{"id":80602,"date":"2025-10-14T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:07:08","slug":"the-10-best-travel-gadgets-that-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80602\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Travel Gadgets (That Actually Work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best for…\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of the smallest and lightest power banks we tested. It has a powerful USB-C PD port and built-in USB-C and Lightning cables. But it charges slower than our other picks.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m directionally challenged. With a dead phone battery, I\u2019m unlikely to find the landmark right in front of my face, never mind the way back to my lodging.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I always travel with a portable charger. And while I love the top picks from our guide<\/a> \u2014 they\u2019re easy to slip in a backpack \u2014 they can feel bulky on occasions when I\u2019m determined to sightsee light, with just my tiny purse containing my wallet, keys, and phone.<\/p>\n

In this instance, a nearly credit-card-size portable power bank is just what the doctor ordered \u2014 if the doctor is charging expert Sarah Witman, our intrepid guide writer to the best portable chargers<\/a>. She found the TravelCard Plus<\/a> stood out thanks to its impressively small and lightweight design. (It\u2019s slightly larger and about four times thicker than a credit card and weighs about as much as five sheets of notebook paper.) Plus, it\u2019s easy to use and has sturdy built-in cables.<\/p>\n

However, what you gain in portability, you lose in power. It\u2019s slow, and it\u2019s unlikely to fully recharge your phone (our larger top picks can fully recharge a phone up to three times). Still, in a dead-phone emergency, all you need is a little juice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best for… This is one of the smallest and lightest power banks we tested. It has a powerful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[203,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-80602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}