About

Too Many Adapters is a leading source of technology news, information and resources for travellers. Our writers traverse the globe, smartphones in hand and luggage in tow, providing real-world accounts of the gear they use and the challenges they face.

Our readers look to us for unbiased reviews and strong opinions, finding the best (and the worst) among thousands of travel apps, gadgets and websites clamoring for attention. We know the issues that travellers face – we deal with them ourselves every day – and how technology can help resolve them.

Founded in 2011 by a pair of travelling geeks, Too Many Adapters has since grown rapidly. Featured in print and online magazines, podcasts and dozens of tech and travel websites, we now have many thousands of readers every month and a team of contributors who cover every aspect of travel technology.

Too Many Adapters. We are technology for travellers.

Founders

Dave Dean has been a geek as long as he can remember. His first computer was a ZX Spectrum, complete with rubber keys and a tape drive that rarely worked. That thing was a work of art.

He worked in the technology field for fifteen years around the world, combining his love of all things nerdy with an overwhelming travel addiction.

Originally from New Zealand but now based out of a backpack long term, Dave writes about technology and travel from anywhere with half decent internet and a great view.

Dustin Main first rocked a computer while owning a Lemonade Stand on a friend’s old monochrome Apple II. As it turns out, those entrepreneurial skills would come in good use when he started his first tech company a couple of decades later.

Hiking around North America since age 5, he had his first taste of another continent while texting blog updates back to Canada from the top of Kilimanjaro.

Traveling full time and photographing the 7 continents since 2009, Dustin takes pretty pictures when he’s not talking (or writing) tech to anyone that will listen.

Senior writers

Simon Fairburn is one half of Never Ending Voyage, a digital nomad couple who travel the world indefinitely.

He cut his geek teeth on an Amiga 500 and learned computing the hard way—by breaking his dad’s desktops and desperately trying to fix them before the old man got home.

A recovering PHP developer and web designer, he has since learned Objective-C and now develops iOS apps.

Lauren Juliff is a twenty-something physicist who is travelling around the world forever while writing about it at Never Ending Footsteps.

From punching a scammer in Shanghai to being violated during a massage in Bangkok; from having to sit next to a corpse in Laos to getting attacked by monkeys in Bali, she always finds herself in the most ridiculous of situations.