Travel gear guide
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Walk into a famous Paris film…right where it was shot
By Ken Hegan for MSN If you love movies as much as you love Paris, this new app will blow your film buff mind. Cinemacity lets you jump into your favourite Paris movie scenes. It’s a free app (available for iPhone, iPad, and Android) that invites you on unusual walking tours throughout Paris. When you…
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New York Pass gives you 80+ attractions for $85 (today only)
By Ken Hegan for MSN Here’s a sweet deal that’ll make your New York trip better, cheaper, and easier. For one day only, July 31st, 2013, you can pay just $85 (that’s $30 off the regular price) to get into over 80 New York attractions. It’s called, quite naturally, the New York Pass and you…
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Ira Glass interviews me on This American Life
Here’s my appearance on NPR’s This American Life In this episode, host Ira Glass sits beside me on a plane while I test out a truly obnoxious invention. I’m the first interview in episode #477. To listen in on the fun, click the image below then the arrow button: Original link
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Voice robot finds you cheap flights
By Ken Hegan for MSN Would you rather talk than type? Then you’ll like this robo-gadget. A budget travel search engine, CheapAir.com, has released a new voice-activated flight search app. The app – also called CheapAir — uses the Siri voice robot built into your iPhone (OS 4S and higher) or iPad 3. So now…
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Nice one — The Burrard Hotel lends you cruiser bikes
Nice touch at the Burrard Hotel in Vancouver, BC: Stay at this hipster-rific downtown hotel and they’ll lend you a cruiser bike to bomb around town.
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World’s best travel wallet saves lives, thwart terrorists, cures STDs
By Ken Hegan for MSN After years of searching, I’ve finally found the World’s Greatest Travel Wallet. It’s called the Bellroy Travel Wallet and it’s handcrafted at a secret Australian location by a tight-knit tribe of genius artisans. My guess: they’re made by a cabal of monks who care not about worldly possessions, as their…
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Air Canada pilot screams to be let off plane … mid-flight
By Ken Hegan for MSN There were two remarkable recent pilot stories. The first happened on a JetBlue flight from Pittsburgh to Boston on Monday night. The flight took off shortly after the visiting Boston Bruins upset the heavily-favoured Pittsburgh Penguins, destroying the flightless fowl by a whopping 6-1 in the Penguins’ home rink. Brutal.…
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Worst cities for a zombie outbreak?
By Ken Hegan for MSN A young Toronto man has created a map of every flight path in the world. The result is a lovely, ethereal map with exploding clusters of arcing blue lights. [click on the images to expand them] It looks like thousands of ghosts flying between continents. Either that or a glowing…
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