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- Brazilian inventor designs mask to charge iPhones via breathing
- World's most bizarre annual events
- Not so strange after all: Making sense of 'weird Japan'
- 5 awesome U.S. food trucks worth chasing
- Where are the world’s most expensive hotels?
| Brazilian inventor designs mask to charge iPhones via breathing Posted: 14 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT by CNNGo staff Here's a brilliant and hilariously geeky gadget for the travelers who won't have easy access to electrical outlets. The Aire, created by Brazilian inventor João Lammoglia, is a mask that converts the user's breathing into energy to recharge an iPhone or MP3 player. "Inside the unit there are small wind turbines that make the conversion, then the energy is transferred through a cable to the device," says the official website, which also introduces the MOOV, another alternative charger which harnesses energy from jogging and walking via a legband.
Technabob introduced it as "How Darth Vader charges his iPhone." Other blogs are happily punning away about how the mask "breathes new life" into your phone. read more     |
| World's most bizarre annual events Posted: 14 Mar 2012 11:00 AM PDT by Anthea Gerrie Mardi Gras. Thailand's Full Moon Parties. Rio's Carnival. It's all too easy for a traveler to have a stash of pictures, and memories, exactly the same as a million other travelers. So if you want an alternative story to tell, try these events for size. 1. International Ice Festival, Israel
The Day of the Dead Moon sees locals converge on villages accompanied by huge papier-mâché gargoyles known as the ogoh-ogoh. Music, firecrackers and partying continue throughout the night, ending just before sunrise with the symbolic torching of the ogoh-ogohs. On March 22, the Como Shambhala Estate near Ubud will stage is own noise parade, using Balinese cymbals and other instruments to scare out evil spirits -- but as their own ogoh-oghos are organic, they will be left to degrade in the ground instead of being torched. read more    |
| Not so strange after all: Making sense of 'weird Japan' Posted: 14 Mar 2012 10:55 AM PDT by Matt Alt You hear it all the time from tourists and journalists visiting for the first time: "Japan is so WEIRD! What's that all about?" Different it may be, but as a wise man once said, "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Sure, a lot of Japanese custom seems offbeat when viewed through the lens of a different culture. Taking potshots is easy. But when you approach things on their own terms, in their own contexts, most of Japan's supposed "strangeness" transforms into -- well, everything that's great about the country. And in that spirit, here's our list of supposedly "weird Japan" things that just might make your next trip even more fun. read more    |
| 5 awesome U.S. food trucks worth chasing Posted: 14 Mar 2012 09:00 AM PDT by Alex Jung A few years ago, spurred by an economic malaise, many professionally trained chefs began taking to the streets -- in trucks. Once known by the unsavory moniker "roach coaches," food trucks have since experienced a renaissance. Plugged into social media such as Twitter and Facebook, sourcing local ingredients and sporting graphic eye-catching designs, food trucks have transformed the American food scene in a few short years. Historically, food trucks provided meals to folk who didn't have ready access to food, whether as a canteen for soldiers or a lunch truck for construction workers. "Nobody wanted to eat off of them because they were not good food," says Tony Chen, the blogger of SinoSoul based in Los Angeles. read more    |
| Where are the world’s most expensive hotels? Posted: 14 Mar 2012 12:02 AM PDT by CNNGo staff If you're a Singaporean, Australian or Indian planning to travel on a budget this year, stay away from Switzerland. According to Hotels.com's annual Hotel Price Index (HPI), the nation of chocolate, watches and cantons has the most expensive room rates in the world if you're paying in Singaporean and Australian dollars or Indian rupees. New Zealanders, on the other hand, will find that when it comes to finding a place to sleep, their currency has the least clout in Italy. For Brits, the most expensive country is Oman. For South Koreans and Japanese, Singapore is the biggest cash sucker, while Mainland Chinese will spend the most yuan on a hotel room in the United Kingdom. The findings are all laid out in a series of HPI reports in multiple languages, compiled from all transactions on Hotels.com in 2011, in local currency, weighted to reflect the size of each market. "Each HPI country report version shows hotel prices across the world per room per night as paid by local travellers in local currency, when they made booking on Hotels.com website in their country," says Hotels.com. read more    |
May we suggest adding a snore muffler? Although the Aire has been around for awhile -- it was developed in July 2011 and won the "best of the best" red dot design award in 2011 -- it has been garnering attention only recently on various tech blogs and radio news. | You are subscribed to email updates from CNNGo.com To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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