“Webcam tourism” could one day replace the real thing, thanks to the rapid spread of webcams in scenic areas. From NASA’s Mars-cam to the surfcam, these (almost) realtime images let travelers view a beautiful locale before (or instead of) going there in person. Image from SurfhouseSurfcam.com. [icWales]
It may have been a burgeoning industry, but space tourism is going to flame out after 2008 in Russia. Due to international agreements, Russian officials say next year is the last for civilians to pay wads of cash to zoom up to the space station. So if you’ve got your hopes set on seeing the…
A newly developed phone from NEC will take the spoken words of Japanese tourists and turn them into an English translation on the fly. The translator’s 50,000 word vocab is geared towards the typical tourist pleas: “Can I have a subway route map?” “How far away is the hotel?” and “Where can I find decent…
Visitors to Vancouver can now join a tour group that takes them across the city’s Battlestar Galactica filming locations. You can bet that a trip up to the Great White North will be a lot cheaper than finding something with faster-than-light drives on it.