Some say our fear of drained batteries borders on a phobia. The condition manifests itself in many ways, including purchasing and lugging around spare batteries for various devices, packing AC adapters, protecting our iPhone with a case that contains an additional battery (Mophie Juice Pack Air), reducing screen brightness to almost unreadable levels, disabling useful [...]
For every excursion, be it overnight for work or two weeks for vacation, TTR packs a headlamp. Many have been field-tested, and the hands-down winner is the Energizer Trail Finder 7 LED Headlamp. It’s tremendously useful, and sufficiently inexpensive to keep one in every vehicle and travel bag. This light suffers from one minor fault, [...]
One item that is always worn or carried when TTR is out and about is a multi-tool. Unless airport security is on the itinerary, the multi-tool of choice is a Gerber, and the Gerber 01471 Suspension Butterfly Opening Multi-Plier continues Gerber’s rich tradition of building quality, usefulness, and value into its multi-tools. It does, however, have [...]