Scribbling away at night

Traveling and going on trips gives you time off from the daily grind. This is also a good time to update your journal with all the new sights, new people, new experiences that you come across as you travel to new places. When the day is over and night sets in, recording your insights about all that has happened for the day.

This Night Writer Pen by Magellan is the perfect travel companion if you want to spend quiet evenings scribbling your thoughts away. This pen with a light will allow you to write on your travel journal diary even as your companions are already asleep. Just click its small switch and you can see and write on the pages of your journal.

Traveling with pencils

Lead pencils are misnomers. There really is no lead in the pencils. Usually, the only lead in the pencils is the trace of metal in the paint used to color the wood casing. What it usually has is a mixture of graphite and clay. This is what makes up that part that writes. The more graphite in the mixture, the softer and darker it writes.

Travelers usually find pencils to be dependable writing companions. They don’t leak or blot. They don’t have problems with being hung upside down for a long time. Bring 2 pencils and a pad of paper when traveling. You just might get to finish a novel along the way.

Charging without electricity

Today’s world is so full of gadgets that need electricity. In fact, a portion of our luggage carries all those wires and chargers that it gets quite confusing. What is frustrating about travelling with all these gadgets is when the room you get has only one electric output. There’s no way you’re going to be able to charge the batteries of your camera, your cell phone, your iPod, and your notebook in one night.

One answer to this problem is this device produced by Solar Technologies UK called the Freeloader. The Freeloader is a portable charging device that comes with 120mA crystalline solar cells. You can charge anything using it – from digital cameras to your iPod. Amazing!

When the first bicycle was introduced, people didn’t think you should entrust your life to a flimsy frame on two wheels. As better models emerged, the bicycle won more and more fans until riding a bike became the best way to exercise or the healthy way to go around town.

Bikes are not like horses – they don’t get tired and hungry. Bikes are not like trains that you have to wait for or come In late – if you have a bike, you can come and go anytime. Bikes are convenient to use, especially when a city has established bicycle lanes. And with the rising cost of fuel, maybe it’s time we shifted to this mode of travel.

A secret drawer in your laptop

If you’re like me, you don’t have any use for that PC card slot in your notebook. It’s really a queer thing for notebook manufacturers to keep on putting something that very few people use regularly. Well, we can’t stop manufacturers from placing those slots in. But we can think up of different ways to make use of its space.

Well, there’s already one product out in the market that has thought of a way to use this unused card slot. Wireless Garden is now producing the Stash Card. The Stash Card is a secret compartment as big as a PC card. You can keep here all sorts of stuff like memory cards, money or photos. Interested? Check out the Stash Card here.