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Photos: Driverless pod cars offer a glimpse of the future of transport
Photo Each pod is designed to transport up to four adults and their luggage. From next year, travellers at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 will be able to step into one of these vehicles and be whisked straight to their... [13 Aug 2009]
RFID in Aviation: Airport Luggage Control
White Paper There is a strong potential for implementation of recent IT technologies in aviation, such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). Major aviation industry players, such as IATA (International Air transport Association), Boeing or... [14 Apr 2009]
Rapid ROI Without the Baggage at Tripp Luggage
White Paper In the past, Tripp Luggage was feeling the strain of its own success. Formed in 1991, the luggage designer and importer had grown from a wholesaler with half a dozen factory outlets into one of the UK's... [09 Jan 2009]
Photos: Top summer holiday gadgets
Photo With a nod to keeping in touch with the outside world without going the whole hog and taking your BlackBerry to the beach, consider packing a netbook in your suitcase - such as the Eee PC 900 (pictured) which weighs in at just under 1kg... [11 Aug 2008]
Super scanners at UK airports
News Explosives, guns, liquids and knives are easier for security staff to spot using about 200 dual-imaging cabin luggage scanners. High tech security scanners that can slash queues are now in place at the UK's seven major... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment Like the rest of you, I have stood in line as my luggage is X-rayed, followed by the occasional arms-outstretched pat down. First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. [29 Apr 2008]
RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News Baggage mishandling was the largest cause of delay in reuniting passengers with their luggage (49 per cent of cases). At T5, the problem wasn't with the luggage tags. As Heathrow Terminal Five (T5)... [18 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?
Comment It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5 last week - and my luggage even came with me. I was off the plane - and had picked up my... [16 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale systems, mobile phones and security systems. Watch... [14 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment My colleague was on a flight to Vancouver yesterday and had to leave (and arrive) for a week's skiing without any luggage. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers,... [03 Apr 2008]
Heathrow T5: The end in sight for first day blues?
News British Airways (BA) has drafted in 400 extra workers to help reunite passengers with luggage stuck in the backlog created over the past few days. The problems at Heathrow's new Terminal 5 appear to be lessening four... [31 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up For starters the newly opened facility had problems with the baggage system, which led to all luggage check-in at the new terminal being suspended. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick... [28 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News On Thursday evening the problems with the baggage system led to all luggage check-in at the new terminal being suspended. Reports said some passengers had to wait up to two-and-a-half hours after their flight had landed... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo This shows the RFID reader logging items of luggage in the conveyor to make sure it ends up at the right destination. The biggest mobile trade show in the world, aptly called Mobile World Congress 2008, took place in... [28 Feb 2008]
Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall
News Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of... [28 Feb 2008]
