New Cool Gadget Find of Today:

Walkie talkie watches - Walkie talkie watches are a great way to keep in contact with your travel companions. No more holding a walkie talkie in your hand to communicate with your friends, just talk into your watch like the great spies of the movies and cartoons. Some of these have an option where you do not even have to press a button to talk as they are voice activated.
Since these double as a cool digital wrist watch, you have one less thing to pack. Actually, it would be at least two less things to pack as you would need more than one walkie talkie to communicate. Hence you would not need to find a place for them or look for them in the backpack. Moreover, the walkie talkie watches come with recharchable Li-ion battery and include an AC adapter. So you would not need to replace or carry extra batteries with you on the trip.
As most combos go, you would not expect much of these in terms of functionality either as a watch or a walkie talkie. However, suprisingly these have great features such as LCD display, multiple channels, and a communication range of 5-6 km (3-4 miles). A lot of these also include earpieces for even more covert conversations. With so many cool features these could be great for communicating between cars on a road trip, keeping track of your family or friends while camping, at amusement parks, and much more

Walkie talkie watcheson amazon.com

Spill-proof your travel - long or short

Here is an article on Realsimple.com that describes 10 cool, convenient, and also advance travel mugs that keep you from spilling your tea and coffee while commuting or longer travels and some also tell you the time and prevent from burning your tongue:
10 Spill-Proof Travel Mugs

Digital Luggage Weighing Scales Review on TechyZone

New Cool Gadget Find:

  Today I came across a review for a cool digital luggage scale. I thought I would share this as a follow up to "Portable Luggage Scale" post. The review is by TechyZone blog for the long-named No-More-Excess Digital Luggage Weighing scales. "...The No-More-Excess Funky is one of the best looking baggage weighing scales on the market today. It also happens to be one of the lightest and easiest to use, and may just go on to become the ultimate travel accessory for frequent fliers..."

http://www.techyzone.com/reviews/luggage-weghing-scales-no-more-excess/

Online sites and apps to help plan your trip

The Geek's Travel Guide: 25 Online Apps to Help Plan Your Trip
This guide includes some great information with some useful sites and apps that make traveling more fun and informed. Sites such as GasBuddy, Traffic and Google Maps are those that I use quite often myself. GasBuddy gives you a great overview of gas stations that are nearby and might have the lowest prices or at least closest to your location. I used to use Traffic.com to check out traffic flow before starting driving. Though I forgot to do so quite often. Recently I started using Google Maps instead, which overlays current traffic conditions over the driving directions you are currently viewing. And if I really want to make sure the conditions are good to go, I compare Google traffic with Traffic.com. Maybe too much, though they are quite often different from each other. Hmmm
I will be also checking out Ask City mapping site as I did not know it existed, actually I didn’t realize Ask was still around.
What are some of the apps and sites do you use on regular basis to plan out your trip?