By Nimish Dubey As 2010 is confined to history, we decided to take a step back and look at our favourite travel gadgets of the year. Although we saw no significant move in the GPS gadget territory, apart from almost all smartphones coming with GPS, there were a number of gadgets that seemed tailormade for the traveller. Here are five [...]
By Nimish Dubey Travelling and videogames do not generally go together. The former is considered for those who love the great outdoors, the latter for couch potatoes. And yet there is a whole genre of gaming that is designed for those who like to roam around and see places – the adventure genre. And if there is one game that [...]
By Nimish Dubey Whatever you associate Sir Sean Connery with, it is certainly not writing about a country, even his own. The man, who many (us at Kunzum.com included) consider to have been not just the first but the best Bond of them all, however, does have a writing streak in him. And it has come to the fore in [...]
Nimish Dubey It has without doubt been THE tech product of 2010, reviving the tablet, posing a threat to the netbook market and giving a whole new dimension to portable computing. But just how useful is the Apple iPad to those of us who love to travel? Judging by the number of times people with a penchant for travel have [...]
By Nimish Dubey One of the biggest problems that computer users who love to travel face is lugging their notebook along. There is inevitably a lot of compromise involved – a good notebook will be on the heavier side and will suck in the battery department while a lighter one will be a bit short on power and of course [...]
By Nimish Dubey Of all of Google’s formidable array of software applications, few are as travel-friendly as Google Earth. This software literally lets you look at different cities and towns all over the world, some even from street level, from your computer. So if you feel like taking a stroll down a street in Paris, you can actually do so [...]
By Nimish Dubey How do you reach the center of the earth? And while on the subject, why on earth (pun intended) would you like to travel down the bowels of the planet? Well, both questions were answered in spectacular style by Jules Verne when he wrote A Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864. It revolves around [...]
By Nimish Dubey Few events have generated as much interest (albeit morbid) as the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest when several climbers perished in an attempt to make the summit. One of the main reasons for this interest is the fact that it inspired arguably the best mountaineering book in terms of narration, Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer. However, [...]
By Nimish Dubey Some of us might think that notebooks are better travelling companions than tablets but the fact cannot be denied that it is tablets that are the rage in the market these days. And well, tablets do have their benefits for the traveller – they are lighter than notebooks, often support SIM cards, and if one does not [...]
By Nimish Dubey They do not make too many travel authors like Mark Shand. The Englishman made headlines when he decided to buy an elephant and travel more than a thousand kilometres on it in India, inspiring two brilliant books, Travels on My Elephant and Queen of the Elephants in the nineties. In the new millennium, he decided to travel [...]
By Nimish Dubey One of the joys of travelling is going to new places and discovering new things. The problem, unfortunately, is that one often does not know what one is looking at unless one asks somebody or consults some kind of book or map. Or, these days, just has a decent cellphone. With most cellphones getting GPS and pretty [...]
By Nimish Dubey Jon Krakauer added a whole dimension to mountaineering and travel literature when he wrote Into Thin Air in 1996, describing the disaster that claimed the lives of eight climbers on Mount Everest earlier that year. A dozen years later, eleven climbers died on the second highest peak in the world, K2. As on Everest, nature played a [...]
By Nimish Dubey One of the questions that many tech-savvy travellers have had to tackle of late is whether it makes more sense to take a dedicated GPS device (such as those from Mapmyindia and Garmin) with them or to simply go with a GPS-enabled phone. As in most such arguments, there are plus and minus points to both sides. [...]
With GPS rapidly becoming a regular feature of mid-segment phones, an increasing number of travellers are taking GPS into consideration while purchasing handsets, as it would also help them find their way around town. But with so many phones offering the function, how does one decide which fits one’s needs the best? Well, we have come up with a six [...]
By Nimish Dubey There have been many books written on the Indian capital. Some have veered to the utterly academic, others to the spiritual, yet others to the role of a simple “see-this-do-that” travel guide and some (alas a very few) have just looked the city through the eyes of a resident. Sam Miller’s Delhi Adventures in a Megacity is [...]
By Nimish Dubey Most people become famous by being the first to do something. Or doing something a certain (record) number of times. And yet one of the most famous names in travel history is a man whose greatest achievement is surrounded in mystery. George Herbert Leigh Mallory was one of the best climbers of his period and had made [...]
By Nimish Dubey The world has been buzzing about the launch of the latest flagship phone from Nokia, the N8. We got a chance to play with a unit for some time and while we are not sure that it will beat the socks off the likes of the iPhone 4 and the high-end Android phones, we do feel that [...]
By Nimish Dubey There are travel books that tell you about how people went about a particular journey. There are those that tell you about places that people visited. Of the people they met. Of the food they ate. And so forth. And there are a few rare ones do all of this and leave you breathless with laughter while [...]
By Nimish Dubey Not too long ago, we talked about Glympse, a tool that let you share your location with certain select people. While that is a great tool if one wants to reach out to just a few people, those looking to advertise their presence to just about everyone they know (and some they do not know too well) [...]
By Nimish Dubey With the recently launched Nokia N8 claiming to be as good as a digital camera, yet another chapter has been added to the feud between camera phones and digital cameras. Speaking from purely a travelling perspective, we must confess that both sides have powerful arguments on their side. Here is our take on the entire camera vs [...]
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