WaveBox – Portable Microwave Oven for Vacation, Car and Boat

I can imagine that most of you can live without a microwave oven for a day or two, but let’s say that you leave on vacation and you’re not sure if your holiday home is equipped with a microwave oven. Or you need to warm the baby’s bottle of milk in the car on the way to your destination. Or maybe you want to cook the fish that you just caught while you’re on your boat with friends. Well, the WaveBox portable microwave oven can do all of that.

Avoid Excess-Baggage Charges with this Balanzza Portable Scale

Baggage restrictions are becoming increasingly severe as airlines try to compete with ever decreasing tariffs while fuel prices skyrocket. For us travelers, it’s very tempting to buy those cheap souvenirs or clothes at our destination, but make sure that you don’t get a nasty surprise when the excess-baggage charges render them even more expensive than in your local shop. Weigh your luggage before takeoff with the Balanzza portable digital luggage scale.

Travel Light – Titan Razor with Shaving Cream Reservoir

A shaving can with enough cream for you to shave 50 times is simply unnecessary when you’re going away for just a few days. It can make the difference between hand luggage only and a suitcase that’ll mean a longer wait at the airport and baggage retrieval, and makes life difficult when using public transport when you get to your destination. This Titan razor helps you to travel light and efficiently.

UV Monkey Tells You How Much Sunscreen You Need

You know those hazy summer days when you think it’s not worthwhile to put on that greasy sunscreen lotion? Then, in the evening, you get home with sunburn that makes you look – and worse, feel – like a cooked lobster? The UV Monkey ultraviolet sensor will help you to avoid such nasty surprises – and the price shouldn’t be an issue.

Videotape your Journey as Proof in Case of a Traffic Accident

Even when you have a minor car accident and you’re confident that it’s the other person’s fault, it can happen that your insurance rejects the claim. Even if you’re well insured, this can occur in situations where it’s your word against the other’s and there are no witnesses who can back your version of the events that led to the accident. With the current costs of labor and spare parts, even the smallest of collisions can set you back $500 or more. A few new products are around that make sure you always have a friendly “witness” on the road with you, by videotaping your car journey to prove you’re telling the truth and that it’s the other guy’s fault. We take a closer look at three products in different price categories: the CarCam Voyager, the Rearview Mirror Car Camera Recorder, and the T-eye In-Car Driving Recording System. The recorded evidence may make your average car accident attorney quite happy.

Travel Light, Save Space and Replace Your Shaving Cream with Shaving Oil

… or The Incredible Shrinking Shaving Foam Can

When backpacking, every ounce counts, and – just in case you might want to shave from time to time – that 10 oz shaving foam can is not what you’re looking for. And on overnight business trips, you might want to restrict yourself to hand luggage only, when that same can of shaving foam is just another nuisance making this harder to achieve. Worse still, the severe liquid restrictions that apply at airport security checks might get your can confiscated and see you take off with no can at all. So instead of taking a can, why not travel with shaving oil such as the one from Somersets or the Pacific Shaving Company?

Bushnell GPS BackTrack Guides You Back to the Exact Spot

The Bushnell BackTrack, also marketed under the name “GPS Homing Device”, is a useful and simple handheld GPS location-finder for people who need to memorize a spot in a city or landscape and who don’t want to operate a more complex GPS receiver. It can memorize up to three spots by the simple press of a button and guide you back by means of a simple arrow.

USBCell from Moixa – Rechargeables that Plug Into any USB Port

We just discussed the Rezap Battery Doctor, which recharges even alkaline batteries – a solution that I favor for most purposes. But it still requires you to take yet another charger with you on your travels, which is not ideal for vacations or business trips. Recently, however, I stumbled upon these USBCell rechargeable batteries from Moixa, which have the charger integrated in the battery itself! A very clever design, with a few minor drawbacks – but lots of advantages.

Comparison of Different Mosquito Repellent Approaches

When you go on a camping vacation or just want to enjoy sitting outside in the summer, mosquitoes, no-see-ums, black flies, and other pests are a real nuisance and can spoil your entire evening. There are several products on the market that promise to keep them away, and it’s not always easy to make an educated choice between the different options. Some work, some don’t. Some are harmful to your health as well; some aren’t. We’ve compiled the following table based on personal experience and information found on the Internet.
Since it was new to us and it looks promising, we discussed the ThermaCELL Portable Mosquito Repellent in more detail in another article.

For information on the new breed of Solar Bug Zappers, you can read this article on Solar Landscape Light and Bug Zapper.

Handpresso Wild Portable Espresso Maker for Travel, Camping and Picnic

If you’re the kind of person for whom a coffee is okay as long as it looks like coffee – even if it doesn’t necessarily taste like coffee – then you don’t need to read any further. For you the product that follows probably is a gadget. But if you’re a coffee lover for whom instant coffee is an inconvenience too far, even while on vacation, the Handpresso Portable Espresso Maker might be your savior. Personally, I can’t stand instant coffee. I’d rather have no coffee at all, even if my blood caffeine levels do get dangerously low as a result during our camping vacation.