Top 5 travel gadgets for a hi-tech holiday

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E-reader, photo by Cristian Eslava

Back in the days when people traveled on horse-drawn carriages, steamboats or worse, on foot, nobody though about packing more than the bare necessities for the trip.

A suitcase with a few changes of clothes and maybe a book to keep the boredom away on long trips was the standard traveling equipment for many. But nowadays, there’s no limit to what people can take with them for their holidays. You can’t bear to be separated from your favorite tv show? You can take your portable DVD player with you?

You can’t live without internet? You can take your laptop. The point is that new technologies allow us to take our gadgets with us so we don’t have to interrupt our usual hobbies while we are traveling, and some gadgets provide added comforts on the trip. So here are the top 5 gadgets for a hi-tech holiday.

E-readers

If you love both reading and traveling, then you are probably familiar with the great feeling of opening a book for the first time when on a train or plane, and breathing in the scent of fresh paper. Well, the e-reader won’t be able to give you that, but it will make your luggage a lot easier. E-readers can store dozens of books, so no matter how long your holiday, you’ll always have some fresh reading material.

Mini sound systems

Listening to the sounds of nature is fine and dandy, but if some tunes would make your day at a remote beach or at a picnic in the countryside better, then a tiny sound system will be your favorite gadget forever. These things can fit into the palm of your hands and they are surprisingly loud.

Waterproof iPod and speakers

While on the subject of music, how about being able to listen to your favorite beats while leisurely swimming in the ocean, a lake or a pool? This iPod can be strapped to your arm and it won’t hinder your movements, and it won’t come to any harm while you are splashing away blissfully.

Portable solar battery charger

This battery charger will work where traditional plug-in battery chargers won’t. If you’re out camping or hiking and you need batteries for your phone, flashlight, camera etc, you can charge them with the eco-friendly device. So when you are in the middle of nowhere you won’t have to worry about tracking down the nearest human habitation where you can find a plug.

Global cell phone

Does your service provider allow you to call any country on the planet? Probably not. Anyway, with a global phone (there are several brands you can buy, some as cheap as $100), you can call (almost) every country in the world. So next time you can’t find a public phone in some remote village on top of a mountain, you can call your family to let them know that they don’t have to send out a search party for you yet.

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