Flashpacker Guide to Packing a Laptop Backpack With Travel Gadgets

Students are notoriously sleep deprived -- student travelers, in particular, tend to run up a major sleep debt. Pay it later -- wake up and smell the espresso now with a vibrating travel alarm. Yep, you could use your phone's alarm -- but a clock is kinda nice and packing one of these in your laptop backpack means the whole pack vibrates when the alarm activates -- or tuck the alarm into your pillowcase and wake up without shrilling dormmates awake. Slip it in a cargo pocket on a train or plane ride and your wakeup call won't disturb seatmates, either.

Vibrating Pillow Travel Alarm

Dual alarm -- vibrates *and* rings, or choose one function only. Takes two AAA batteries and comes with a leather bag.

• Easy-to-hit snooze button
  
• Shows temperature F/C
  
• Calendar -- date, day of the week and day of the month
  
• Regular or military time (12 or 24 hour clock)
  
• Green LED backlight

  Buy the "Vibrating Pillow Travel Alarm"

• Check out the Shake Awake vibrating travel alarm, too

Let's move on to packing the exterior of your laptop backpack...