Internet on the road, hotels

Travelling with tech can present challenges, sometimes simple, sometimes more difficult. We have two iPhones, one iPad, one notebook computer and they all want power and Internet.

Buying a 2 meter power cable with multiple sockets at the end from the supermarket. A lot of hotels provide a single cable for Internet. How do you split it? Go to a japanese phone shop and spend 3000 yen, $35 on a personal router/ wireless access point. This is the smallest, smartest and cheapest device I have ever seen or heard of. Menus in Japanese, but once you have seen a router, you get by. I had dreams about a device like this and now found one.