Travel Gifts for the Holidays
Wednesday, November 7, 2007Looking for great travel gifts for the upcoming holiday season? Look no further: we’ve dedicated this week’s roundup to gifts for travelers young and well, not so young:
- Over at Mighty Goods they scoped out a cool Nap Sac Travel Blanket, a travel blanket and inflatable pillow that come in a nifty sac – which then doubles as the pillow case. $28
This funky iPod case at Horchow (right) comes with built-in speakers, making it great for trips. $95- Busy travelers may find MobiMate’s WorldMate useful: software that goes on your phone and syncs up with your Outlook to organize your travel itinerary. It also gives you hotel listings, flight info, currency conversions and other travel-related information; there are several editions, each with varied features. Professional edition, $74.95
- Travel books for little ones abound: two good choices are Going on a Plane, which tells little travelers what to expect when they’re airbound, and Lisa’s Airplane Ride, the adventures of a stuffed dog traveling solo from Paris to New York. $4.95/$9.95 at Amazon
Tech-savvy kids can create their own vacation memories with this camcorder from Hammacher Schlemmer (left), which includes cool editing features and TV and iPod cables to view your budding director’s work. $159.95
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January 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Do you have one or more Bookworms on your Travel Team? Are you lugging bags full of nothing but reading material on your trips (because you refuse to punt with DVD or Nintendo?) Are you familiar with the locations of English book stores in many foreign countries? This has been our story, and as a certain someone’s books get heavier, and her reading speed increases, it’s become Mission Critical to address the problem–and we have a fabulous solution to share! Check out the amazon.com Kindle. It’s a wonderful device that can pull a book right out of the air, wirelessly in the U.S. You read right on the device–think iPod for your library! My one complaint is that it’s so new, the content has not yet caught up . . . but it will. We love my daughter’s so much that we are each getting our own! This is the greatest travel gadget in our family since the Rhino Garmin GPS/Walkie Talkie!