It’s always important to put in some prep fitness work before hitting the slopes.
The Indo Board offers this by improving proprioception and increased leg strength.
It can also be used for squats, lunges and upper body work. Check out the Indo DVD for further instruction.
An Indo Board retails for £100 ($200).
Ever been able to communicate effectively while on holiday. Well the Lingo translator could be a big help.
This amazing little gizmo comes with 320,000 words and 32,000 phrases that will enable you to chatter away in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
It also includes a large two-line display is easy to read, and the slim, compact case fits easily in your purse or shirt pocket. Features include a databank (with password), currency converter, metric converter, world time clock, alarm, and 12-digit calculator.
Retails for around $50 (£100).
Getting a bit of shut eye on a flight can be the difference between a good start to your holiday, and a bad start.
A decent eye mask costs as little as £10 ($20), but can help promote deep sleep. This particular design is moulded to allow complete eye movement. You might look like a bit of an idiot wearing these - but who will have the last laugh when you exit your flight fresh as paint….
If you’re like me - you probably leave the weight of luggage in the lap of the gods. Then you get hit for some sort extortionate flight penalty baggage charge.
Well no more. I’m going to buy myself some travel luggage scales that will at least give me some idea of the weight I’m packing.
Travel luggage scales aren’t even that expensive. These beauties retail for a very reasonable £10 ($20) and can take weights of up to 24 kgs (74 lbs).
If you have a poor sense of direction on the ski slopes - help maybe at hand.
As a skier or snowboarder you can now use your own pocket sized Satski or portable sat nav. Incorporating a colour screen the Satski provides your current location on a piste map and suggests routes through your resort.
Some handy additional features include distance travelled, speed and even a facility for burning your days route onto a CD.
Selected resorts will be offering the Satski for hire at a reasonable £28 ($56) a day.
Some operators including Meriski are offering Satski for free on certain weeks.
