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Inflight entertainment may soon watch you!

  Thales’ mock-up of what the system might look like.   Just like Santa Claus, your seatback screen may soon “know when you are sleeping, and know when you’re awake,” according to Japanese inflight entertainment maker Thales.   At the…

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Why the trip home always seems shorter. Maybe.

If you’re like most people, at one time or another you’ve turned to a traveling companion and said “It always seems like a shorter trip home than going, doesn’t it?”    And it certainly does. Even from space, where Alan Bean, pilot of the…

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Instant climate change available at airport!

Step into a booth—The Climate Portal—at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, and step into the climate of an entirely different place, say the city you’re traveling to.   Chilly? Too hot? step out and down to the shopping area for an extra…

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Apple Maps still trying to find its way

A fleet of Google’s mapping cars…now Apple is doing the same                 Photo: westbayhomes.org   Apple, whose 2012 Maps application got no love as a replacement for Google Maps on Apple devices, is…

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Air pollution: In the air, and inside planes

How much do these engines affect the air inside and outside the plane?        Photo: Julian Herzog / Wikimedia   Air pollution issues are in the news for air travel lately. A British union of airline workers is preparing a…

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Inflight entertainment may soon watch you!

  Thales’ mock-up of what the system might look like.   Just like Santa Claus, your seatback screen may soon “know when you are sleeping, and know when you’re awake,” according to Japanese inflight entertainment maker Thales.   At the…

Read More

Why the trip home always seems shorter. Maybe.

If you’re like most people, at one time or another you’ve turned to a traveling companion and said “It always seems like a shorter trip home than going, doesn’t it?”    And it certainly does. Even from space, where Alan Bean, pilot of the…

Read More

Instant climate change available at airport!

Step into a booth—The Climate Portal—at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport, and step into the climate of an entirely different place, say the city you’re traveling to.   Chilly? Too hot? step out and down to the shopping area for an extra…

Read More

Apple Maps still trying to find its way

A fleet of Google’s mapping cars…now Apple is doing the same                 Photo: westbayhomes.org   Apple, whose 2012 Maps application got no love as a replacement for Google Maps on Apple devices, is…

Read More

Air pollution: In the air, and inside planes

How much do these engines affect the air inside and outside the plane?        Photo: Julian Herzog / Wikimedia   Air pollution issues are in the news for air travel lately. A British union of airline workers is preparing a…

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