Gizmodo: suitcase

Confine Your Baby in a Motorised Suitcase Concept

Kat Hannaford — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:33:58 EST

It's like someone actually thought the adult-sized vehicles in Wall-E were a good idea. Thankfully, like with most things on Yanko Design, this individual baby confinement torture-device is just a concept, but it's also a scary insight into someone's mind.

That someone being designer Pouyan Mokhtarani, whose baby buggy contains a LED screen so you can gurgle and babble away at your baby from a distance, lest you pick up diseases from it, and the air purification unit ensures your baby breathes nothing but the cleanest oxygen.

Auto-rock it to sleep, and even flush away the baby poop with the Auto Diaper function. Actually, the more we look at this concept, the more we wish we could have an adult-sized one. [Yanko Design]

My Weak Muscles Need This Self-Pulling Suitcase

Jason Chen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EDT

I have the musculature of a ten-year-old. Thus, I really want this self-propelled suitcase that holds up to 70 lbs and scoots at up to 3 MPH.

We've seen it before, but now we have details. The electric motor engages when you tilt your suitcase between 15 and 35 degrees, transferring 85% of the weight onto the wheels and off of your arm. Each charge lasts 2 1/4 hours and can be taken up to 1 3/4 miles. Unfortunately, the $1,300 price tag means it's cheaper to rent a dude at $10 an hour for 130 hours to carry your suitcase for you than it is to buy one. [Hammacher via Random Good Stuff]

Tank Suitcase Can Go Through Every Obstacle

Jesus Diaz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:30:00 EST

Stairs, big stairs, bigger stairs, you name it: Woo Moonhyung's Panzer-like threaded Climbing UP suitcase can be dragged through every airport obstacle with ease. A winner of the Red Dot 2008, for good reason. [OhGizmo!]

16 Tricked Out Gadget Suitcases

Sean Fallon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:30:00 EST

The folks at OObject have put together a list of 16 gadget suitcases that can handle any situation a super spy may find himself in. Spy transmitter suitcase? Check. Spy kitchen suitcase? You bet. Spy kayak suitcase? Definitely (that one always comes in handy). Spy suitcase nuke? Well...sort of. Hit the link to check out the entire list. [OObject]

Bacon Sets Off Airport Bomb Detector

Dan Nosowitz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:13:33 EDT

According to German news site Nachrichten, a passenger at the Linz airport set off alarms when his suitcase full of bacon was mistaken for a bomb. The story was translated with Google, so it's high on hilarity and low on verifiable detail.

Apparently when asked to identify the suspicious material in his luggage, the passenger replied, "There is fat inside." This explanation understandably failed to allay concerns and the passenger was forced to remove the offending pork products from his suitcase. Evidently, bacon has a similar "nuclear density" to certain types of bombs.

The other items accompanying the bacon were weird enough to warrant an investigation anyway: He also had a hotel-quality electric shoeshiner and a package of some sort of electronic doll with wires and batteries.

It seems that he was concerned that the bacon actually might have been a bomb planted by his estranged wife, who packed it for him, but eventually it was determined to be a safe, if bizarre, item for carry-on. No word on whether the new "checkpoint friendly" bags are bacon-compatible. [Boing Boing]

The Suitcase Bike: Oh God, They Actually Made It

blongo3 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:45:58 EDT

Some of you might remember the Suitcase Bike concept that we showed you last year. Where the bike folds up into itself to resemble a suitcase with wheels. While this may look similar, it has one major difference. It's in production.

That's right, in just a few short months for $400 you'll be able to ride around on one of the oddest designed bikes in years. What's too bad is that it actually is quite impressive, as far as the mechanics and everything. But the design, it just screams "Give me an atomic wedgie."

You should definitely check out the video of the bike magically assembling itself and riding off after the jump.

– Ben Longo

The Suitcase Bike: It's Real! [Treehugger via Ride This Bike]

Limited Edition Briefcase Go-Kart Track

Charlie White — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:33:03 EST

As soon as we saw this briefcase-full-o'-go-karts, we immediately began trying to figure out how to somehow get our hands on one. Winding around inside this smartly styled steel briefcase is about 6 feet of track, where you can race the two tiny cars against each other using two wheel-shaped wired remote controllers. It runs for five hours on each 9V battery, but you'll have to shell out $780 for this much fun.

A super-wide tight shot of the karts in action, after the jump.

Whoa, looks like tons of mini-fun! – Charlie White

Product Page (in German) [Pro-Idee, via Oh Gizmo]