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Tom's of Maine: Debatable Deodorant Strength But Now TSA-Approved
If you consider yourself a green traveler, then you make sure your flight has been carbon neutralized, you request that housekeeping refrain from washing your sheets during your hotel stay, you eat at sustainable restaurants and you take public transportation whenever you can.
We're guessing that if you make this much of an effort when you're traveling, you're probably doing way more when you're at home. And we're guessing that if we peeked into your medicine cabinet we would probably find some Tom's of Maine personal care products stashed in there.
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Is Verizon's Droid The Newest Cutting-Edge Travel Gear?
Not since the iPhone launch has a phone generated as much across-the-board hype as Verizon's new Droid handset. The full-keyboard 6oz. handset has seen a flood of glowing reviews from the geek community. Gizmodo: "it’s this simple: if you don’t buy an iPhone, buy a Droid." LA Times: "best Google phone on the market....best phone on Verizon." Boy Genius Report: "perfect storm between awesome hardware, great software, and a great network." Fair enough. But how does the Droid rate as travel gear?
Turns out, pretty well. Very well actually. There are even arguments to be made that a couple of the Droid's most prominent features are both targeted at travelers, whether they're taking road trips or traveling internationally, and are better than what any competitor can offer. Even that phone with the little apple on it.
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Get A Jump On Holiday Shopping With The Top 5 Travel Gear Stocking Stuffers
Usually we take a pass on these kinds of cookie-cutter holiday-themed Top 5 lists, if only because they get in the way of our much more nuanced iPhone Top 5 lists. But we felt inspired after seeing this season's billionth travel gear list with a moleskine journal or a foldable alarm clock.
On the very slim chance that you're shopping for a traveler who isn't a hipster but does have a cell phone that doubles as an alarm clock, herein are some reasonably cheap stocking stuffers and one unreasonably expensive one. Because it's already the post-Halloween shopping season. You're already behind, aren't you?
The Top 5 Travel Gear Stocking Stuffers, after the jump.
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Kijubi.com Offers Holiday Gifts for Thrill-Seeking Travelers
As the holiday countdown begins, it's time to start shopping, like it or not. If you have an adventure traveler in your life, or heck, just want to reward yourself with a present, we suggest checking out the gift certificates for Kijubi.com. The website offers tickets for activities as diverse as bike tours, skydiving lessons and off-road jeep tours.
The drawback is that as of now, the site only caters to travelers heading to California, Nevada and Florida. But hardcore thrill seekers will head to those states just to participate in recreational activities such as air combat. Yes, air combat as a recreational activity. You get to fly real military planes under the guidance of active-duty Marine Corps and Navy fighter pilots. Although the pilots do the flying, you'll get to call the shots for the plan of attack.
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Five Travel Gear Companies That Give Back To The World
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?
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'
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
