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What's New, What's Hot is Travel Weekly's look at useful and fun travel gadgets, edited by Joe Rosen. First up, the WaveCast Portable Bluetooth Transmitter. This innovative and practical travel accessory enables you to connect wireless headphones, AirPods and the like to an inflight entertainment system that typically does not have Bluetooth connectivity, thus eliminating the cable that otherwise tethers you to a plane's AV output.

The Casery Crossbody Phone Pocket is designed to accommodate most smartphones. The phone pocket comes with a clip-on rose gold chain that turns it into a small crossbody purse. The product has room for four credit cards and has a snap closure for security.

Even if you don't know how to play the game or recognize its nomenclature, what better time to learn the basics than now when even the most peripatetic of travelers are becoming temporary homebodies. Backgammon Baby Travel Backgammon Sets are colorful and easily portable sets -- when closed they resemble attractive attache cases -- are just the vehicle for would-be or experienced players in that they boast designer fabrics and upscale game pieces.

Proven says that its DEET-free, 12-hour spray and 14-hour lotion offer long-lasting protection from biting insects. Both the spray and the lotion are odorless or scented as desired, non-greasy, non-toxic to wildlife and fish and, according to the CDC, safe for women who are pregnant and breast feeding.

While you might not ordinarily consider a vacuum a travel product, the Omni Power UV + Cordless Vacuum qualifies as such for use in vacation homes and RVs, both of which might prove to be popular alternatives to traditional travel for flight-averse persons in the months to come.