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Microsoft Bing Partners With Kayak For Improved Travel Search

Rue Liu, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft may be leading at this point in its battle with Google to see who has the better travel search. With Google's acquisition of ITA, a travel industry software company, still pending, Microsoft is moving full steam ahead announcing a partnership with the travel search engine company Kayak. Read The Full Story

Bing Launches Autosuggest Flight and Price Predictor Travel Search

Rue Liu, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's Bing already has an edge over Google when it comes to travel search, but now it really ups the game with new Price Predictor and Autosuggest Flight Prices features. This improvement makes it really easy to find the best priced flight just by typing in your destination into the search box. Read The Full Story

Room 77 Finds You The Best Hotel Room, Not Just Best Hotel

Rue Liu, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

Travel planning is being kicked up a notch. Instead of just searching for the best hotel, you can now search for the best hotel room. A startup by the name Room 77 is building a database of more than 425,000 hotel rooms at 2500 properties with information such as room category, square footage, bed type, and even proximity to an elevator. But most interestingly, is its tie in with Google Earth to bring you Room View, which simulates the actual view you would see from a particular hotel room. Read The Full Story

$100 Gets You a Mysterious Package Aboard Any Airplane (so Long as You’re a TSA Agent)

Chris Burns, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

So you're ready to get aboard a flight and you've decided you'd like to place your bag aboard a different flight. Why would you want to do that? You're a TSA agent and you'd like to test the system with $100 bill. You take your totally mysterious bag, you head over to a JetBlue flight, you hand that one hundred dollar bill to the doorman, and poof! You've got that bag aboard, unaccompanied by you. Read The Full Story

Lonely Planet Gives Several City Guide Apps Away Free During 2010 Holiday Season

Chris Burns, Dec 21st 2010 Discuss [2]

If you've ever traveled outside of your own country (or state or city for that matter), you know the importance of the most important tool you can have: the city guide. I personally have gone through a few cities overseas with nothing but a map, a backpack full of scraps of paper, and my wallet, but once I had the chance to grab a city guide booklet (this was back before smartphones), my whole experience changed. Flash forward to today when we've got these tiny screens we can keep in our pockets, and Lonely Planet has a collection of city guides you can grab and keep handy at the flick of the finger! And what's the big news today? Lonely Planet is giving away a batch of big cities away during this holiday season, totally freaking free of charge! Read The Full Story

Airless Metal Mesh Tires Awarded R&D 100 Award

Chris Burns, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [10]

These tires, constructed out of 800 interwoven load bearing springs, were awarded a 2010 R&D Award for their fabulous new airlessness. This award is also known as the Oscars of innovation, so it's big freaking honor to say the least. This tire was created by NASA and Goodyear, so you know it was going to be a big deal out the door, and was made for use on the moon. Moon tires of the past were still just rubber, rubber that didn't exactly hold up in heat, cold, and solar radiation. These new tires basically don't even care about any of that ol' crap. Read The Full Story

4th Amendment Wear for your TSA Protesting Family

Chris Burns, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [10]

So you plan on traveling for the holidays, yes? And you're feeling kind of political, and want to get a jab in at TSA and their new screening process, perhaps? Well then, designers Tim Geoghegan and Matthew Ryan have just the set of clothing your you! And not only you, your whole family, with t-shirts, underwear (men's and women's), and kids clothing. What does it consist of, you might ask? Why, the fourth amendment printed in metallic ink, of course! And you know what metallic ink does when you pass through a TSA scanner, right? Read The Full Story

Foursquare Mocks TSA Airport Screenings with “Baggage Handler” Badge

Chris Burns, Nov 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

Perhaps you've had your baggage handled lately? Lots of people who are planning on opting-out of the radiation-ridden x-ray machine TSA is having everyone walk through before and after getting on an airplane will be having their baggage handled, if you know what I mean, when patted down by TSA officials this holiday season. Therefor, in jest, Foursquare is now offering a badge in which you check in at your local airport and include "TSA," "Grope," or even "Don't touch my junk, bro!" in your shout and you'll unlock the a magical message and badge! Read The Full Story

Balanzza mini Luggage Scale will save your on airport overweight bag fees

Shane McGlaun, Oct 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

The last time I travelled, there was a couple standing at the check in desk arguing over what they were going to toss from their bag to avoid the extra fees for overweight luggage. They could have avoided all of that wasted time and embarrassment as people stood there watching them fight over trinkets picked up on tier trip by weighing their bag ahead of time. Read The Full Story

iCoffee concept takes Nespresso mobile

Chris Davies, Sep 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

Making coffee on the move generally means a thermos flask, an AeroPress, Handpresso or MyPressi Twist, but not if designer Gerda Hopfgartner has her way. We'll forgive her iCoffee concept for the tired Apple-knock-off name seeing as it's a way to make up to four cups of fresh coffee when you don't have access to a power socket, water or a stove. Read The Full Story

SCOTTEVEST unveils Carry-On Coat for the massively geeky

Shane McGlaun, Jul 5th 2010 Discuss [1]

Traveling for the connected geek is a hard thing to do. We tend to carry so many gadgets and electronics with us that it can get to be difficult to pack them all and worry about how safe the gear will be on the flight. I once went through security on the way to CES and the TSA worker operating the x-ray machine said, "Man that's a lot of electronics" and decided to wade through my bag by hand. Read The Full Story

Travel Vest is a geek’s best friend

Shane McGlaun, Apr 6th 2010 Discuss [4]

Technophiles tend to travel with lots of hardware and gadgets. Each of those gadgets often needs its own charger and we need cables to connect those gadgets to other device. In short, we need lots of space for our electronics when we travel. If you are trying to cram your clothes and your electronics into one carry-on, it can be difficult. Read The Full Story