Hasta La Ideas

According to EU legislation from 2005, airline passengers are can be entitled to compensation in cash for delayed or cancelled flights, or if they are denied a seat on an overbooked flight. However, passengers are not always aware of what they are entitled to, or do not have time to claim compensation. Here is where the Dutch company EU Claim comes in. The company offers to processes claims on behalf of passengers, charging a fee of 27% of successfully claimed compensation. The company claims to have netted its clients over EUR 100,000, averaging EUR 400-500 per passenger so far this year. The company has a website in Dutch (and one partly in English) and a desk in the departure lounge at Schiphol airport. Maybe a business idea?brbr

According to the buzz, Samsung has taken out a patent for a mobile phone antenna with an integrated USB plug. This would make it possible to charge the telephone via the computer’s USB port. It would also make data exchange between the computer and the phone possible, we suppose. We don’t write much on mobile tech, but if this is true we think it is smart, and it would be really convenient, too.brbr

Last we flew home from Bangkok, it turned out that our luggage had turned very heavy during our stay. Not that we had been shopping too much (which perhaps we had), but also because everything in those suitcases probably weighed 20 percent more in the warm and moist weather. We did not care to rip open our cases and start sorting what to keep and what to get rid of right in front of the check-in counter, so we just had to look happy and hand over the plastic. But it was neither fun nor cheap. But, with a scale like this (or one like it) maybe we could have had the chance to give our cases a well needed purge before we even got into the cab to go to the airport. The scale is USD 24:85; it would have paid for itself many times over. But the next time… The scale is available on Magellan’s or on Amazon-, where it is a tad bit cheaper; USD 22:95.brbr

We all have stuff we more or less always want to carry around with us (cellphone, keys, sunglasses, you name it), but few have any good place to put said stuff when you are at home. The hall furniture is probably in a similarly chaotic state in everybody’s house. This, however, is a rather clever way of creating some de-cluttering; a small storage box combined with a coat hook for the hall or entrance. This way everybody can have their own little box with room for their must-have-stuff. Designed by Luca Nichetto for Bosa Ceramiche in 2005.brbr

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