1. Portable Electronic Luggage Scale – price ranges fro $20.00 – $40.00 a luggage scale is so important now that the airlines are making people pay extra for luggage.

2. Quikpod – Price rage ids about $40.00 – a lightweight rod that holds your camera farther away from you so you can get yourself in a picture better and easier

3. Noise canceling headphone – Prices start about $100 – get rid of all the noise around you – no matter where you travel or have to wait to travel.

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3 Great Gift Ideas For Travelers

1. 500 Places for Food and Wine Lovers – Travel Guide book from Frommer’s

2. The Travel Book – presenting A-Z coverage on every country in the world in a friend compact book format

3. Digital Picture Frame – for those travelers who can’t decide which picture they want to display now they can enjoy a montage of favorites

4. Leather Passport and document holder – great place for travelers to always carry their travel information

5. TSA approved airline carry-on luggage – many of the older suitcases do not fit in the overhead compartments for airlines and with many charging a fee getting a bag that is durable and easily fits in the overhead compartments is essential.

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5 Great Gift Ideas For The Traveler On Your Holiday List

Kensington Nightstand Charging Dock – convert your iPhone into a retro bedside alarm clock with a dock and a cable that charges the phone at the same time – all while you sleep.

Fitbit – if you travel or not but want to know how much exercise you are getting everyday doing your regular routine try a Fitbit. This little device fits in your pocket and records steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled.

iBend – stand your iPhone or iPod up to view from any desk , nightstand or table. This is a simple, small, portable and economical gadget for everyone. This is a fun stocking stuffer!

Mini Power Outlet – a 6 inch long compact power outlet – containing 4 AC outlets. Great for all those items that need to be recharged while on travel and limited outlets. Monster Outlets to Go have these available for under $25.00

Flat automatic umbrella – Brookstone offers this small and convenient rain umbrella that fits into any and all computer cases, backpacks,briefcases and purses.

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Great Gifts For The Traveler On Your Shopping List

Though many airlines have been working on this technology for sometime, AirTran Airways will be the first US Carrier to implement a full Wi-Fi service on it’s entire fleet for their passengers. Virgin America has Wi-Fi, but they are an affiliate of the British Virgin Airline brand, So AirTran is the first US carrier.

AirTran Airways has partnered with Aircell to equip its planes with the wireless broadband access. The cost will be $9.95 for flights less than 3 hours and $12.95 for flights longer than 3 hours. There is also a special rate for Blackberry and iPhone owners of $7.95.

Here where most other airlines are cutting back on services, this is a valueable service being added for passengers, to help pass the time while traveling on a plane.

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Way High Will You Find Wi-Fi

As a child growing up traveling the world, one thing my father instilled in my was to be able to let people know that when I needed help in some way that I don’t speak their language. It used to be that we would get a language translation book for one language and try to pull it out when we needed it. With today’s technology all of that information that used to be found by carrying around books, can now be found in one hand held mobile translator.

The Nyrius Entourage 7 Global Translator literally speaks to you and for you in 7 languages. The seven languages are English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.

The translator is set up by category for easy use, such as you need directions to your hotel – the Nyrius Entourage 7 finds the information in the language you need and the translator can do the rest for you with it’s built in speaker. How cool is that? Now even if you had the words you need to say you won’t botch up the enunciation of the language you need to speak in.

The Entourage 7 has other features as well like being able to provide you with key phrases like ‘Please’ and Thank you’. It will also display actual time is 24 cities around the world (in case you need to phone home).  I think this will be a great asset to any traveler and even in our own country so we may speak to more people in their own languages.

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Can You Say Help or Thank You? In How Many Languages?

When I travel, I travel light, so having to carry around a 5 lb. 3 ft tri-pod was a no go in my book, this Gorillapod is right up my alley and it is unique as well. The legs of the tri-pod bend! Bye, Bye old tri-pod …hello Gorillapod! This still has 3 legs for anchoring but to get those extrodinary shots you can perch this tri-pod around a tree branch, a chair or other places that will help you get a non-moving, non-blurred, picture perfect photo! The Gorillapod can be used for SLR cameras or camcorder up to 1.75 lbs.

So don’t worry about having everyone pose for minutes on end, don’t worry about not being able to capture that once in a life time picture use this new product Gorillapod by Joby.

There is no monkey business here, just a great product for all of travelers who love to take pictures!

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Are You A Shutterbug?

The book has close to 700 travel trivia tidbits (say that fast 3 times) and has colorful illustrations as well to go along with some of the stories.  The book is divided into 12 chapters based on segments such as hotels, aviation, the history of travel, geography and other categories.

I look forward to reading this book in the very near future, since it is available at bookstores now. You never know I may share some of the interesting, funny pieces I am sure I’ll find in the book. I can I assume this? Ask yourself…have you ever met anyone who travels that doesn’t have a story to tell?

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How Well Do You Know Your Travel Trivia?

The Icoon+ if you are traveling and don’t know the lanuage well here is a small book that will be a big help. This book uses globally recognized icons or symbols to get your point or question across. This is a picture dictionary – just point your picture at the icon and people around the world can understand that you need to find a restaurant, bathroom, hospital or hundreds of other things. The Icoon+ has 12 categories and over 2000 symbols to help you when you can’t get your message understood. This book sells for less that $10.00.

Kiss Essential Travel Kit – this kit includes nail scissors, slant tip tweezers, sapphire nail file, cuticle pusher and cleaner, nails clippers all in a small travel pouch that fits easily into any ones suitcase. This kit sell for less than $8.00.

The Art of Shaving Kit – This is a TSA approved shaving kit that contains all the items you’ll need for the perfect shave while traveling. The kit comes in a clear pouch and contains a pre-shave oil pump, shaving cream pump, pure badger hair brush and an after shave balm pump. All products are fragrance free and hypoallergenic. This kit sells for under $55.00.

What If Earbud Jack – If your earbuds for your iPod, cell phone hands free set or MP3 player gets tangled while you travel, here is a cute and useful carrier that keeps their cords from getting tagled. This handy little widget is in the shape of a person (actually more like a blue gingerbread man), made of durable plastic. The ear buds are held in his hands and the cords wrap around his body shape. It takes just a few seconds to wrap or unwrap your electronics cords from this clever widget and then you don’t have to worry about the cords getting tangle up in everything else you are carrying in your carry on bags. This item sells for less than $10.00.

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Travel Gifts And Gadgets