7 Futuristic Tech Travel Gadgets That Will Change the Way You Travel

From the research we have done it is in no doubt that in the next cou­ple of years the way peo­ple trav­el will have com­plete­ly changed. It will be no sur­prise to be able to touch and feel a hotel or trav­el loca­tion before you even get there or to have a robot­ic trav­el bud­dy that can speak to you just like a human! Good news is that you don’t have to wait for a cou­ple of years to see such devices, as we already have some awe­some trav­el gad­gets that are already shak­ing up the trav­el world.

1. Digital Passports

Source: Men’s Jour­nal

In about 5 years you will be able to car­ry your pass­port in your smart­phone mak­ing it vir­tu­al­ly impos­si­ble to for­get it at home or lose it. Once devel­oped, your infor­ma­tion such as your per­son­al bio­met­ric scan­ning infor­ma­tion, your flight reser­va­tions, board­ing pass­es and so on will be con­tained in your smart­phone.

2. Powerbag Briefcase

Source: Design Buzz

This is indeed a pow­er brief­case. If you are a trav­eller who can­not go for hours with­out con­nec­tion, then this is gad­get is for you. The brief­case has an in-built bat­tery that allows you to eas­i­ly recharge your gad­gets such as phones,  lap­tops etc.

3. Desti

Source: Huff­in­g­ton­post

Desti is an already exist­ing app that is chang­ing the way peo­ple plan their trips. The app clev­er­ly search­es rel­e­vant online trav­el reviews and com­ments based upon on your past search­es and pref­er­ences. The inter­est­ing bit about this app is that you can ask it ques­tions and it will answer you using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence tech­nol­o­gy, just as if you were talk­ing to anoth­er human being.

4. Smart Watches

Source: Busi­ness Insid­er

The pop­u­lar­i­ty of smart watch­es is grad­u­al­ly grow­ing and peo­ple are now using pop­u­lar ones such as the Sony Smart watch, the Sam­sung Galaxy Gear and the Peb­ble. Smart watch­es are wrist­watch­es with func­tions sim­i­lar to those of a smart­phone. Now you can eas­i­ly receive/make calls, check your emails, send mes­sages and much more, while you trav­el the world.

5. 360-Degree Photo Technology

Source: Busi­ness Van­cou­ver

Cam­era tech­nol­o­gy is devel­op­ing at high rate and man­u­fac­tur­ers are work­ing on cam­eras that will be able to take pho­tos in 360 degrees so imag­ine how awe­some it will be to see your vaca­tion pho­tos in 360 degrees.

6. I‑Free’s Artificial Intelligence

Source: I‑Free.com

This will prob­a­bly be the most life chang­ing inven­tion. The I‑Free Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence robot rec­og­nizes human speech and eas­i­ly talks back when spo­ken to. Named Frank, the robot can con­duct mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tions with you just as you would with any human being. Now imag­ine trav­el­ling solo with a robot as your com­pan­ion, wouldn’t that be grand?

7. Virtual Reality Headsets

Source: Ware­able

With vir­tu­al real­i­ty head­sets you will be able to eval­u­ate a hotel or trav­el des­ti­na­tion at a whole new lev­el. You will now be able to sam­ple and expe­ri­ence a range of hol­i­day sce­nar­ios in 3D. Cur­rent VR head­sets include HTC Vive, Sam­sung Gear VR, Ocu­lus Rift and many more. Updates are still in progress to enable you to expe­ri­ence this kind sce­nar­ios.