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The Best Travel Gadgets and Tech For Your Next Road Trip
The experts at Good Housekeeping have tested and reviewed some of the best travel electronics and tech gadgets on the market. Here are some of the picks that will make your next road trip more memorable.
Summer is prime road-trip season; time to pack up the car and the kids (or not!) and head out on the highway. With that in mind, we looked to our friends at Good Housekeeping for some expert insight into the best travel essentials to make your adventures a bit more comfortable. Whether you need to keep your little ones occupied with Wi-Fi connectivity or capture your special moments in a particular way, these products will surely elevate your road-trip experience.
Our Top Picks
We all have our own ideas about what tech we need and which gadgets and devices we enjoy, so the Gear Team could have simply thrown together a list of some of our favorites. But Good Housekeeping has been testing and evaluating products for parents and homes for over a century, and its testing processes have become an industry standard. So we hit up our colleagues over at the Good Housekeeping Institute for some tips, just to make sure we weren't missing anything.
Relying on the expertise of the Gear Team and the testing acumen of Good Housekeeping, here are some of the Best Travel Gadgets and Tech for your next road-trip adventure. Note: Autoweek has paraphrased Good Housekeeping's findings to reflect our purposes here; we have omitted some of the Institute's non-automotive selections and included other products more suited for our audience.
The Assistant Commerce Editor for Hearst Autos, Justin Helton is an enthusiast with a passion for heavily depreciated autos and a penchant for philosophical debate. As a lifelong Manhattanite, he has mastered the ins and outs of classic car ownership in one of the least car-friendly cities in the world.
Rachel Rothman (she/her) is the chief technologist and executive technical director at the Good Housekeeping Institute, where she oversees testing methodology, implementation and reporting for all GH Labs. She also manages GH’s growing research division and the analysis of applicants for the GH Seal and all other testing emblems. During her 15 years at Good Housekeeping, Rachel has had the opportunity to evaluate thousands of products, including toys and cars for GH’s annual awards programs and countless innovative breakthroughs in consumer tech and home improvement.
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