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CONNECTED TRAVELER TECH SHOWCASE
Russ Johnson and Pat Meier-Johnson present video highlights from our 2013 Connected Traveler Technology Showcases at the New York Times Travel Show and the Los Angeles Times Travel Show.
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What Travelers Saw at the Connected Traveler Technology Showcase: Video
What Travelers Saw at the Connected Traveler Technology Showcase: Video
Our Connected Traveler Technology Showcase lives on the web.This year, as last, we featured fresh, innovative and useful gadgets, photo gear, online sites and mobile technologies. Find out what travelers[…]
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SmugMug Gives Travelers Great Options for Storing and Sharing Their Photos
SmugMug Gives Travelers Great Options for Storing and Sharing Their Photos
{youtube}6_KTgMQX2cQ{/youtube}SmugMug demonstrated its online photo sharing site at the Connected Traveler Technology Showcase. It offers unlimited photo uploads and endless sharing options. Order prints of your favorite travel photos or[…]
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Olloclip Presents Pocket-Sized Quick-Connect Lenses for iPhone
Olloclip Presents Pocket-Sized Quick-Connect Lenses for iPhone
{youtube}6tUTM13zlAE{/youtube}Olloclip demonstrated their three-lens combo set for iPhone 4, 4S and 5 at the Connected Traveler Technology Showcase: fish-eye, wide angle and even a macro lens that lets you capture[…]
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Panoramic Videos on Your iPad: Condition One
Panoramic Videos on Your iPad: Condition One
{youtube}Elh0oGU7zDI{/youtube}What if travel videos acted like a virtual window, letting you look around and see things as if you were really there. The Condition One video player can convert and[…]
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Tourism 101 E-book for Those Wanting a Career in Travel
Tourism 101 E-book for Those Wanting a Career in Travel
{youtube}FlTJCQ3nYtE{/youtube}Travel fascinates you, so much, in fact, that you want to make a career of it. But where to start? For $8.95 you can download an e-book “Travel and Tourism:[…]
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Free and Discount Calls Worldwide and Customized Greetings: Libon
Free and Discount Calls Worldwide and Customized Greetings: Libon
{youtube}xpub5kCDhxQ{/youtube}Bosses, parents and spouses love to call you when you’re traveling abroad. But they might not always be able to catch you. A new app from Libon lets you record[…]
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Broadcast Video of Your Trip Live with Looxcie
Broadcast Video of Your Trip Live with Looxcie
{youtube}44EdVBnZdIM{/youtube}You’ve seen them…People who have a camera in front of their face all the time at events or when they travel. Looxcie makes the first handsfree mobile-connected video cameras that[…]
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Use Your Tablet With Your Smartphone Without Tethering: Spring Design
Use Your Tablet With Your Smartphone Without Tethering: Spring Design
{youtube}tq4no6ldq30{/youtube}Tired of trying to type emails or browse on your tiny mobile phone? Got a tablet but it doesn’t have a cellular account? ScreenShare, an app from Spring Design, uses[…]
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Cut Those Roaming Charges Overseas: Truphone
Cut Those Roaming Charges Overseas: Truphone
{youtube}k9N9dWxmpA4{/youtube}We’ve all heard the horror stories of people returning from their travels with astronomical mobile phone bills filled with roaming charges. One single Tru SIM card from Truphone gives you[…]
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Solar Power for the Traveler: Voltaic Systems
Solar Power for the Traveler: Voltaic Systems
{youtube}Dl4K4fcll4o|460|300{/youtube}Travelers love their cameras and digital devices, but there’s not always handy electricity to plug into. Voltaic Systems makes solar chargers that produce and store their own power so you[…]
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Connected Traveler Technology Showcase Panels at the New York Times Travel Show
Connected Traveler Technology Showcase Panels at the New York Times Travel Show
Digital cameras, mobile phones, tablets, apps and electronic gadgets were the subjects of the New York Times Travel Show's first-ever panels on technologies that make travel easier, more rewarding and[…]
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The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at the New York Times Travel Show
The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at the New York Times Travel Show
Join us in New York January 18-20 for the Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at the New York Times Travel Show. We will be presenting the tech gadgets and apps that[…]
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Aursama Demonstrates How It Brings the Virtual World to the Real World
Aursama Demonstrates How It Brings the Virtual World to the Real World
Imagine a travel billboard a work of art or even a business card coming to life as you point your smartphone at it. That's the idea behind Aurasma, the augmented[…]
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HP Shows its Sleek, Lightweight Laptops for Travelers
HP Shows its Sleek, Lightweight Laptops for Travelers
Travelers love beautiful mobile devices. At The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show HP showed its elegant ENVY thin and light laptops with surfaces made[…]
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learntravelandtourism.com Demonstrates New e-Book Version of itsIntroduction to Travel Careers
learntravelandtourism.com Demonstrates New e-Book Version of itsIntroduction to Travel Careers
LearntravelandTourism.com demonstrated the new $8.95 e-Book version of its introduction to a career in the travel industry, which contains much of the material taught in an introductory college course. Academic[…]
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Looxcie Shows its Hands-Free Cameras That Can Broadcast Your Travels Live
Looxcie Shows its Hands-Free Cameras That Can Broadcast Your Travels Live
Travelers love to share what they see with friends back home. At The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show, Looxcie showed their handsfree wear and[…]
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SugarSync Shows How Easy It Is To Sync Up Your Files From Anywhere
SugarSync Shows How Easy It Is To Sync Up Your Files From Anywhere
SugarSync showed visitors to The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show just how easy it is to keep their data and photos sync'd across all[…]
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TourWrist 's Free 360 Degree Panoramic App Wows iPhone and iPad Users
TourWrist 's Free 360 Degree Panoramic App Wows iPhone and iPad Users
If you saw people spinning around with an iPad at The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show, they were looking at dynamic 360 degree panoramic[…]
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ZAGG DemonstratesAccessories That Can Make Your Mobile or iPad Work Like a Laptop
ZAGG DemonstratesAccessories That Can Make Your Mobile or iPad Work Like a Laptop
ZAGG showed Bluetooth keyboards for mobile phones and tablets and protective covers for mobile devices at The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show 2012 attended[…]
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2ReturnMe Tag System Helps Reunite Lost Items with Their Owners
2ReturnMe Tag System Helps Reunite Lost Items with Their Owners
Travelers often lose things. At The Connected Traveler Technology Showcase at The New York Times Travel Show 2012, 2ReturnMe showed their system of tags and stickers with toll-free number and[…]
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Grand Central at 100: Its a Toyminal Not a Station (Audio)
Grand Central at 100: Its a Toyminal Not a Station (Audio)
from connectedtraveler.comPhoto Credit: Jason G. Lewis I didn’t make Grand Central Terminal’s grand birthday party Saturday, but I did pay homage last week, as one of the 750 thousand who[…]
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Top Places in the Mediterranean to Get Sick
Top Places in the Mediterranean to Get Sick
from connectedtraveler.comThere are some places I travel to with dread knowing that I will likely return with a cough. Beijing is one of them with its Gobi Desert dust, coal[…]
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Heavy Reading: Too Fat to Fly [Audio]
Heavy Reading: Too Fat to Fly [Audio]
from connectedtraveler.comBooks are too fat to fly. Why a smartphone may be your best option for inflight reading. An audio essay from Russ Johnson of The Connected Traveler
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Myanmar aka Burma: A Video Road Trip
Myanmar aka Burma: A Video Road Trip
from connectedtraveler.comI took a video road trip through Myanmar before last year’s march toward liberalization and the deluge of tourists that could change it forever. You may never see it[…]
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Infographic: How Mobile Technology is Changing Travel
Infographic: How Mobile Technology is Changing Travel
from connectedtraveler.comSource My Destination
YIMBY: Yes in My Backyard: Neighborhood Vacation Rentals
- Created by Russell Johnson
Photo: Russ Johnson
So you want to get off the tourist track, away from the diesel bus stink, the rehearsed hotel staff, the pickpockets and predators that are often drawn to tourists as bees would to a fat-bustled queen. Peer-to-peer vacation rentals can literally put you in a cheaper, better place, a real neighborhood, where you can discover a real sense of the destination you are visiting.
People We've Met: H. Stern
- Created by Russell Johnson
Hans Stern - Photo: Russell Johnson
I forgot how it came about, but I was in Rio de Janeiro on a project in 1983 and someone asked me if I would like to meet Hans Stern, the H. Stern whose name occupies the storefronts of designer jewelery stores from Paris, to Las Vegas, to the Middle East to New York's Fifth Avenue.
Lowell Thomas Exhibit Explores The World of Lawrence of Arabia and Beyond
- Created by Pat Meier-Johnson
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Palestine with Lowell Thomas - From "Journey to the Land of Our Past with the Lowell Thomas Travelogues"
As a war correspondent, Lowell Thomas and his cameraman Harry Chase met and traveled with archeologist, poet and British Army officer T.E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, in Palestine. Returning home in 1919, Thomas put together a legendary travelogue that he took around the world and captured the imaginations of millions. Imagine, if you were living then, flying over the Pyramids of Egypt. New York's Marist College has paired documents, film, photos and audio from its vast collection with the original script in its online exhibit "Journey to the Land of Our Past with the Lowell Thomas Travelogues."
Earth Day: Photos of Six Green Places We Like
- Created by Russell Johnson
Sri Lanka - Photo: Russ Johnson
What is green tourism?
It is not all about recycling and saving energy, it is about how tourism fits with a local community, its environment and its people. Green, or Good Tourism, as I like to call it, contributes. Bad tourism – tourism that overwhelms – destroys.
I have seen many travel destinations and experiences deteriorate over the years. I still enjoy small cruise ships and river boats. This new generation of floating cities, which carry four thousand or more passengers, have been likened to floating strip mines due to their effect on small ports they visit, changing once-pristine places to crowded, greedy carnivals. Places like Cambodia's Angkor which I, almost shamefully, helped introduce to the world of tourism, are jammed with hotels, tourists and the destructive culture that comes with them. But wait, there is hope. There are many places in the world where Good Tourism still has the upper hand. Here are six.
The Seductive Art of Drink at Silverado Vineyards
- Created by Pat Meier-Johnson
Eyes half-closed, her arm resting on the table, you could tell she is savoring the tiny goblet of Framboisette oblivious to the conductor frantically ringing a bell to warn her of the departing train. This poster by Francisco Tamagno is just one of several Belle Epoque posters depicting the art of promotion and the seductive qualities of drink at Silverado Vineyards in California's Napa Valley.
People We've Met: In Aussie Gold Country
- Created by Russell Johnson
Photo (c) Russell Johnson
Did you know that there was a Gold Rush in Australia at the same time there was one in California?
The New Exploratorium: Hands-On Science Makes Splash on San Francisco Waterfront
- Created by Russell Johnson
Trash Sweepers Clock - All Photos (c) Russell Johnson
San Francisco's Exploratorium, a reboot of the pioneering, hands-on science museum that had lived in a dark cavern at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts for 43 years is now open on the city's waterfront, “on the front porch of San Francisco,” says Executive Director Dennis Bartels. The Exploratorium has expanded to 330 thousand square feet of Pier 15 with 600 exhibits, some outside, some inside, all engineered to generate enough “ooh” to please adults and enough “ick” to please kids.
Seaglass Restaurant at the Exploratorium: A Sense for the Feasters
- Created by Pat Meier-Johnson
“Honey,” I say.
My husband turns around and smiles. “Yes,” I smile back, “HONEY” pointing to a large, fresh frame-mounted slab of honeycomb on display along the buffet line at the Seaglass Restaurant at the new San Francisco Exploratorium
Spelunking in Champagne
- Created by Russell Johnson
Photos: Russ Johnson
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 education and an attitude change. That happened when I paid a visit to the mother ship of bubbly, in the rolling hills near Reims, France,
Go Local: Four Tips to Explore a New Place When You Travel
- Created by Pat Meier-Johnson
Four tips for getting the most out of a new place you are visiting.
We really love to plunk ourselves down in the middle of town and wing it when we travel, not enslaving ourselves to guidebooks or hotel staff, but leaving ourselves open to whatever catches our fancy. Granted you might not see every landmark or frequent the restaurant that the concierge is promoting, but with a little advance preparation, real and digital, you can make your experience more real and rewarding:
Photos: Russ Johnson
MoMath in Manhattan: My Life With Pi and Other Math Mysteries
- Created by Russell Johnson
Be not afraid my children. Connected Traveler Russ Johnson leads you safely through a world of a Pi where there are no shipwrecks or tigers, the Museum of Mathematics in New York City.
