No one likes hauling ridiculously heavy bags around the airport. LiveLuggage’s Power Assisted series uses a special wheel to make your traveling a heck of a lot more lightweight. This luggage is designed to distribute 85% of the total weight directly upon the wheels, making you feel you’re only carrying a fraction of it.

The intelligent torque control powers the wheels and the pressure is applied to the handle, leading to the concentration of force sensors at the base. The tilt switch/sensors power the wheels at specific angles between 15% and 35% incline.

This torque control activates manually or automatically when necessary and in the event that you drop your luggage, it’ll automatically deactivate so your stuff won’t resist gravity and fly away.
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Waiting in the airport for your luggage to sail down the assembly line is both suspenseful and boring. Seeing that your luggage is safe and intact is great, but the wait time is boring as hell, especially if your suitcase is your place to sit. The Bluebird concept from Nate Lynch keeps your luggage communicating with your phone via Bluetooth technology.

A special Bluebird dongle is attached to your luggage which sends a signal to your phone when your luggage is close by. The Bluebird will blink with its blue glow until you receive your luggage, cutting out the trouble of looking through everyone else’s shitty luggage to spot your own. If you’re lucky enough to have a RoboPorter at your service, the rest is smooth sailing. (more…)

Johnny Cash, rest his soul, might need to have someone release a new version of his song “Hey Porter” to better survive the test of time, because this porter doesn’t have a pulse. The RoboPorter holds your luggage for you and transports it to your beckon call.

The Kita Kyushu airport in Japan offers RoboPorters to guide you and your luggage to a bus stop or taxi. Their puny robot brains are yet to know how to guide you to your car. Psh, and they call them slaves. — Andrew Dobrow

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