21st century backpacking, no matter how light you profess to pack, usually entails bringing along a few gadgets, if only your digital camera. Add to that a laptop computer, MP3 player, mobile phone and all their related cables, chargers, adapters, batteries and you can easily end up with several kilos of expensive gear.

Following up on our story about VoIP on the iPod Touch, it seems that we now have the missing link software which will turn your iPod Touch or iPhone into a lean, mean VoIP calling machine…

The iPod Touch the new best travel gadget ever? Apple announces new features that will turn the iPod Touch into a powerful VoIP device. The iPod has become ubiquitous on the backpackers’ circuit these past few years and none other than yours truly kept waiting for the day that Apple would truly put the internet in my backpack…