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Paul Revel looks at travel-friendly gadgets, services and products
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Flip Video Ultra
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3M MPro110 micro projector ★★★★★
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★★★★★ USER FRIENDLY: I’m allergic to those instruction
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FOOLPROOF: This manuals the size of War and Peace – so getting to grips
little gadget has a refreshing lack of with this mini projector was a breeze. Apart from the health
spaceship-style controls and idiot-proof and safety bumph, there’s little to read: charge it, plug it in
operation. The Flip Ultra is a simple and and turn it on. There’s just an on/off switch and a focus
lightweight pocket-sized camcorder. knob – some users say they’d prefer more fine tuning to get
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WEB 2.0 GENERATION: It’s a better image.
causing quite a lot of interest here at
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LIGHTWEIGHT: Roughly the size of a BlackBerry and
TTG Towers because it’s going to make just a few grams heavier (152g), it’s great for giving
life easier for reporters creating videos impromptu presentations (such as PowerPoint etc) from
for our websites. For today’s journalists your laptop, when you haven’t got access to meeting room
and media professionals, video is the facilities. All you need is a patch of white wall – and some
new copy, so one of these is becoming as curtains: it’s not as bright as you’d ideally want, and only
essential as a notepad and speedy shorthand. works really effectively in the dark. The battery lasts pretty
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YOUTUBE SPIELBERGS: The same applies to anyone well: I had it on constant slideshow for 40mins before it
whose business involves a website – ie practically everyone. began to dim. And you can leave it plugged into the mains.
And of course it’s good for bloggers. The Flip has quick and
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OPTIONAL EXTRA: For really decent presentations, I’d
easy uploading to the online file-sharing sites, and it has definitely recommend buying a mini-tripod to screw into its
very basic editing tools, including automatic “movie base: otherwise your image will be wonky and shaky.
making” with funky styles and colours, and you can add a
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WORK AND PLAY: It can also plug into cameras, iPods
soundtrack. Of course, nearly every mobile phone has video etc for more fun stuff – though I expect it will be more
recording on it, but this does seem to produce clearer,
Traveller’s
popular as a business tool: just under £300 is a lot of money
sharper footage with greater ease.
choice:
for a toy. There’s a video on the product’s
what
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PLUG AND PLAY: Here’s how easy it is: I filmed a brief website, which despite being very cheesy,
stroll around the Greenwich peninsula to the 02 Dome, and would you like gives you a good idea of the
then uploaded it onto YouTube and embedded the clip on
to see reviewed
potential range of uses for
my blogsite – all with minimal shouting and swearing at my
on this page?
this innovative device.
laptop (apart from a minor tantrum involving a forgotten ✱ 3M MPro110 micro
YouTube password). If I can do it anyone can.
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projector, £292.64.
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wellbeing
Reviewed… called Travel Ease, by departure lounge aromas of maximum that evening.
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Here’s a tiny little gem aromatherapy specialist travel: stale air-conditioning, strength leave-in The product
that could give some Tisserand. tedium and impatience. conditioner that comes in quirky
measure of comfort when Its ingredients – essential ✱Travel Ease (10ml), gives protection packaging like an
you’re feeling laid low oils of grapefruit, bergamot £4.50, tisserand.com from salt water, NHS prescription
by travel and ethically harvested Meanwhile, my colleague chlorine and sun. cream, which
– especially lemon leaf – are claimed to Philippa Jacks has kindly It is to be might not appeal
if you’re a give you a burst of vitality gone all the way to St Lucia applied to wet to all. But the large
believer in the and uplift. A big claim, but to test this new hair-care hair just after tube is enough for
restorative it certainly does smell lovely; product for you... you’ve washed several applications,
powers of medicinal and feel-good at
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Philip Kingsley’s it (which is when I’m in fact making it not
aromatherapy. the same time. Swimcap – don’t be put least likely to jump straight unreasonably priced for
It’s a Mumbo jumbo aside, a off by the name: this is not in a pool), but it smelt good such a quality product.
lightweight whiff of this does indeed some strange squeeze-on and made my hair shiny ✱ Priced at £17 from
roll-on tube waft you away from those hat in a tube. It is a and soft when I washed it philipkingsley.com
....Hotel reviews: Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Perth and Paris – see p43
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