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By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel What a riot! The same U.K. adventure company behind the thrilling, shoot-’em-up Zombie Shopping Mall adventure is now offering Riot Training Experience. Wish.co.uk will teach you and your mates how to beat on scofflaws like you’re a Vancouver cop in ’11. For a mere £79 ($125 CDN), you can…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Remember in 2009 when a U.S. Airways passenger jet crash-landed into the Hudson River off of midtown Manhattan? You’d definitely remember if you were on that flight. The captain, Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger, had to down the jet soon after it slammed into a flock of Canadian geese. Both of…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel You can always count on Ryanair for controversy. Ryanair’s outspoken cost-cutting CEO, Michael O’Leary, once vowed that his airline would charge for toilets. Ten years ago, the airline famously refused to offer wheelchairs to disabled passengers. This year they introduced seats that don’t recline. Plus the airline now charges…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel True story: A publicist loaned me a new Jaguar XJ-L for the week. Have you seen this beast? Picture a luxury sedan that’s as rich and white as Mr. Romney’s real hair colour under the varnish. They said I could drive its cream leather seats anywhere I wanted: Alberta,…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Exposed yourself in a major US airport lately? Not for much longer, as the TSA is quietly removing its most invasive X-ray machines. The full-body X-ray scanner is called the Secure 1000 or, as the TSA calls it, a ‘backscatter’. It looks like two enormous, 6.5-feet-high stereo speakers that…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel At last! A suitcase that follows you like a little lamb. It’s called the Hop! suitcase and it’s powered by a Bluetooth, remote-control, techno-whizbang signal. How it works: Aim your smartphone at the suitcase, then start walking away. Your suitcase gets scared it’ll be left behind, so it starts…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel What can you give the zillionaire who has everything (other than more tax loopholes)? How about this travel-friendly, bulletproof briefcase priced at just $5,995. A bulletproof attaché is the perfect Christmas gift for successful/paranoid arms dealers and quirky billionaires like Richard Branson to safely tote important valuables (well, valuable…
Written by Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Here’s a clever idea for a travel service: Let a website ‘flip a coin’ on where you’ll holiday next. Can’t decide between Australia or Austria, Sweden or Swaziland, or Paris, France and Paris, Texas? GetGoing.com‘s here to help. They’re a San Francisco startup that decides which holiday is…
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