Van Gogh | Berlin | London | Madrid | New York

You, the Guidebook
Long before PDAs and laptops, creative types like Van Gogh, Hemingway, and Picasso mused and sketched in notebooks made by Moleskine (say mole-a-skeen-a), a family-owned company that closed in the 1980s but was revived in 1998.

The latest too-cool Moleskine product is the City Notebook. Billed as “the first guidebook you write yourself,” each notebook contains city layout and subway maps, a street index, a tabbed organizer, and, of course, plenty of blank pages for capturing those moments of inspiration great cities bring. Books for Berlin, London, Madrid, New York, and others are available, with more on the way. www.moleskineus.com


Project Wireless
There are gadgets, and then there are useful gadgets — like NewSoft’s WMS 100 Image, a wireless adapter that easily links a Wi-Fi–enabled laptop to a projector, thus ridding you of that unsightly rat’s nest of wires. Its zippy frame-transfer rate and one-to-many capability allow for easy sharing and transmission of content from laptops anywhere in the conference area. $280, www.newsoftinc.com