650g of Gadgets

The first and most important part of our luggage after passports and credit cards is our little technology park. Over the last few months we have invested in a few items that will allow us to stay connected with the rest of the world anywhere there is a Wifi or GSM signal. Weight is going to be a main issue in our moving around so bringing a computer was going to be a problem. Therefore we have acquired a reduced version of a laptop, a Nokia N800 internet tablet that will allow us to go online, do text editing, skyping, transferring images and last but not least blogging! To go along with it we bought a Freedom Universal Keyboard (bluetooth), to make it easier to do the text based things.

As a camera, we went for a Sony Cybershot DSC-W50. No bigger than a credit card, it has a long battery life. Not the latest in the series so the price was reasonable as well.

The most innovative gadgets though are the ones related to the indispensable mobile phone. First the phone itself: a Cubic Telecom Wifi phone that allows us to use both VoIP calls which work out about 1c per minute world wide (if we are in an open Wifi zone), and normal GSM calls.
Second, the sim inside the phone is a MaxRoam sim. MaxRoam is a product of Cubic Telecom, which as it happens is based here in Cork. With this sim we can make much cheaper calls than if we were roaming with our own local provider, Vodafone (See Brendan's blog entry for a comparison between the two). Moreover we can associate both Irish and Italian number with a single sim which means that not only do we save money but so do our friends and families.
All the gadgets fit comfortably into our pockets without the need of a special piece of luggage and their total weight amount to 650g.