• MacBook: Apple recently updated its baseline 13-in. MacBook with a unibody polycarbonate shell for added strength and style. Inside, an efficient LED-backlit screen helps lift battery life to seven hours and provides instant full-screen brightness the moment you turn it on. The new MacBook is greener than previous models, having eliminated harmful toxins like mercury and now using arsenic-free glass. Among its other consumer-friendly features is a spacious glass trackpad that registers multiple-finger inputs like two-finger swipes (for up or down) and four-finger swipes (to choose among open applications).
• Zipcar iPhone App (free): Some trips are well planned; others happen on a whim. For the whimsy in you, there’s Zipcar, which offers its members quick, cheap, hassle-free car rental on short notice. So when your afternoon meeting is canceled during a business trip to San Francisco, your boss may sulk and head back to the hotel, but you can be tooling around Napa in a Zipcar. The Zipcar iPhone app amplifies the quickness and ease of this process. Beyond helping you manage reservations, find nearby pickup locations and browse car models available, the app offers clever capabilities like remote locking and unlocking and honking your car’s horn from your phone when you inevitably forget what it looks like in a crowded lot.
• Yelp iPhone App (free):One of the coolest things about traveling is the chance to try new restaurants. You can’t really rely on airline magazines or those in-room hotel “city guides” for the skinny on where to go, but you can rely on other munchers. The iPhone app connected to Yelp’s social-review platform lets you access the wisdom of the highly opinionated Internet masses for dining tips. From there, the Yelp app’s “Nearby” feature shows you in both list and map format which recommended restaurants are close by. Or you can bookmark the best spots to check out at a later time.
• iPod touch: Big portable gaming devices are nearly obsolete as ever more high-quality games are developed for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is why the 32-GB iPod Touch is perfect for long-haul flights or everyday commutes. We like the 32-GB model over the 8-GB because it has four times the memory, a speedier processor and voice control to direct your music. A built-in battery provides up to 30 hours of music playback or six hours of video playback, with storage for as many as 7,000 songs or 40 hours of video. Couple that with the MiFi hotspot, and you have instant access to more than 1 million apps and games likes GeoDefense Swarm, Wurdle, ATV Offroad and Cooking Dash. It’s got so much to enjoy, you may be the last one to leave the plane.
•Joby Gorillamobile: It can be a pain to hold your iPod for extended periods while trying to watch a movie. Now there’s the Joby Gorillamobile, which offers hands-free viewing in just about any situation. Its flexible, wrappable legs virtually secure your device of choice to just about any surface — body parts withstanding, but we haven’t tried — in any position you see fit. It’s easily packable and works with a wide variety of devices, including but not limited to mobile phones, GPS units and digital cameras.
See the full list which also inexplicably omits iPhone (despite containing iPhone apps!) but includes the iPhone wannabe of the moment, Motorola’s Droid (“Pre”sumably because TIME wanted to jump on the bandwagon before this one, too, falls apart), here.
Don’t leave home without it.
Last time I used AE, my ticket purchase went through, then I received an email with following !
Don’t leave home with it, your account has been closed!!
So some of the GADGETS are APPS?? No wonder we love you Time.
That’s right;
Don’t think of travelling to a foreign country without electronic devices you can stare at, instead of having to look at a different lands and cultures!
When I go to Nepal, I want to spend all my time poking my friends on Facebook!
What’s there to do in Paris, other than sit in my hotel room reading CNN online all day and night?!
Ay yi yi.
Yelp and Zipcar apps need an iPhone. But the iPhone is not on the list. Oh well, I suppose you just take the iPhone apps with you on the trip and leave your iPhone at home.
Sid,
It seems implied that the iPhone is an indispensable travel gadget by default. In other words, the one you have to have before you step your foot out the door; so they list all the best travel gadgets to make the trip better.
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At first I thought that too, but I guess they probably thought its a no-brainer to list the iPhone. Afterall, would they also need to remind you to bring your charger, your keys, a map and passports along too?
I wonder if the iPhone was their pick for 2008.
” iPod touch: Big portable gaming devices are nearly obsolete as ever more high-quality games are developed for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is why the 32-GB iPod Touch is perfect for long-haul flights or everyday commutes. We like the 32-GB model over the 8-GB because it has four times the memory, a speedier processor and voice control to direct your music.”
I guess Time mag doesn’t know about the 64GB iPod Touch!
The best magazines for the iPhone/iPod Touch and practically any other are at http://eyemags.com. Once installed on the iPhone it does not need to go online to get more so you can read them on planes. There are 9,000 magazines to choose from.
What’s even better is at the desktop site you can create your own magazines/apps for anyone to read.
Owning an iPhone obviously goes without saying.
Algunas de las excursiones están bien planificadas, y otros suceden a su antojo. Para la fantasía en ti, no hay Zipcar, que ofrece a sus miembros rápido sas certification exam questions, barato, sin problemas de alquiler de auto gratis en poco tiempo. Así que cuando tu sesión de la tarde se cancela durante un viaje de negocios a San Francisco, su jefe puede ponerse de mal humor y regresar al hotel, pero puede estar java dumps dando vueltas en un Zipcar Napa. La aplicación para el iPhone Zipcar amplifica la rapidez y la facilidad de este proceso. Más allá de ayudar a gestionar las reservas, encontrar lugares braindump security+ de recogida cercano y navegar modelos de automóviles disponibles, la aplicación ofrece capacidades scwcd inteligentes como control remoto de bloqueo y desbloqueo y tocando bocina de su auto desde su teléfono al que inevitablemente se olvide lo que parece en un lote lleno de gente.
I do my share of traveling (API) and find that my iPhone plus a couple of well-selected apps are enough to get the job done most of the time.
It’s strange that the iPhone wasn’t included, since its connectivity isn’t limited to Wi-Fi as the Sunday morning chords touch is. It’s even stranger that several apps also made the list, like Yelp (tap the masses for dining tips) [iTunes link] and the Zipcar App (find a quick-domain Monitoring Applicationeasy rental), but not the device that would get the most out of them. Perhaps it was the high cost of service for the iPhone?
Stranger still is their inclusion of the Droid. We assume it made the cut based upon Modern Tank Development its proven track record. I mean, it’s been out for a whole 3 days now.