Travel Gear: Tech that makes being on the move easier

Keysmart

Keysmart is pocket and handbag-friendly organiser for your keys, with the option to add in a tool or two. There’s a range of versions, with a chassis you screw apart, add keys and reassemble easily. Keysmart claim it can take up to a 100 keys (slightly undoing the convenience factor perhaps) but it’s neat with five or six. And to reveal your inner Mac Gyver, there are add-on tools including a USB stick, golf divot fork or a bottle opener. So you can tool up your own multitool.

From about $17 upwards, see getkeysmart.com

Hideaway Windbreaker

The Hideaway Windbreaker packs down to pocket-sized pouch like many stowaway jackets. Made from ripstop nylon, it’s quite water-resistant too. But its unexpected turn is a series of panels all around which can be packed with any improvised insulating material if you feel an impromptu need to bulk up against the chill. Its makers suggest anything from balled-up newspaper to handfuls of shrubbery. And with some well-art directed packing, it can look puffa-like.

$55 from unchartedsupplyco.com

Mifold Booster Seat

Described by its inventor as the most compact, portable booster seat ever, it’s probably hard to quibble given it folds down about the size of a clutch (the bag, not the car part). His imaginative leap was that other boosters lift up a child to fit adult seat belt settings. Mifold makes the seat belt suit the child. The panels open for the seat and guides on either side and to the back route the straps to fit ages four to 12. Meanwhile it’s so compact you can keep one in the glove compartment, in the school bag for shared runs or bring it in hand luggage for hired cars. And it meets all the requisite safety standards in Europe and the US. $50 from mifold.com