An All Nippon Airways passenger plane carrying 117 passengers on board experienced a little bit of a scare earlier this month. Why? Because a numb-brained pilot accidentally almost made a Boeing 737-700 fly belly up, as in upside freaking down. A 737 is not a freaking stunt plane. It shouldn’t be barrel rolling, belly upping [...]
Finding your way around a new airport—at least major ones in the US—just got a little easier with the help of Bing search. The new airport maps show you the location of terminals, ticket counters, restrooms, eateries, ATMs, and more. To find a map of one of the 42 airports currently covered (Microsoft plans on [...]
Curious as to what’s happening at the top of Mount Everest? Tune in to the world’s highest webcam and you could find out for yourself, without having to strap on heavy-duty boots and goggles. The Mobotix M12 camera was installed by Italy’s Ev-K2-CNR scientific committee as part of a Nepalese government project, running on solar power at the [...]
Who needs a computerized fountain when you’ve got a dozen teenagers with Super Soakers? This ad for a pool chemical company is much more fun than their regular videos about how to take care of your pool. [Buzzfeed via Neatorama]
Flight Card wants to keep you, your family and your friends’ travel plans up to date on flight day. So you’re taking a flight from SFO to JFK, and it probably won’t be on time because of the fog. You fumble around for your flight number which looks something like this: XOWDJW. You can look it [...]
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YouTube user smithje77 travelled from Seattle to Maine in seven days. He thought it would be good to time-lapse the whole trip using his Droid X to take a picture every 90 seconds, which resulted in this 5-minute video. He drove through the “I-90, for almost the entire length of the highway, with only a few small [...]
Steve Kamb found out how to fly 35,000 miles and visit four continents for $418. He’s now going round the world in that trip and managed to score a weekend in Monte Carlo, Monaco, living like James Bond. Fantastic hotel room, Martinis, tuxedo and food for just $138. This is how he did it: When I [...]
Routine can be attractive and certainly has its uses, but life is no fun without a little spontaneity. If you’ve always wanted to visit a new place or just get the hell out of Dodge, make it happen. Here’s how to make great, spontaneous travel plans on a budget. Choosing Your Destination The important thing [...]
It’s probably happened to you at least once; you have made all the effort to get to the airport/train station early, only to find out that the next stage of your journey has been delayed. Instead of digging deep and paying for a well-known and expensive hotel or picking an uncomfortable airport or station seat, [...]
In 1969, astronaut Alan Bean went to the moon as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12. Although the trip going to the moon covered the same distance as the trip back, “returning from the moon seemed much shorter,” Bean says. People will often feel a return trip took less time than the same outbound [...]
This is a little disconcerting. Frequent traveler and caution-monger skyrangerpro discovered something bad about his hotel safe: it can be opened, overriding his own password, by entering all zeros. You might want to check your hotel safe today. We’re still trying to discern the make of the unit in question up there, but it looks pretty standard [...]
A physicist devised a much more efficient way to board a plane. The secret: boarding one side at a time, with as many people can unload luggage simultaneously without blocking the aisle, window seats first. Unfortunately, you’re probably not in charge of an airline and thus can’t do anything with this information, but you can [...]
Cramped seats, pricey fees, hours spent waiting on the tarmac — there’s plenty to gripe about air travel these days. But it could be that you’re just flying with the wrong carrier. Consumers’ ire for airlines has hit record highs in recent years. Airlines are tied with newspapers as the least-liked industry among the 47 [...]
