What's New, What's Hot is Travel Weekly's look at useful and fun travel gadgets, edited by Joe Rosen. First up, Dock and Bay Beach Towels, with its unique microfiber blend that makes these towels soft to the touch, extremely absorbent, sand-resistant and three times quicker to dry than an equivalent cotton towel. Compact and light weight, the towels are travel ready: fold it up and it is no bigger than a hard-cover novel. They also come with an elastic hook to hang it out to dry to its own carry pouch.