Design-minded plastic-lined dopp kit with a smart separate plastic slot for your toothbrush and a removable zippered pocket to toss into your day pack. Bonus: Get a free mojito travel wallet with any MF purchase on their website. (While supplies last.)

It looks like your basic hoodie, yet, it’s built specifically for travel comfort with features including a removable inflatable neck pillow, stash pocket with ear plugs, zippered internal passport/ticket pocket and a light shield built into the hood. Genius.

Why oh why must laptop bags be black and businessey? This is one welcome exception, coming in four different color-design combos, none of them black. It also happens to be machine washable, reasonably priced and outfitted with a waterproof nylon interior with smart zippers and slots. You’re welcome.

Every traveling girl needs a figure-flattering day-to-evening dress that can emerge from the depths of your suitcase looking fresh and ready to go. Accessorize to make it just your style.

The only way to charge this soda can-sized lantern/flashlight/spotlight is with the solar panel. One hour’s worth of direct sunlight means two hours of operation on low, or one hour on high, and the lantern can reportedly hold a charge for eight months. The LED lights and internal rechargeable NiMH battery mean no bulb- or battery-buying, ever, making this ostensibly a lifetime lantern for fifty bucks. Developed by doctors after mission trips to Africa, where they saw first-hand how about three-quarters of folks live without electricity. Portions of each sale go toward replacing the standard in African villages—expensive, unhealthy and greenhouse gas-emitting kerosene lanterns—with K-Lights.

So many situations the world over you can navigate smoothly with the double whammy of cash and compass.

(via The Awesomer)

A working video camera, with built-in microphone, disguised as a working ballpoint pen. Fulfill the International Spy Fantasy: Just add trenchcoat.

Also: Congrats to the lucky Laurel, winner of the Point It. More giveaways coming your way soon!

The new pima cotton (and therefore more affordable) version of White+Warren’s cashmere travel wrap. A nice, big all-weather scarf, blanket and wrap in one, it comes in a rainbow of colors.

So check this out: Crazy-light luggage—as in 5 pounds for this carry-on size—just now hitting the market. At the Travel Goods Show, I picked it up with just my one pointer finger, no problem. It’s made of mountain-tenting fabric covering a fishing-rod-style fiberglass frame. As is the necessary deal with ultra-lightweight (and therefore stripped-down) luggage, the interior’s very basic, though there are built-in shoe pockets. Pretty inexpensive, too.

Apologies for my extended absence, folks. I’m back! And I give you, direct from the 2009 Travel Goods Show, my new crush, this lovely white-leather laptop sleeve—sleek, but with a sense of humor. Fun to schlep around; fun to close. I heart it so much that I’ve developed a use for it beyond travel, one that plays into my ongoing quest to integrate both more organization and more relaxation into my daily life. My new goal: End the day by turning the laptop off and placing it, on my empty desktop, in this beauty. A laptop sleeve that inspires me to be a better person? Now that’s true love.

I’ll be back with more on Monday. Promise.