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Five Travel Gear Companies That Give Back To The World

November 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM | by kellycrabb | 0 Comments

We talk about Travel Gear a lot here at Jaunted, and issues like Green Travel just as much. Merging the two are some innovative companies, who specialize not only in producing eco-friendly travel products, but also giving back to their communities and promoting a positive image of a global citizen. Perhaps when you're looking for your next piece of luggage, a new swim coverup, or even a full-size tent for that camping trip, you'll remember that there are options out there doing good for the world while they help you enjoy your trip.

Without further ado, here are a few of those companies: Five Travel Gear Companies That Give Back To The World:

Matt & Nat
In case you didn’t know, this uber-hip Vegan handbag line out of Montreal makes fashionable bags and wallets and totes from recycled water bottles. In addition to being environmentally smart, designer Inder Bedi gives back to various charities throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. From battered women’s shelters to animal rights, Bedi cares. He also sees that hundreds of homeless people eat a vegetarian meal twice annually in their home base of Montreal.

Additionally, a dollar for every bag sold goes to the charity of your choice. Within the first quarter, the line has accumulated charitable contribution dollars exceeding $16,000. Our favorite item? A little perfect-for-your-passport Men’s Murse.

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Would You Camp In A Tent Shaped Like The Sydney Opera House?

November 5, 2009 at 5:09 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

There's a certain class of people who enjoy the idea of being in nature but are less than enthusiastic about the "dirt" and "sleeping on the ground" and "being outside" parts of the experience. Their idea of roughing it involves a covered caravan, a $750 credit card bill at REI, and a case of white wine. Not red wine, because that would be too luxurious. Within that group, there's a certain subclass of folks who also have something of an nouveau riche air about them. In addition to actually "camping" in decadent comfort, they need to look like they're camping in decadent comfort. The new Opera capsule caravan, styled after the Sydney Opera House, is designed with them in mind:

We can't believe we're saying this, but this "tent" has a wine cabinet and more. Find out what else after the jump.

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The Search For Ideal Luggage Continues: V Australia's 'Perfect Bag'

October 28, 2009 at 12:12 PM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

It's one of the oldest moneymaking games in the book: convince tourists that the bags they're traveling with aren't safe enough, or convenient enough, or stylish enough, and sell them a more jaunt-friendly bag. Very very soon however, all this could be put to rest by the release of the fruit of the labors of a fashion designer-airline combination.

Whether you're of the type that prefers the sixteen zippered pockets and multitude of snaps, or the type that wants only a simplistic tote, V Australia is asking you to help them design "the perfect bag for the perfect trip."

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What Type Of Traveler Packs A Hand-Held UV Germ Scanner?

October 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

If you love getting out of the house but hate the "other people exist" part of traveling, there are a number of things you can do. Our recommendation is an mp3 player and a really good set of noise-canceling headphones. Failing that, books and earplugs work pretty well on airplanes. But there are certain parts of the world where interacting with other people's germs is unavoidable. Getting rid of all of them is impossible, you know.

But that isn't stopping travel companies from marketing hand-held UV lights, like the $79 Nano-UV Scanner, to germphobic travelers. There's a well-defined and well-justified use for UV bulbs in disinfecting water when you're camping—though there are easier ways and you better know what you're doing—but campers aren't the ones being targeted here:

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Travel Mug Solves Age-Old 'How To Avoid Getting Tongue Burns' Problem

October 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM | by Omri | 2 Comments

The travel mug designers at Jolex have developed a new travel cup that promises to solve one of the central dilemmas in coffee drinking: what to do during that delicate period when the coffee is still scalding hot but you want to drink it anyway. The trick is usually to get just enough but not too much plasma-temperature coffee on your tongue. Experienced coffee drinkers can pull this off while driving, doing makeup, and blogging into their smartphone. The rest of us just look comical, jerking the cup back and forth trying not to get burned.

The new Brugo coffee mug, which uses an innovative design to cool off the coffee one sip at a time, is made for the rest of us.

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The Most Finely Tuned Way To Travel With Champagne

October 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Another in our increasingly long list of exorbitantly priced designer luggage, the new "In Case of..." collection from Mumm GH has the additional benefit of not being able to carry much except champagne bottles and flutes. Conveniently, each of the three trunks actually come with Brut Cordon Rouge and Vintage 1998 and the flutes with which to drink it.

Inconveniently, the cheapest of the three pieces costs over $5,000. That price gets you one of the leather trunks, the red Mini Mumm Cordon Rouge Gross, and comes with four mini bottles of the sparkly. Things get even steeper after that, although in fairness the bottles do get bigger. So while we will never ever speak poorly of booze travel - still.

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Is Butt Comfort A Priority On Long Flights? The 'Skwoosh' Can Help

September 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM | by Omri | 1 Comment

Do you have trouble "sitting down?" Does the thought of "bending your knees" or "getting in a chair" make you cringe? If so, then retailer TravelSmith might have the perfect travel gear accessory for you. The SKWOOSH Traveler Seat Pad is a brand new product that helps you accomplish, in the context of modern airports and airplanes, what humans have been doing unaided for the better part of 10,000 years.

In the category of "most offensive comfort travel gear," this nonsense isn't even close. And yet—and yet...

Travelers regularly spend hundreds of dollars to reduce their carry-on weight by mere ounces. There's an entire market in multitasking travel devices designed specifically for that purpose, and it moves billions of dollars per year. Meanwhile other people are carrying around portable seats to cover the chairs they're already sitting on? That seems unnecessary.

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Cathay Pacific Debuts A Mobile App Not Just For iPhones

September 24, 2009 at 12:23 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Apparently feeling jealous that hotel companies were getting all the attention for useless iPhone apps, Cathay Pacific is getting into the mix with their own mobile products. Since they already had an iPhone app for booking travel, they're expanding to Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices, insisting that "the airline [is] one of the industry leaders in offering mobile services to users of smart phones."

We suppose an airline application might be a little more justified than a hotel app. Flying involves time-sensitive things like monitoring and checking into flights, while hotels pretty much just sit there and wait for you. But there are already convergence apps that include flight status checks and all the airline-specific stuff already exists on m.cathaypacific.com anyway, and you can't print your boarding pass from your phone anyways.

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Andy Warhol Grins In His Grave Over $2,500 Luggage Bearing His Name

September 23, 2009 at 1:08 PM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Between this Globe Trotter Warhol-branded luggage set and the Flight 001 chichi rent-a-luggage we covered a few months ago, we're starting to think that manufacturers are just trying to bait us. Are people really dropping thousands of dollars for something they check through at the front of the airport, only to pick up hours later when they're bleary eyed and jet lagged? Here's the deal on these pricey, limited-edition bags:

In association with the week-long Andy Warhol x Hysteric Glamour pop-up shop at the ISETAN store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku precinct, a marquee item... with three different sizes, each feature an all-black exterior while the inside features a Warholian skull motif with signature. The Andy Warhol x Hysteric Glamour pop-up shop on the 4th floor of ISETAN runs from the 16th till the 23rd of September.

True story: we have a writer at Jaunted HQ whose very first non-airport experience in Japan was at the world's busiest train station in Shinjuku. During rush hour. Dragging all his international luggage. Because our writer is not very smart. That's a whole other story howeve, and this post is about Warholian skulls on the inside of overpriced luggage sets. Just how overpriced, you ask?

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Jam It or Slam It: My New Brazilian Cargo Truck Tarp Hat

Where: Brazil
September 19, 2009 at 1:34 PM | by Victor Ozols | 0 Comments

So I got this new hat, and I think it's pretty neat. It's a Tarp Hat from a company called The Real Deal and it's made from the recycled tarpaulins of Brazilian cargo trucks that have traveled from the Amazon to Sao Paolo and back again. It's sturdy and has a nice wide brim, which is why I like it, as I'll take as much sun protection as I can get.

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Plonk Down $250 To Monitor Exactly How Many Calories You Burn Traveling

September 17, 2009 at 10:23 AM | by Omri | 0 Comments

Ancient nutritionists who roamed the savanah eons ago discovered a mathematical formula for losing weight: eat less calories than you burn. A few million years later, their descendants amended the formula: eat less calories than you burn, but don't assume you're burning much more than 2,000 calories per day because you're not. If the average person exercises really hard they can bump their calorie burning from 2,000 to 2,500 per day - roughly one extra soft drink with dinner. So mostly the magic secret to weight lose is to stop counting calories and just change your diet.

Or, alternatively, you could pay $250 for the bodybugg State-of-the-Art Calorie Management System, a web-enabled wristband that uses specialized sensors to monitor how many calories you're burning to 90% accuracy. It's a sedentary traveler's ultimate health device. Now you can know whether you burned 1,000 calories sitting on the plane or 1,010 calories, plus/minus 100 calories.

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Add Bedbug-Killing Spray To Your Packing List

September 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 1 Comment

If you're afraid of bedbugs biting during a hotel stay, go on the offensive against the blood-sucking critters. You can avoid places known for hosting the pests by running your hotel through the website www.bedbugregistry.com, or you can bring some reinforcements like Rest Easy, an all-natural spray that's supposed to keep bed bugs at bay.

There is reason for concern, as bedbug outbreaks are increasing at hotels, according to Crain's New York, which reported:

Last year the number of bed bug complaints from New Yorkers calling the city’s 311 hot line spiked 34% to 9,213 from the previous year. This year, the problem is not any better, according to companies that are called by apartment buildings and hotels to get rid of the pests.

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