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September 11, 2005
Straight From InsideOut's Forums
There's been some interesting posts on our forums lately (thanks "Massage London UK"). From new travel gear to pay-what-you-can hotels, here are some of the ones we liked:
electric backpack a must?
« on: Sep 9th, 2005
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a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania has led the development of a backpack that can generate around 7 watts of electricity, without solar cells, and actually providing a more comfortable backpack in the process.
Seven watts is sufficient to power a handful of electronic gadgets at the same time, including a cell phone, an MP3 player, a handheld computer and a water purifier
Taking advantage of vertical motion, much like some wave generators, the backpack harnesses body movements while hiking. The spring mechanism involved appears to ‘cushion’ the movement of the backpack on the wearer, leaving those who have tried it saying it is more comfortable then standard gear.
The net weight gain of the device only appears to be a few ounces.
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flying hotel?
« on: Sep 9th, 2005
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fully reclining seat and far more freedom to move about even for the cattle class passengers - all this without losing aircraft passenger-capacity or increasing airfares significantly.
pay-what-you-can hotel opens in a park in Austria
« on: Today
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DasParkHotel is a series of single-occupancy rooms in Linz, Austria.
Tourists can book the rooms online, and pay whatever amount they can. As the hotel has no facilities beyond sleeping rooms, guests should plan to use facilites like nearby showers in the public pool, and bathrooms in museums (the web site has a map of local facilities).
The intent is great, but the open hole in the top of the cylinder raises the question of how to keep out unwanted intruders (human and animal), rain, and bugs ...
new species at London Zoo - humans
« on: Today at 6:13am »
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if you get bored with Notting Hill Festival you can head for some enjoyment to London Zoo - the coming weekend some 8 volunteers will stay in the monkey compound wearing nothing more than fig leaves and eating bananas.
they might stay there longer to preserve human gene pull - just in case the rest of the humanity exterminate themselves.
Posted by insideoutmag at September 11, 2005 07:38 PM