Category Archives: Tech

No More Lost Luggage

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Brian D. Butler

Last year airlines lost more than twenty-six million pieces of luggage in North America alone. Now there’s a new gadget that will provide flyers with a better chance at being reunited with missing baggage. The Trakdot Luggage Tracker, which will … Continue reading →

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Fables for Living

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Readers with a proclivity for short-form fiction will relish Electric Literature. This uber-cool multimedia literary magazine can be read on mobile devices, e-readers or even in traditional, old-fashioned paper format. Publishing for three years, Electric Literature commissions work from contemporary … Continue reading →

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Empire State of Mind

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

This week, New Yorkers were treated to a brand new LED lightshow on the fabled Empire State Building. The remarkable show, synched to music from Alicia Keys and Jay-Z, was made possible by Philips Color Kinetics. The company replaced an … Continue reading →

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Every Book Is A Surprise

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

The Monkey’s Paw is Toronto’s self-described “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”. So it’s not surprising that owner Stephen Fowler commissioned the creation of the Biblio-mat random book dispenser. The automat for books arbitrarily metes out improbably diverse titles that would normally … Continue reading →

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Serendipity Now

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Launched last month, Wanderous is a diverting free travel navigation app that creates serendipitous urban routes that are optimized for adventurous journeys. Users just enter a destination into Wanderous and it will offer a convoluted route suggesting local sites, landmarks, … Continue reading →

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Hey Taxi

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

While traveling in Europe I try to use public transportation whenever possible, however sometimes a taxi is the best option for a time-sensitive trip. A new Finnish start-up booking service called Cabforce offers taxi services in 25 European cities. Users … Continue reading →

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Be Prepared

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Many of us who live on the East Coast of the United States have been rudely schooled on the importance of being prepared for natural disasters and emergencies. Lots of folks that I know will wish that they had heard of the … Continue reading →

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Travel Randomly

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Are you a spontaneous traveler? Would you trust a website to randomly plan your travel? If the answer is yes, you might want to give the oddly named “adventure generator” Drungli a try. Pick your departure city and dates that … Continue reading →

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Travel Trends 2012

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

I was intrigued by this very informative infographic on travel industry trends for 2012. One billion international traveler arrivals—wow that’s amazing ! And why doesn’t anyone want to vacation in Moldova or Tuvalu ? Take a look:

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Lotus Dome or Soft Machine

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Inside Lille, France‘s beautiful Église Sainte Marie Madeleine, the Dutch design team Studio Roosegaarde has installed an intrguing dome-like structure composed of metalic petals that responds to the physical presence of visitors. The Lotus Dome is constructed of hundreds of light-sensitive flowers … Continue reading →

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