ADAM HARVEYrounds up the latest travel gadgets
Wheelie clever
Ever finished a heart-pumping cycle with a hankering for honey-glazed spare ribs? Me, neither, but I’m sure someone will eventually use the “go to nearest barbecue restaurant” function of the Garmin Edge 705 GPS-enabled bike computer (€450, Cycleways, Dublin, www.cycleways.ie). The rest of us will have to be satisfied with the clip-on computer’s other functions, such as route guidance and speed, distance, heart rate and calorie information. The computer also has a backlight for night cycling, and easy joystick navigation to toggle through the displays. Anyway, gotta go – it’s 142.2km to Gooses Barbecue in Waterford.
Washing and drying a sleeping bag is tricky, which is probably why a lot of campers don’t bother. Save the hassle with EX3 travel sleepers – silk bag liners impregnated with bug repellent and anti-odour treatment that’s supposed to last for two years or 35 washes. Mummy or rectangle design with double-stitched seams. (€45, www.lifeventure. co.uk)
Sony Ericsson’s MPS-100 portable speakers have enough kick to fill a bedroom, are powered by a mobile phone and pack together for storage into a cylinder that’s about the size of a case for a pair of reading glasses. Stowing the cables back into the case is a bit fiddly (€36, www.meteor.ie other phone retailers).