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Air Travel Gets More Complicated

Larry — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:39:00 GMT

Just in time for CES, the DOT is limiting the size of lithium batteries you can take with you on a flight starting January 1. Most important, all batteries that are not in a device have to be in your carry-on luggage. (groan, my back!) Next, you can only bring batteries with up to 8-grams of lithium or 100 watt-hours, and up to two batteries with over 8 but not over 25 grams or 300 watt-hours of lithium. As for lithium metal batteries you can bring up to 2 grams per battery either installed in a device or as spares, but no more.

Hopefully the TSA knows more about batteries than I do because my go bag could power a small village and the giant batteries for my video camera neither say what type of battery it is nor how many grams of anything are in it. This is going to be a mess. For now, if you have a lot of big (probably expensive) spares you might want to travel with a folded self-addressed Fed Ex box with you or save the trouble and ship them ahead of time. As for total grammage of lithium, it looks like you're only limited by what your LOLpaca can carry/pull/roll and/or fit in an overhead and underseat stow area. The good news is that soon we'll be able to buy lots of cheap Lion batteries at auction.

TripSync: Book all your travel from inside Outlook

Jesse — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:22:00 GMT

You almost certainly aren’t interested in Aaron Newman’s trip to Miami, but how he booked his travel should be of some interest to you. TripSync is an online travel tool that aside from having the standard web interface also features a very slick Outlook plugin. From within your calendar, TripSync will help you arrange and purchase all of your travel, and then create the appropriate entries for you. Not only that, but if you want to make a change to your reservations, simply drag and drop the Outlook calendar entry and TripSync will do as its name implies; synchronize your adjustments. The team has also issued something of a challenge to their competitors by dropping the online booking fees that most websites apply to the cost of travel.

Tribewanted: Social networks meet tropical islands. Lost...on purpose

Jesse — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:36:29 GMT

We've spent our share of time on social network sites over the years. Friendster, Orkut, Myspace, all of which essentially brought us the same level of entertainment; toying around with a gagel of geeks in a race to get every member of the Spice Girls on our friends list. Thankfully someone has taken the online social network and added back the important part--the real world.

Tribewanted has begun over this past weekend (even though the site has been brewing for almost six months now). Members of this online community are citizens of Vorovo, the name given to an island the founders have leased from the government of Fiji. From the comfort of our keyboards we can vote on who will be our tribal leaders and construction projects. Then once we've cashed out our Lindens, it's off to the serene tropical paradise where everyone has the same avatar; grass skirts and sunscreen.