There’s a whole new category of high-tech travel gear which encompasses everything from luxurious to D&D-inspired (my favorite: the “bag of holding”) to travel gear that makes me think, “Did you come up with a list of technologies and then glue it onto a suitcase?” Some of these are deliciously over-the-top, such as the Heys USA BioCase, a $2,100 bag that use biometric technology to lock your luggage by referring to your storied fingertip data — with memory for up to eight fingertips. Or the $99 Ostrich pillow, a power-napping device.
But the one bag that makes me say, “Yeah, I want that” is a $399 “smart suitcase” scheduled to ship in early 2016 that locks, weighs, and tracks itself.
