luggage
Design
When Cyclists Are Forced To Fly, There’s This Bicycle Luggage
5:30AM Jack Loftus | Personally, I’m the calibre of cyclist that’s able to ride to wherever it is I happen to travel, including to Europe, but for those of you cut from lesser cloth there’s this bit of cleverly shaped luggage called AeroTech Evolution. More »
Design
Mayfair’s Office Trunk: For Geeks Who Telecommute On Steamships
8:00AM Jack Loftus | If Tom Hanks’ character had had this steamer trunk in Joe Versus the Volcano, he could have probably Googled “brain cloud”, discovered it was bullshit, and saved himself—and us—from having to sit through that movie. More »
Peripherals
Timbuk2 HAL Backpack Review: Pockets For Laptops, Contraband
4:30AM Wilson Rothman | I’m pretty square, fashion-wise. I own few intentionally ironic t-shirts, and fewer skinny jeans. Buchanan bags on my style choices regularly. That’s why, when he ordered me to ditch my old backpack, I picked Timbuk2’s new HAL. More »
Gadgets
Pluggage Luggage Charges Your Gadgets As It Rolls
12:30PM Don Nguyen | Pluggage, the brainchild of ITP student Ohad Folman, is a piece of carry-on luggage with a built-in battery/inverter and a solar panel that’s capable of charging mobile devices as the bag is rolled or exposed to direct sunlight. More »
Regulars
What Is This?
6:40AM Jesus Diaz | Yes, it’s a Boeing 747. But what the hell is that thing inside the engine? More »
Gadgets
Louis Vuitton Trunk Is a Vacation In Itself
9:00AM Jason Chen | Who needs clothes on vacation when you can carry two solar panels, a flatscreen TV, DVD player, two-way radio and coffee maker with you wherever you go? More »
Games
Yale Student Sues US Airways For $1 Million Over Lost Xbox 360
10:20AM Sean Fallon | Boo hoo…a Yale student had his Xbox 360 pilfered out of his luggage during a US Airways flight. That, combined with the emotional toll involved in the recovery effort should be worth $US1 million right? More »
Random Stuff
Bacon Sets Off Airport Bomb Detector
4:13AM Gizmodo US Edition | According to German news site Nachrichten, a passenger at the Linz airport set off alarms when his suitcase full of bacon was mistaken for a bomb. The story was translated with Google, so it’s high on hilarity and low on verifiable detail. More »
Gadgets
LiveLuggage Power-Assisted Suitcase Lightens the Load for Travellers
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | The motors inside LiveLuggage’s ingenious power-assisted suitcase can turn a 30kg load into something one-tenth of the size. With an anti-gravity handle and force sensors in the wheels, LiveLuggage is hack- and thief-proof and, once charged, the battery will run for a couple of hours. Costing US$1,300, I’m tempted to try one of these just to see what the Homeland Security bods might do when faced with a plastic suitcase boasting built-in electronics. [LiveLuggage via Born Rich] More »
Peripherals
