Top 8 Travel Accessories for Business Travel

I've chosen this Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 Notebook as one of my top travel accessories for business travel because it's a good work machine at a good price. My choice has Windows 7 Professional pre-installed with a 2.10 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB installed memory, a 320 GB hard drive, and wireless connectivity. One thing I really like about this notebook is the 15.6" LCD screen – bigger than a lot of laptops. Choose another laptop if you want to play games, but as a business machine, this one is hard to beat.

Rolling laptop cases are great business travel accessories because they prevent stress on the neck and shoulders. This Kensington Contour Roller Laptop Case is packed with features to keep you organized, with top-loading compartments and expandable utility pockets, and if you do decide to carry it over your shoulder, the handle telescopes.

Apple’s iPhone is an impressive multifunction work and entertainment centre, so why would you want to be separated from it when you're on the road? Mail, phone calls, web surfing, taking pictures, playing music are all at your fingertips – and then there are all those apps, some of which are great travel accessories in themselves. The iPhone 4 boasts the highest-resolution phone screen ever, making images super-crisp, a 5-megapixel camera with built-in LED flash, FaceTime, so you can see people while you talk to them, and HD video recording and editing.

This is one of those travel accessories I never go anywhere without because you never know when you're going to want to upload and transfer files or access the ones you already have. A  USB flash drive makes it easy; you can download files from one computer and upload them to another just by sticking the storage device into a computer's USB port. The one I've chosen, the SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB Flash Drive provides 16 GB of memory.

Why leave home without it? When it comes to doing business, briefcases aren't just travel accessories; they're life accessories. You'll want one that's an organizational star, big enough to carry everything you need it to carry, and stylish enough to shout "successful". This one from Siamod San Francesco would be a great choice. Made of sleek Napa Cashmere Leather, it also offers a lot of organizational oomph with large outside pockets front and back and two roomy interior compartments, one a padded laptop compartment (for laptops up to 15.4" in size). Two front organizer pockets and an interior organizer give you a place for everything. Available in Cherry Red, Black, Chocolate and Cognac. More Briefcase Choices

When I'm looking for travel accessories to carry my gear, expandability and durability are two of the main features I look for. This Samsonite Signature Bag has both. On the outside, it's a good-looking, sturdy wheeled travel bag. On the inside, the front compartment is expandable, and there's a tri-fold removable suiter with hangers to help reduce wrinkling, and a removable toiletry kit. And it's treated with DuPont Teflon to make it especially stain and abrasion-resistant. This is an especially great travel bag for the frequent traveler.

Being organized always makes for a better trip, so I'm always on the lookout for travel accessories that make it easier to find my toothbrush and other personal items. The Household Essentials Grooming Bag has ten see-through compartments so you can organize all the personal items you're taking with you. It folds flat to fit in a suitcase or can be hung in a garment bag and has an easy-to-clean waterproof vinyl lining and pockets. Best of all, it opens wide and hangs, so you don't have to rummage through it to find what you're looking for.

A travel alarm clock is one of those must-have business travel accessories when you’re on the road; a travel alarm clock takes the worry out of wake-up and the best will fit neatly into one of your luggage pockets without adding any weight. My advice is to look for one that you’re going to be able to see under almost any light circumstances – such as this L.L.Bean Night Finder III Travel Alarm Clock that has both a large LCD display and a “light-up” feature where  you can just tap on the wide-screen display to illuminate the screen so you can see it at night. It also has a snooze feature and a temperature indicator in Celsius, which may also come in handy.