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Silicone Travel Bottle

10 people recommended this item

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Couldn't resist buying the Silicone Travel Bottle from New-York based designer Paul Koh. The translucent soft silicone makes it easy to fill with liquids, gels or creams, and the 2.0 ounces size complies with the ridiculous TSA carry-on rules. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Oct 23, 2007

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Le Cool Barcelona

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Named "Le COOL Changed My Life: A Weird And Wonderful Guide To Barcelona" this little red travel guide certainly keeps its promises being both Weird and Wonderful.

A great way to discover the Barcelona that doesn't consist only of Gaudi and dubious tapas in a tourist dive on Las Ramblas. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Feb 2, 2007

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Wallpaper* City Guides

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Created in collaboration between Phaidon and Wallpaper Magazine, the Wallpaper* City Guides are great travel guides for the design conscious. They were announced a few months ago, but they are finally available, and at $8.95 each, I couldn't resist grabbing Barcelona, Bangkok and Tokyo, one for each of the major destinations of my upcoming trip.

While they don't have the glossy pictures, maps and charts of larger travel books from National Geographics or DK, I find that their small size and discreet cover make them perfect guides to have in your pocket while you are visiting a city. I just love the clean layout, with tabs to jump to a given section, like Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping and Escapes. There is also a foldout city plan in the front cover, and a city map in the back, and even some blank, lined and squared pages at the end for you own notes and sketches. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Nov 21, 2006

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Moleskine City Notebook

28 people recommended this item

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All my friends have the travel bug ~ and this is definitely the perfect gift ~ perhaps coupled with the DK city guide, i can't imagine anything else they'd need... except possibly a translator. (via oO)

Updated Nov 19, 2006

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Virgin Galactic

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For a deposit of 20K and a ticket price of 200K USD (thankfully roundtrip) you can become a space tourist, and see the earth from space for a few minutes, before gravity pulls you back down again.

Compared to the 20 Millions that current space tourist pay to hitch a ride on the regular space program, it's a bargain. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Oct 14, 2006

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HOLUX GPSlim 236

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As part of my What's in my bag series. Yes, I admit I have a GPS in my backpack. Which means that if I want to, I can have the exact coordinate of my position on earth, with a precision of a few meters, and still be completely lost. The GPSlim was one of the first pocket sized bluetooth GPS with the new SirfIII chipset, which gives it greater accuracy, and the ability to work within "Urban Canyons" (who inventes these terms?) which means that I can use it int the city as well as on trips, where I can annoy my wife by taking bearings of interesting sites while on vacations.

The bluetooth part means that I can connect to it from my phone, a laptop, and my new phone as soon as I can convinced my self that an upgrade is no longer just a fantasy, but justified. (via oO's very eclectic)

Updated Jul 14, 2006

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Moleskine Notebook

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Finally succumbed to a lined Moleskin and just LOVE it...

Updated Oct 1, 2006

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Lamy Scribble

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There is something to be said about the feel of a well crafted pen or pencil when writing by hand, and LAMY certainly knows how to make nice pens. My favorites are the Scribble series. I have all 3 of them in silver and black. These are short but fat pens, 2 mechanical pencil in a 0.7mm when I'm thinking with the right side of brain, and another with a wonderfully thick 2.5mm lead for the left side. (yes, I know the whole right side, left side has been refuted scientifically but it still sounds really good). The third one is an roller pen, which I'm keeping around to sign important documents. Perfect companions for a little black Moleskine notepad.

Updated Jul 14, 2006

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