Our Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at the New York Times Travel Show. Look for us in 2013 at both the NY Times and Los Angeles Times Travel Shows. Take a look at some of the fascinating demo videos we shot on the spot.
Maybe, in the future, you will visit a place and capture it in Hollywood-style 3D animation. Autodesk, which makes software used by Hollywood has come up with a free app for iPhones, iPads, PCs and Macs called 123D Catch that lets you make 3D animations from flat still photos. It works well with objects such as statues, but with complex subjects such as a building or a vineyard, it still is very much a work in progress. It makes for great Roger Corman-style SciFi trailers now, but you can see the future.
The US has just announced that its easing its ban on investments in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Will new tourism development be good for the country, or a can of worms? I took a video road trip through Myanmar before last year's march toward liberalization and the deluge of tourists that could change it forever.
Psst, I be your tourguide. Cheap. No, don't walk away. Free! Let me guide you through what is probably the world's most intriguing high tech bazaar. DEMO is a souk for startups, where new companies make their pitches to venture capitalists. Don't be afraid. Let me take you by the hand and show you a virtual food fight, a motorized skateboard, plus some exciting new travel apps, one of which took the big prize.
I have always enjoyed Champagne, or sparkling wine, but I never appreciated its subtleties. I had a binary rating system: zero to one...maybe a "meh" in between. I was long overdue for an attitude change.
"Get out of Dodge" is a line from the 50s TV Western Gunsmoke in which Marshal Dillon admonishes ne'er-do-wells to high-tail it out of Dodge City Kansas. The Valley of Fire State Park, in Nevada is hardly Kansas, although Dorothy would be quite pleased with its yellow rock roads. The Valley of Fire is the perfect place to go to get out that outlaw town Las Vegas, as we did during the chaos of Consumer Electronics Show.
