Fancy spending a night behind bars (not the type where aspiring songwriters hang out)? A former prison in the western city of Kaiserslautern, Germany has turned itself into “Alcatraz Hotel”, offering guests a jailhouse feeling, complete with barbed wire along the walls and barred windows that make it look impossible to either enter or leave… Read More »
Like a story right out of science fiction, the Japanese – known for their pursuit of all things eccentric (think pocket pets, robot dogs and an assortment of other crazy inventions) – are reportedly planning to spend one trillion yen (just shy of US$10 billion) on a 36,000 km space elevator to lift people and… Read More »
If you’re a regular traveller who lugs around a generic-looking Samsonite luggage on the road, you might bemoan the fact that it can be difficult to identify your own bag, especially at crowded airports where several airlines share the same luggage carousel, sometimes almost simultaneously. To deal with this “problem”, an American company has come… Read More »
You know times are hard when you hear this announcement on board a flight: “Ladies and Gentlemen, in the event of a water landing, your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device. Simply reach below your seat and slide your credit card through the card reader to release the cushion.” Related posts:Nothing on… Read More »
A New York woman was at her hairdresser’s on Park Avenue getting her hair styled prior to a trip to Rome with her boyfriend. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded, “Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty and full of Italians. You’re crazy to go to Rome.… Read More »
Apparently, 12,000 laptops are lost each week in major airports in the US, more than 65% of which are never reclaimed, according to a study sponsored by Dell and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. (You can download the PDF here.) The problem is not just a matter of hardware loss, but “53% of people admit… Read More »