High Tech Travel Gifts
Quality consumer electronics for leisure and business trips alike.
Several high technology gift ideas can add luxury to all types of travel. Be it a business trip or a luxury vacation, a gift of any of these will make traveling easier.
Sophisticated travelers know that high tech gadgets often make vacations easier, or at least abate the boredom of air travel. For leisure and business travel, there are several new advances in portable technology that make for excellent luxury travel gifts. Any one of these (or perhaps all of them) is sure to be received with delight. Remember, it doesn't have to be the holiday season to surprise someone - even yourself - with a shiny new gadget.
Here is a list of high tech luxury travel gift ideas with product reviews.
- The Blackberry 8100 cameraphone, is sleeker, shinier, and even harder to resist than previous Blackberry models. Crackberry addicts will go nuts over its streamlined shape and jet-black casement. See the photo? That's right; 4 inches in length, maybe 2 inches wide. The RIM Blackberry 8100, also called the Blackberry Pearl (paging Captain Jack Sparrow), is more consumer-focused than its business-oriented predecessors. It has faster download speeds, faster email, a trackball, and a media/audio player. Other multimedia applications may also be included. This is one of the ultimate luxury gifts you can give your favorite gearhead. Blackberry technophiles will happily grouse as they learn how to text message and email on the non-qwerty keyboard. Starting in 2007, the Blackberry Pearl can use Cingular wireless service, as well as T-mobile.
- The Sony Cybershot H5 (DSC-H5) is the latest of Sony's foray into the overcrowded digital camera world. What's new? This version of Sony's highly popular and well-reviewed Cybershot, has a relatively huge 3" viewing screen. With the 7.2 million pixels and the Carl Zeiss zoom lens of all Sony Cybershots, the H5 also has optional wide and tele lens converters, 32 mb's of internal memory, and a Memory Stick/PRO Duo slot to shoot additional digital photographs before downloading to your home computer. The DSC-H5 also has higher resolution than its older counterparts, as well as the jpeg format for stills and the mpeg VX format for movies. The new 3 inch viewing screen is the eye candy of this camera, but the internal high tech advances are what keep Sony at the forefront of digital camera technology.
- Bose QuietComfort 3 Noise Canceling Headphones, are great for quality sound production and ambient noise cancelation. The headphones fold flat for easy packing, and all the electronics are right in the ear pieces. Full-spectrum noise reduction, Bose's renown high quality audio delivery, and padded, comfortable headphones make this an ideal luxury travel gift for frequent flyers. These are extremely effective at reducing the jet-turbine noise that intrudes on air travelers' attempts to rest or concentrate, and while the Bose QuietComfort 3s are larger than other noise-canceling headphones I've tried (specifically, those by Sharper Image), they work much better.
- Xtrememac has a new MicroMemo High-Fidelity Digital Audio Recorder for easy audio recording and listening on your iPod. Compatible with video iPods, this small, capable hi-fi microphone has full integration with iPods' simple menus and iTunes storage system. The flexible mike plugs into the iPod dock connector. It's really a remarkable microphone, and available in white or black for visual integration with our iPod as well! Record your business meetings, and listen back on them as you travel home. Compact, easy to use, and as easy to pack as a pen. It's amazing no one thought to invent this iPod accessory earlier.
Related, on Suite 101:
Blackberry 8800 Product Review
Garmin GPSMAP 60Cx Product Review
High Tech (I Married a Gearhead) Blog
Copyright Jennifer Miner and Suite 101. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized use will constitute an infringement of copyright.
