Folding Bike
I have had a dahon boardwalk with fenders and rack purchased or me in the US. Also in the package will be a bag to carry the bike a pump, and tools as well as spare tubes and patches.
A folding bike allows me to get onto bot city and intercity busses without doubling the price or having no place to have a bike. Walking is just too slow as I have to run all over the city with short brakes between places.
Off Power Grid Mobile Phone
My wife and I may be taking an extended camping trip in the next few days. This will give me the cahnce to test the Baygen mobile phone charger. Inside is a rechargable battery which can be charged either by cranking the generator or plugging in the 100-230v charger for the phone, it is apparently good for 3-5 full charges without cranking the generator.
GSM Phones
I picked up a second SIM card for my wife to have a phone as she will be working soon. We plan to use SMS for most communications as if kept to one message is around 40 agarot or 10 cents.
She will be using my P280 motorola timeport phone. I really like this phone but use WAP internet and havent been able to config the WAP gateway for use with our GSM provider here, I have set up for GPRS with a cable to my laptop.  ¶ 1:10 AM