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THE ROAD WARRIORS

ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

TRANSPORTATION, AMERICANS MAKE MORE THAN 405
MILLION LONG-DISTANCE BUSINESS TRIPS PER YEAR. HERE

ARE THREE PRODUCTS TO MAKE LOGGING ALL THOSE MILES
A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE AND HASSLE-FREE.

BOTTLE ROCKET
One way to speed through security at the airport is to

make sure liquids packed in your carry-on are compliant.
Practicing the Transportation Security Administration’s

“3-1-1” rule—3.4 ounce bottle; one quart-size, clear,
plastic zip-top bag; and one bag per passenger—will get

you to the gate faster. These compliant GOTOOB bottles
from Humangear are approved for air travel, they feature

no-drip valves, and they come with a lifetime warranty.
[$10 / humangear.com]

A SPACE ODYSSEY

Traveling is stressful enough
without having to think about if
you brought enough clothes for

the trip or if the inside of your
bag is a disorganized mess of
POWER RANGER
balled-up shirts and creased
slacks. The Spacepack system In addition to a photo ID and your wallet,
something you never want to leave home with-
from Flight 001 solves all those
packing problems by compart- out is a power cord for your wireless devices.
But there isn’t always an outlet to plug into when
mentalizing your stuff in neat
packages that compress up to your battery is dying. The Satechi Portable En-
ergy Station solves that problem by giving you
two weeks’ worth of outits.
Spacepack also keeps your a power source to charge up your smartphone
dirty garments separate from and tablet, no matter where you are. Perfect

clean items, and reduces for multi-tasking road warriors, the two USB
wrinkling so you don’t have
outputs allow you to charge multiple devices at
the same time.
to spend your downtime
ironing in your hotel room. [$60 / satechi.net]

[$46 / light001.com]

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