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 Toro magazine To become the World’s Greatest Lover, I’m following sex advice from the smartest minds on Earth. This week, I’m studying an excellent guidebook entitled Hot and Fast, a brash primer on how to have “Sexy, Spontaneous Quickies for Passionate Orgasms.” Megan Andelloux, a no doubt impatient sexpert in Rhode…
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…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel Ever wished you could sail a hot tub into foreign waters? Now you can. A Dutch company is producing a hot tub that chugs like a tugboat down rivers, lakes, and fjords. Billed on their website as the “first wood-fired hot tub boat in the world!”, it’s called, of…
By Ken Hegan for MSN Travel WHOA! I instantly know what I want for Christmas. Some genius has invented the Perfect Clothing to Help You Sleep on Planes. It’s called the Burton Sleeper hoodie and it’s so cozy and clever, it’s clear that hoodies aren’t just for snowboarders and gun-shot victims anymore.