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travelgadgets Compiled and written by SATU JUSSILA Smarter travel ANYONE who has spent one too many nights alone in a foreign city during a business trip can appreciate how cool it would be to know if friends are in the same town at the same time. This is the genius behind Dopplr, which bills itself as "the online service for smarter travel." The service allows you to share travel plans with friends and brands that you trust. For example, let's say that you are about to travel to Beijing. With Dopplr, you can see how many of your acquaintances are in Beijing on the same day that you are. You can also find out about promotions at participating hotels and stores during your stay. Dopplr works on a personal computer or mobile device. The service links with online calendars and social networks, such as Facebook, Flickr or gmail. Sign-in, add your travel schedule and click on the names of those people Dopplr lets you know if your friends are travelling to the same town as you. whom you want to allow access to this information. Dopplr then tells you if there are any matches. The company has offices in London and Helsinki, as many of the investors and top management hail from Finland. www.dopplr.com E-booking on the road THESE DAYS a decision to travel is often made with very little notice. This means that booking a hotel also needs to be organised while on the run. Hotelzon Mobile allows users to search, book and cancel hotel rooms in real-time. The service includes more than 90,000 hotels worldwide in more than 150 countries. www.hotelzon.com Where'd I take that photo? EVER TAKE a photo on a mobile device only to wonder months later where it was taken? Avoid the guessing with the Nokia N78 (350), a quad-band GSM mobile with a 3.2 megapixel camera, along with lots of other bells and whistles. Using a feature called "geotagging," the N78 leaves an electronic map next to a photo, thus showing where it was taken. When you upload the photos through high-speed WLAN or HSDPA, you can also see the capture location metadata. With the Nokia N78, getting a satellite fix for searches is also much faster, thanks to the A-GPS technology. www.nokia.com Anna Bryukhanova With handbags, safety first EVERY WOMAN knows that leaving a handbag dangling from the back of a chair is an almost certain invitation to having it stolen. With the handbag hook (5), you can securely attach your bag to the underside of a table. That means that you never need to place your bag on the floor again which, by the way, not only makes for a dirty bag, but can also lead to poverty. Or so says the old wives tale that every woman is told by her mother at some point. The handbag hook, made by the Hollywood Purse Hook company, is available in Helsinki at Mecco, Kasarmikatu 23, +358 50 550 1123. www.hollywoodpursehook.com JANUARY 2009 BLUE WINGS 15
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