Tag: HGGTRAVELER

A recent late night flight back to New York was a great opportunity to test out the new iMuffs MB220 Bluetooth headset ($150) from Wi-Gear. The MB220 links with your iPod, iPhone, or Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. The built-in music and volume controls allow you to stash your music player away while you listen wirelessly, which can be a space-saver when crammed into the tiny back rows of a 737. ...

Mophie Juicepack (Traveler, Under $100) While the iPhone 3G is unarguably a great piece of technology, it has one fatal flaw: horrible battery life. Enter the savior: plug it into your standard iPhone charger, and Mophie's Juicepack holds an additional 28 hours of audio playback, eight hours of video playback, and six hours of 3G talk/data time (these are best case numbers). You can leave it ...

Sony Vaio TT (Traveler, Under $5,000) In the ongoing race among laptops to be the strongest, thinnest, lightest whatever, Sony's latest Vaio has taken the lead: the world's smallest Blu-ray player-equipped notebook. That alone is enough to get us throwing high-fives, but the capper is that it also has a 7.5-hour battery life, which means a traveler could conceivably watch four entire HD movies ...

Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer Laptop Bag (Traveler, under $250) As if removing your coat, belt, shoes, and dignity weren't enough for the snoopy TSA guys protecting our nation's airports, you still gotta break out the laptop and put it in its own tub for a scan. Except now it turns out you don't? if you have the right gear. Tom Bihn, maker of fine luggables, worked with the TSA to develop a bag ...

Best Buy Insignia Internet GPS (Traveler, Under $500) As GPS devices have gone mainstream, so have most of their once-exclusive features?automatic rerouting, local points of interest, voice prompts, and so-on. What sets the Insignia apart is that it does all that, but it's also Internet-connected, bringing access to Google Local Search and Google Maps on-the-fly, up-to-the-minute gas prices, ...