Posted by Peter Brady on Tue 15th August 2006 at 07:00 AM, Filed in Travel Gadgets
If you’re not a great linguist then you might want to consider this little gadget. It’s called an Electronic Travel Translator and cross-translates 11 international languages, which include: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch Russian, Swedish, Italian, Chinese Mandarin , Portuguese and Japanese.
There are 705 commonly used travel related sentences per language. Insert voice card to enable Voice Mate to speak required language. There are 8 major categories to help locate the required sentence, for example: general speech, emergency and medicine and sightseeing. There are also 16 data files to store important notes and this travel mate displays 15 cities world time.
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Posted by Peter Brady on Mon 14th August 2006 at 03:25 PM, Filed in Travel Gadgets
Fed up with dirty, uncomfortable sunloungers next to the hotel pool? Why not take your own collapsible garden hammock and avoid the scramble for towlels on sun loungers.
We spotted this excellent, collapsible hammock retailing for a very reasonable £39.99 ($73).
The hammock is collapsible and is easily setup in less than a minute. It is self supporting and so doesn’t need any other support such as a tree or fence - and it can quickly be collapsed and packed away for storage in no time at all.
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