Baby Boomer Travel Tips and Gadgets

Travel Tips and Gadgets for Baby Boomers

Getaways such as international cruises, golfing vacations in the summer, skiing in the winter and leisure trips to Hawaii are awesome. However, they come with some dangers, especially air travel to destinations such as Hawaii. Flight to Hawaii is about 10 hour long. Deep vein thrombosis is caused by seating in the same spot for extended period of time, this is a condition in which a blood clot forms in a vein deep beneath the skin, typically in the leg or pelvic area.

Travel Boom Sparks Blood Clot Warning
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/18831322/travel-boom-sparks-blood-clot-warning/

Risk factors for deep vein thrombosis include:
Sitting for longer than 6 to 8 hours, such as during a trip in a car or plane.
Having limited mobility due to a medical issue, surgery, or paralysis.
Having an injured vein from a bone fracture, severe muscle injury, trauma, or major surgery (especially involving the abdomen, pelvis, hip, or legs).
Having a tube placed in a vein for medication or other treatment, such as a central venous catheter.
Having heart failure or cancer in the abdomen.
Being pregnant, taking birth-control pills, or taking prescription hormones for menopause symptoms.
Having a family history of clots.
Being overweight or obese, having high blood pressure, or being a smoker.
Having certain genetic or inherited blood-clotting disorders, such as Factor V Leiden.

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Best way to protect yourself is to try to prevent DVT by following a healthy lifestyle, including exercising regularly, losing excess weight, and not smoking. Drinking plenty of water on the plane is important to make sure you have good circulation. You can get water from the beverage cup and you should do that at frequent intervals. Moving around, whenever it is safe to do so, is also important on a long trip. If you're trapped in a window seat and can't get the snoring person beside you to move, stretch in your seat. Pedal your feet up and down to stretch your calves, and raise your hands above your head. Keeping the blood flowing will make you feel less stiff later on, and can also help prevent deep vein thrombosis.

What tips do you have for prolonged trips? Let us know below

Circulator Compression Socks
This wearable travel accessory enhance circulation in your legs when sitting for extended period of time. They're tight in the right places to increase blood flow, reducing your risk
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A new device, Geko by UK based Sky Medical, 
is a wristwatch sized product that stimulates the peroneal nerve via electrical signals leading to muscle activation of the lower limb, that has shown evidence of increased blood-flow in the femoral vein. Preventing venous stasis can potentially lead to less clot formation.
http://www.medgadget.com/2011/12/a-new-device-to-prevent-those-deep-vein-clots.html

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7 Things To Know in Travel and Gadgets

7 Things To Know in Travel and Gadgets

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Travel accessories for your iPhone, iPad and Cell Phones!


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Smartie Watches - Wrist Watch Reincarnation

Smartie Watches

As predicted in the post I wrote awhile back, New Cool Gadget Find of Today: Wrist watches making a comeback?, watches are back on the scene and soon back on our wrists. These re-imagined watches tell time, but this functionality is no longer the main feature. Smart watches give you faster and sometimes more convenient access to data, updates, email, and social media.

Samsung’s “Galaxy Gear” Smartwatch
- will debut on September 4th

Apple iWatch

LG Watch Phone
http://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/lg-GD910-watch-phone

Kreyos Meteor
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Cool Travel Gadgets That can Stand the Test of Time

Cool Travel Gadgets for your phone and more:

New phones seem to hit the market every few months. And that is just for one manufacturers. Combining all makes and models, a new phone comes out in about every few weeks. It is hard to keep up with the newest versions of the smartphones, though it is even harder to make sure that the accessory you just got for your phone would still be valid after some time.

These gadgets and accessories would stand the test of time (at least for a little longer):

What accessories do you have that you think would be soon obsolete?

Bluetooth wireless speakers
- every new smartie phone comes with Bluetooth standard. It is how they easily connect to your headset, car audio, and speakers. This means that the new phones coming out in the next few months would be able to connect to these cool portable speakers

Bose® SoundLink® Bluetooth Mobile Speaker


Jawbone JAMBOX Wireless Bluetooth Speaker


Digital Camera
While smartphones have been imposing on the camera market for awhile, they are still no match for a good DSLR or a great waterproof camera like the ones below

Panasonic Lumix Waterproof


Nikon COOLPIX Waterproof


Canon EOS 5D Mark II


Nikon D3100 DSLR



Tablet, by no other name than iPad
Based on some recent (unscientific) tests by CNET "The five toughest gadgets you can buy," iPad can withstand quite a bit and still keep on going, making a great travel gadget that would last. Not only that, there are more and more apps being developed for it that work on several versions as well as software updates that make it relevant and improve performance. Also there have not been significant alterations to this line from Apple for quite awhile. I have my iPad 2 and I would not be able to tell nor have had any desire to upgrade to iPad 3.

Cocoon GRID-IT Organizer
- No matter what the gadgets are or the accessories that they come with, when you travel you need to get them organized. This device keeps your gadgets, wires, thumb drives, earphones and more in one place.


Travel Phone Chargers
Most chargers have a USB plug in on their body. And since every phone these days comes with a charging cord that has a USB male unit at one of its ends, the chargers would last past your multiple gadget changes.
Mophie powerstation mini - charge virtually any smartphone, along with a variety of other USB devices.

Mophie's Juicepack is compatible with the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Phones, and even the HTC One


iGo Power Trip 4700
compatible with most electronic devices by Apple, HTC, Samsung, Blackberry, Amazon, Google, Nokia, GoPro, and more. Recharge iGO Portable Battery 4700 using the included USB to Micro USB cable.



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