I'm what they call a road warrior, I guess. I'm a writer and photographer and my laptop and digital camera and mobile phone go everywhere I do. Along with the dongles and rechargers.
A good portion of my time on the road is making sure that I've got everything charged up, with spare batteries. My recent RTW trip had me packing power adaptors for US, UK and European sockets, and when I was browsing through an electronics shop in Hong Kong airport, I found a clever little device that will let me toss them all away.
It's the Swiss Travel Products World Adaptor
http://www.mobileplanet.com/product.asp?code=117161 and it has one end fitted with sockets for US, UK, European and Australian plugs, and the other end has push out prongs for the same four. There's a safety button so you can only push out one set of prongs at a time, eliminating short circuits.
It's a bit heavier and bulkier than any one adaptor, but not as much as all three together, and I found it supremely useful.
I also take along an Australian double adaptor, so I can plug the universal adaptor into the foreign socket, stick in the double adaptor and then stick two Aussie plugs at once into it.
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