ADAM HARVEYrounds up the latest travel gadgets
** The Spot satellite messenger is a hand-held GPS device that relays its location and a text message back to a base station, forwarded to emergency services if you press an SOS button, or on to the internet and the mobile phones of your friends and family to keep track of your progress via Google Maps. Hopefully, your message won’t be “Help, I’m lost on the M50.” (€195, basic monitoring €99 per year, internet tracking €39, Great Outdoors, Chatham Street, Dublin 2, www.great outdoors.ie, findmespot.eu.)
** Barbour jackets will stand up to the weather, and unlike a lot of raingear, this semi-fitted outerwear looks all right in the great indoors. The ladies’ quilted diamond-patterned jackets will be at home in the stands at the local rugby ground. (€249, Lisboa Boutique, Cork, lisboa.ie.)
** The Java Personal Press from GSI Outdoors slots right into Go Gadget’s relentless quest to keep you in touch with cafe-grade brews, no matter how remote your wanderings. This insulated mug and carafe nest together to take up less room in a pack. Just percolate, press and pour to banish those DTs for another 45 minutes or so. (About €35, see rosker.co.uk for stockists.)