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Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-would-phileas-take dept.

ryrw writes "I'm planning to spend a year backpacking around the world and the hardest question I have to answer is: What technology do I take with me? Aside from the obvious (digital camera, ipod, et. al.) what technological devices would you you take? Specifically, I wonder if I should bring my nice and shiny MacBook Pro. I can think of lots of uses for it (offloading pix, updating weblog, email, etc.), but I'm worried it will be lost or stolen along the way. Does anyone have experience with travel while toting technology?"

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  1. A zippo cigarette lighter by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    You dont really know when you will be surrounded by stone age natives planning to include you in their dinner plans. I have it in high authority that if you could show you control fire, they might mistake you for God. Since you are not bound by the prohibition against "impersonating a deity" unlike the protocol droids of the C3 series .... Dont leave home without a cigarette lighter.

    --
    sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
  2. Re:I say take the MacBook by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

    nobody gives a fuck about Apple outside the US...

    You won't come home with it. Someone will stab you in the head and take it.

    Typical PC user. Always contradicting themselves.

    I tease.

    Dude. Decaff. Seriously.

  3. A towel!! by CodeMunch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make sure you pack a towel. (and GPS!)

    1. Re:A towel!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Heres the definative list:
          One .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

  4. Re:Travel as light as you possibly can by Maxwell · · Score: 3, Funny

    With that said, I'm jealous. I'd love to have the opportunity to backpack around the world

    You do. Congratulations!

    JON