Travelling is one of life’s joys: from the high-end playground of Las Vegas to Vietnam’s lush greenery, this planet is full of amazing sights and experiences. The more you travel, the more you appreciate the art of careful and selective packing to make the most of the experience (and limited baggage allowances) and, if you’re a gadget lover like me, the tech that you couldn’t travel without. Splendid Isolation For the journey, it’s important to rest well and travel with minimum distractions from a noisy, cramped aircraft. The top gadget for this: noise cancelling headphones. Swap the thrum of the engines…
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Nerdsday: X-Mini Capsule Speaker
I’ve been traveling fairly consistently since about 2005 and have gotten rid of most of the bulkier things I own. I haven’t owned a record player in 2 years (yet still haul around all my records) and haven’t had a stereo or CD player in even longer, relying on my iPhone and computer for my audio entertainment – and suffering greatly in sound quality as you can imagine. Until I got this little X-Mini speaker. Naturally, the first things I noticed about the speaker was that it’s bright pink color matched my iPhone case perfectly and it also fit perfectly…
Nerdsday: Fashion and the iPhone/iTouch
I’ve had my iTouch for over a year now and my iPhone for 6 months. Do I need them both? Yes. Don’t think I’m spoiled or rich – the iTouch was a Christmas present and I paid $99 for my iPhone refurbished. I use both of them every day, all day long and can’t remember my life without them. I may be a little embarrassed of that but that doesn’t make it any less true. I watch movies on planes and in bed on my iTouch, read books on Stanza on my iPhone. My iTouch plays Pandora internet radio…