7 Gadgets to Make Your Summer Getaway More Fun, Safe and Memorable
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Planning the perfect summertime getaway? In addition to ensuring to pack all of your everyday essentials like clothing, toiletries, snacks and accessories are packed and ready to go, you might also want to consider equipping yourself with a few powerful tech tools to ensure your safety, security and help you make the absolute most of your travel experience.
Whether you’re planning to hit the open road, the open sky or even set sail on the open sea, there’s an abundance of cutting-edge technologies out there designed to ensure your summertime fun is the best and most memorable experience of the year. Press the right arrow to learn more about 7 intuitive tech toys designed to enhance your summertime fun and safety.
7 Be Prepared for Emergencies
If you’re planning a drive to your ideal vacation spot this summer, then you may want to consider equipping yourself and your family with this must-have Emergency safety kit.
Perfect for tucking away behind a sun visor, in the trunk or underneath a seat, this survival kit contains all you need to be fully prepared for the unexpected. With its useful 3-in-1 T3 Tactical Triage and Rescue Tool boasting a knife, a seat belt cutter, a window punch, and a tactical flashlight — along with all the essentials you’ll need to provide spur-of-the-moment First Aid care for yourself or your injured passengers — this kit embodies the epitome of “being prepared.”
Designed by First Responders and packed with a wealth of useful, potentially life-saving tools and supplies, this kit is a must-have for summertime road trips and will ensure you’re ready to roll with all you’ll need in case of Emergency. $45.99 (29% OFF)
6 Enjoy Your Private Time
Apple’s truly wireless AirPods are among the company’s most revolutionary and best-selling accessories for music and media-loving iPhone users. Unless you’ve got deep pockets to the tune of $160+ just laying around, AirPods may be be out-of-reach for your budget — regardless of how useful they are in helping you enjoy your favorite tunes in the car, or on a plane
Fortunately, now there’s Air Buds — a much more cost-effective, and nearly as capable a solution to Apple’s AirPods. Not only do these wireless earbuds sport a design remarkably similar to Apple’s (including their specially-designed charging case), but they also boast some inherently powerful technologies for 1/5 of the price.
Boasting full Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity for uninterrupted audio playback, Air Buds leverage an industry-leading CVC 6.0 noise cancellation standard for filtering outside noise and distractions — while their amply-equipped wireless charging case enables you to carry an extra 10 full charges. For more info, be sure to read our Air Buds overview. $29.99 (75% OFF)
5 Find Your Keys, Crack Open a Cold one
Whatever journey awaits you and your loved ones this summer, you’ll definitely want to ensure you stay in possession of your keys at all times. Luckily, with the KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location in your pocket or purse, you’ll always know exactly where they are — even in the event you find yourself scouring for them in a frantic frenzy.
Not only Does the KeySmart Pro allow you to organize up to 10 full-size keys in a pocketable organizer (complete with an external key fob for your car key, a bright LED flashlight for seeing in the dark, and useful utilities like a bottle opener and more) but this intuitive gadget also packs the power of Tile’s award-winning location tracking technology, allowing you to easily locate it on your iPhone, iPad or Android device in the event it winds up lost or stolen.
Powered by the Tile app and easily rechargeable via a standard micro USB cable, this must-have accessory has been lauded by tech review blogs including CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo and more. $49.99 (16% OFF)
4 Keep Track of Your Belongings
What do your wallet, keys, cellphone, and other essential items all have in common? Well, they’re easily misplaced, to be sure — but with powerful tools like the Nut Find 3 smart tracker, you can help ensure that in the event you lose any of those valuable items, that they won’t be gone for very long.
Small, discreet, and thin; you can easily slip a Nut Find 3 smart tracker into your wallet, purse, attached to your keys, the back of your cellphone or essentially anything else you may be worried about losing while you’re adventuring abroad. Nut Find 3’s intuitive app-based location tracking technology will ensure you’re able to quickly locate your lost items.
Available in one-, two-, or even four-piece sets, the Nut Find 3 smart tracker is an essential tool for those worried about the potential of misplacing their most important belongings. $19.99 (20% OFF)
3 Get the Perfect Photo
Wherever your summertime adventure takes you, chances are you’re going to be snapping a ton of photos with your smartphone or camera along the way, ensuring all those precious memories are well-documented forever. And with a versatile accessory like the ARMOR-X Mini Flexible Phone Tripod, you’ll be able to capture truly dynamic photos and videos like never before.
Featuring flexible legs and sturdy rubber gripped feet, allowing you to affix it to your dashboard, wrap it around a pole, streetlight, sign or place it essentially anywhere there’s a surface to cling to, this intuitive Tripod-style smartphone mount/camera stand is a mobile photo junkie’s dream-come-true and allows for capturing photos from a variety of angles in essentially any environment. Featuring a wireless Bluetooth-enabled shutter button for taking the perfect shots from afar, this compact accessory is designed to work with any smartphone thanks in part to its collapsible, flexible design. $19.99 (42% OFF)
2 Record All of Your Wildest Adventures
For mobile photography enthusiasts who’d prefer a more action-packed apparatus with which to capture photos or videos on the fly, Neva Tech’s HD Wide-angle Waterproof Camera is the perfect companion to meet and exceed your needs.
Featuring a sharp 12 MP sensor capable of capturing still photos or videos in 1080p HD resolution, this palm sized camera is designed for snapping action-packed photos and videos no matter where the adventure takes you — even if your destination is under the sea!
With a total of 3 mounting attachments included, you’ll be able to attach this HD camera to essentially any surface including doors, dashboards, helmets, or even your wrist to capture crisp and clear, jitter-free shots on-demand. $43 (71% OFF)
1 Take Cool Aerial Photos and Videos
Drones are becoming incredibly popular gadgets, used to capture photos and videos from almost any angle, height or orientation like a true pro — and the TRNDlabs Spectre Drone is designed like no other, giving you an unprecedented level of control over your photo/video escapades.
Optimized for stability with its four (4) high-speed propellers, HD camera allowing for crisp, vivid photo and video capture, and an impressive 50 meter range, this Drone allows you to explore your world in stunning detail, capturing truly remarkable footage you’d simply never be able to achieve with a camera on the ground.
Featuring multiple modes of operation for beginner and expert pilots, along with a myriad of useful bells and whistles like advanced fly assist features, built-in LED lights for capturing footage after dark, and the ability to perform 360-degree ‘Drone acrobatics’ to capture stunning footage in the air, this awesome device is essential for anyone looking to document their adventures from a truly unique point-of-view. $99.99 (33% OFF)