Luggage
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You can get a lot of work done, stuck in an airport between flights. Doing so can be awkward, however, if your laptop is sitting on your knees. That's why the Smartoo was created. It attaches to your suitcase's telescoping handle, turning it into a computer stand.
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Shopping for frequent flyers can be difficult: Due to sheer necessity, they likely already have everything they need to navigate the inherent challenges of air travel. Here’s a selection of innovative gifts and gadgets that should surprise and please even the most well-equipped of travelers.
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Permanent bag tags could soon reduce airport check-in times to nil and one company is hoping its permanent luggage tag will be the only one that travelers will ever need.
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Traveling alone can be very stressful. But adding children and all the luggage they need to that mix can be enough to send parents insane. The team at Born to Fly Baby is trying to make it a bit easier to travel with young kids by bundling a stowable stroller into a piece of carry-on luggage.
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Though some luggage now has integrated location tracking, the vast majority, of course, do not. US airline Delta, however, is making it possible for anyone to track their luggage, no matter how low-tech it may be, using its Fly Delta app.
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We've seen lots of innovative takes on luggage of late, but Bugaboo has been able to to approach it from a different angle to anyone else. The firm has drawn on its experience designing pushchairs with the aim of making an easy-rolling and convenient case called the Boxer.
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Ikap Robotics' Olive may look like an ordinary piece of airline luggage, but it's actually a robot that can remind you to catch your flight, follow you along the concourse, charge your phone, and even carry you like a stand-up electric scooter.
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The Bluesmart One smart carry-on luggage raised over US$2.2 million at the end of 2014 and has gotten some pretty high praise in the press since its release at the end of last year. But is the hype – and the hefty price tag – really smart for you? Gizmag got its hands on one to see.
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There's a certain satisfaction in gliding a wheeled suitcase over a smooth airport floor, but, faced with a flight of stairs, a heavily-packed case become an encumbrance. Not so the new TraxPack, which drops onto its side to slide up staircases with relative ease.
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Shape-shifting electric scooters are nothing new, but the eFoldi covers some unexpected bases. The brainchild of father-daughter team Jianmin and SumiWang, the eFoldi electric scooter transforms into a practical chair or a suitcase-sized unit for transport.
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A Californian team thinks it has the solution to suitcases being bounced around as you wheel through the airport with Floatti, a smart suitcase with suspension, smartphone integration and an inbuilt scale.
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The Jurni is aimed at making travel more bearable by allowing users to sit on it to rest, ride on it when queueing, and pull it along like a conventional wheeled case. Intrigued by the concept, we put one through its paces.
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