I made an interesting find at Fry’s shortly before my recent trip to Europe- Monster’s Outlets to Go. (This isn’t an advertising blog, really!) I hadn’t really considered taking my own power strip along before but it actually turned out to be a really handy thing to have.
I like to have all the comforts of home when I’m traveling (i.e. internet access and all my various electronic gadgets). Unfortunately that requires toting along a bunch of power adapters. The problem you face when you have to take along a power supply for the laptop, camera battery charger, camcorder power supply, phone power adapters, etc is that the wall outlet plug adapters (or even finding enough outlets in your hotel room) become a hassle. Why not carry one plug adapter and then plug all your gadgets into an North America-type power strip? Much simpler, no hunting for more outlets, save space packing, and really no extra cost over buying a couple extra plug adapters. Monster’s is designed to be compact. I got the 6 outlet strip- 3 outlets per side, spaced far enough apart so that the “wall wart” type transformers won’t block their neighbors, cord is low profile and winds onto itself/self stores.
One downside: it’s Monster and that means it’s pricy. But at least with this one you get a good design for the extra ca$h.
Tags: travel
