Jim's Travel Log

Cool Hot Spot I love to snorkel. And I'm hooked on Google. So Rosewood's Little Dix Bay sounds like paradise to me. At this Virgin Islands resort, guests can Google and snorkel (not at the same time), because it's the first Caribbean property to offer wireless Internet access on its beach, according to a resort spokesperson. Access is $20 a day, on top of high-season daily rates from $450--and even more damage if you spill a piña colada on your laptop, so be careful. Check it out at www.littledixbay.com.

Lost in Translation? Ja, nein, and Marlene Dietrich are the only German words I know. So on a trip to Berlin this fall, I'm hoping for help from Aim High's Talking TR-2203 ($199), a handheld audible language translator. Presumably, I should be able to type in a phrase like "That's disgusting!" and out of the device's speaker will come a voice saying "Das ist ja ekelhaft!" (The TR-2203 also speaks nine other languages.) I'll let you know how it goes in the next issue of Digital World.