the World’s Only Shoot-Through Camera Bag

From the “Why didn’t anyone think of this before?” department comes the Cloak Bag. It’s hailed as the “world’s only shoot-through camera bag” and it looks to be just that. With dedicated side slits for easy access to your camera’s manual adjustments and an open bottom to ensure nothing is in the way of your [...]

Booze Smuggling Walking Cane: Best. Travel. Gadget. Ever.

Here’s a SkyMall-esque gadget a man can actually stand behind. From the “Why didn’t somebody think of this before???” department … HomeWetBar.com brings us the Brandy Smuggler Walking Cane Flask. For the traveling lush who’s looking to bring booze smugging to a whole new level, this ingenious little device: … holds 10 oz of your [...]

Mobile App ‘Dial Zero’ Connects You to Live Customer Service Humans

The last place you want to wait an hour on hold in customer service hell is in an airport thousands of mile from home. Mobile app Dial Zero expedites customer service calls by allowing you to “quickly dial the customer service numbers of over 600 companies and skip directly to a person.” Nice! Dial Zero [...]

Samsung DualView TL220 Camera: Solves the Age-Old Self-Portrait “Issue”

The recently debuted Samsung DualView TL220 digital camera solves an age old problem: how to shoot perfectly framed self-portraits every time. Simple: add an LCD screen to the front of the camera. It might seem a frivolous novelty at first. But for solo travelers, it’s about as essential as a GorillaPod. The unit also features [...]

GhostCam App: Add a Little Flare to Your Ghost-Free Travel Photos

We’re hard pressed to find iPhone apps that are both travel and Halloween related. But GhostCam comes close. It does just thing: … makes taken pictures into ghost photographs. Simply dial in the number of ghosts you want, tweak a few other effects, and .. voila! You’re practically a regular on Ghost Hunters. Practical? Nope. [...]

Boa Flow Backpack by booq

If you’ve been searching for an awesome media pack to carry all of your travel gadgets, the Boa Flow Backpack by booq® may fit the bill. Available in sizes M (fits 15″ laptops) and XL (fits most 17″ laptops), the Flow features: Ballistic nylon exterior with water-repellant coating Oversized YKK high-performance zippers HD foam laptop [...]

Citibot: Full Sized Folding Travel Kayak [First Look]

A travel kayak? Yup. The Citibot folding kayak from Folbot (as in: folding boat) weighs a mere 24 pounds, is full-size, and 100% airline checkable making it a perfect addition to the traveling outdoorsmen’s baggage list. According to the manufacturer’s own video, it assembles in a mere 12.5 minutes. Our guess it that that’s probably [...]

Flipside RFID-Protected Wallet [First Look]

The next wave of digital information storage/transmission is already here: it’s called RFID. It stands to reason that the next wave of information theft will be in the form of RFID “snooping”. The new Flipside Wallet: … takes elements of the traditional bi-fold wallet and advances them to address new interests in security, durability, functionality, [...]

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