Packing your suitcase tends to be tricky as you obviously need to pack light while bringing all your travel essentials. The Ex Officio line of travel clothes provides a solution to this problem with their quick-drying garments – you can easily wash them and they’ll dry in a matter of hours. This means you don’t have to bring several sets of tops, pants, shorts and underwear. Styles are available for both men and women.

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Get ready for the great outdoors with the Eton Microlink. It is a radio, flashlight and mobile phone charger in one and is powered by cranking the lever. Not only is it useful for camping and outdoor trips but also handy during blackouts and disasters.

Available at Amazon.com for $40

The Fold-A-Carrier 5 gallon (20 liter) collapsible water container is made from polyethylene plastic that remains flexible even in extreme cold and high altitudes. The spigot design is easy-pour, leak-proof with an on/off feature. The sturdy handle folds down for compact storage. You can bring it with you to campings, mountain trekking and other outdoor activities.

Available at Amazon.com for $9.31

Vacationeers are not the only people enjoying views in tourist spots, but also thieves and pickpockets. Have one less thing to worry and keep your money, passport and other important travel documents safe with the Pacsafe Venturesafe 200 Compact Travel Bag. Its strap and body are slash-proof and secured with metal mesh to deter the most persistent of pickpockets. This lightweight and roomy bag is available at Amazon.com

Show off your quirky style when traveling with the Crumpler Freestanding Edwardian Luggage. It has reinforced sides and base, waterproof shell, laptop pockets, a backpack and a laundry bag. Its ultra glide wheels makes it extremely easy to lug around the airport, plus it can freely stand on its own.

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Though we’ve enjoyed a lot of netbook, UMPC, ultra portable or watchamacallit lately, we’ve yet to see a mini laptop that looks as good as it performs. With the Lenovo IdeaPad S10, we hope the search is over. It comes in white but doesn’t look like a VTech toy, has a whopping 160 GB of hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, a 1.6 GHz atom Intel processor and thankfully is installed with good ‘ol Windows XP. The selling price is $470, or around 23,000 Philippine pesos. We just wish the peso dollar would improve so we can really enjoy this new tech toy in the Philippines.

Lenovo Idea Pad S10

The Canon G10 is here! This new iteration to Canon’s mid-range cameras sports a 5x optical zoom and 14.7 megapixels. It is priced at $500 at Canon USA’s website. Since the G9 is still being sold here in the Philippines for around 30 grand, we are estimating the G10 will be sold at around 35 thousand bucks. So much for being midrange, just cough up a little more money and you could get a decent digital SLR.

To make these piece of a gadget water and sand-proof, Canon separately offers a waterproof casing for the G10.

The Wall Street Journal confirms rumours that Dell is joining the low-cost UMPC wars. The Dell Mini is rumored to have a less than 9-inch screen and will run on a choice of Windows or Linux. The UMPC is expected to retail for less than $400 dollars. We believe it will be sold at around 20,000 pesos here in the Philippines.

[via Engadget]

The onslaught of low-priced UMPCs like Asus Eee, Acer AspireOne, MSI Wind and HP 2133 in the market had Fujitsu send its new models of UMPCs. The U Series is stylishly finished with a high-gloss surface. It has a 5.6 inch screen at 1280 x 800 pixels – so far the highest for a UMPC. It runs on an Intel Atom processor at 1.6 GHz. The RAM is extendable to 1 GB and the hard disk to 120 GB. The UMPC weighs around 1.3 pounds and has a swivel screen to double as a tablet PC. The Fujitsu U series retails from $1500.

This backpack from Tech Air is as an organization-freak’s dream. It has compartmentalized pouches for CDs, pens, A4 documents, iPod and other thing-a-majigs. The bag is made of water-proof synthetic and there is a clever opening for iPod earphones so you could still listen to your tunes while your iPod is tucked inside. Though it is clearly a laptop bag, it only comes in one size and cannot fit in notebooks bigger that a 13-inch macbook. It costs $72.