Business Travel Gadget Chrismas Wish List

 

Roadgladiator is asking for people to submit their business travel gadget christmas wish list. As I travel a lot and am definitely a “gadget” guy, this is somthing I wanted to talk about.

First, excluding my laptop, these are the gadgets that I already own and travel with now:

• Worldphone- mine is an Imate Jasjar. I get to use it for phone calls, but it is also a fully functional pocket PC. There is a lot to say about this phone, but what is nice about using it for travel is that it has standard 3.5″ plugs so you can use most standard headphones to use the phone as an MP3 player
• Sanyo Xacti C6 videocamera. This is a tiny videocamera which takes great video. The only issue with a videocamera of this size is that the video sometimes shakes. But the absolute best thing about this video camera is it’s size
• My digital camera, the Canon Powershot SD600. Just like the Sanyo videocamera this is a tiny unit which makes it perfect for travel. It is so small that I carry mine everywhere I go. I tried to use the Sanyo for pictures but the Canon pictures are much better.

One of the neat things about all three of these items is that they all use standard SD memory cards.

 So now for what I need…..I’m pretty sure that all of these technologies exist but I have not had the chance to look into them.

• I really need a GPS. I am terrible with directions and get lost all the time. However, I do not know whether I should get a bluetooth GPS so I can use the screen of my phone to view directions- or a handheld one with it’s own screen.
• Portable Card Scanner. I attend trade shows all the time and end up with hundreds of business cards. I would love a way to easily scan the cards into my computer when I go back to my hotel room instead of muddling through them when I get back to the office.
• I would like a watch which automatically changes time zones. I don’t know how many times I arrive somewhere and forget to change the time.
• An Ultraportable voice recorder which I could attach to my computer and transcribe my thoughts to a word document.

I hope that Santa will be nice to me this year… and if he isn’t…. well there are always the boxing day sales!