Page 47 - Explore Magazine Spring 2017

Apps make travelling with kids easy 45
Settling in for hours of air travel? Help mix things up for your kids by
offering as many types of activities as cramped seating allows.
While on-board entertainment keeps the little ones busy and quiet
when you’re flying, waiting times for flights as well as car and bus
trips can also be long, so before you head off on holiday load up your
phone or tablet with a range of apps.
There’s a wide choice of apps today covering all sorts of interests
and catering for all ages so everyone is kept happy and occupied.
You can play virtual board games together, create books or solve
word puzzles. Or the kids can play their own games or puzzle apps to
keep them interested – and thinking. Then there’s always movies and
music to top the entertainment selection off. The days of “I spy with
my little eye” are long gone!

Stylish digital clutch bag
The Knomo Elektronista is a must-have clutch and cross-body bag for
the digital age, with individual compartments for phones and iPads,
including a padded inner section.
It also has a RFID protection-lined pocket that is essential for
storing your phone, bank cards and passport to protect against
identity theft.
Created in collaboration with Danish digital trends expert, Christiane
Vejlø, the bag has a detachable strap that can be worn cross-body
or carried as a clutch – and with a battery and cable included, phone
and iPad charging on the go are easy.
The Elektronista comes in a range of colours, in nylon and in leather,
and is ideal for those looking for an elegant yet extremely functional
cross-body and clutch bag to take them seamlessly from day to night.
Register your bag with Knomo and if someone finds the bag it can be
returned to the owner through the Knomo Web portal.

Laundry bags are a must for travelling
Koinobori travel laundry bags are a bright, fun way to keep
dirty laundry separated from clean clothes while travelling. The
handy-sized cotton bags are based on traditional Japanese “carp
streamers” or wind socks, which are flown to celebrate Children’s
Day. Just feed dirty clothes into the fish’s wide mouth and pull the
drawstring closed until laundry time. The bag fits into both carry-
on and larger suitcases.

Diary your holiday with an online journal
Handwritten travel diaries have been overtaken by the digital age
and Trip Journal is a great app option for storing holiday memoirs
and sharing real-time holiday experiences with family and friends.
Trip Journal includes Google Earth integration so at the click of a button
your viewers can see your travelling routes, visited destinations, photos,
videos, comments and notes as your journey unfolds.
The number of media items and blog entries that can be included is not
limited in any way, photos are shared in full size, and the recorded trip
information can be instantly shared. Photos can also be shared from Trip
Journal through Facebook, Flickr and Picasa, and videos can be directly
uploaded to YouTube. Photo and video comments that are linked with
media are uploaded to your favourite sharing portals as well. And you
can also use GPS tweeting to let your friends know exactly where you
are: it can be instantly viewed by everyone on Google Maps.

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