Luxury tent: What, no hot tub?
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Plenty of people out there are hesitant to go camping these days because of their overwhelming dependence on gadgets. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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There isn't much choice for travelers looking for luxury accommodations in Boston, but that's about to change in a big way.
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This glass-walled mobile home is low-budget high living for modern nomads. From Wired magazine.
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After Labor Day, summer pretty much folds its tent, but that doesnÂt mean you canÂt cram for the final stretch, and the New York Times has the perfect cheat sheet.
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By Roger Petterson  It's getting to be time to plan your spring break, not a wild college student party but something for the family, an excuse to head south to overindulge in food that makes you think of warmer weather, to be outdoors without your parka and mittens.
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Life & style: Today's dilemma for Beth:  My friends are off to the festivals but I'm broke. How can I have fun?
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Strategically-placed device denies surfers an iFull Here's a Friday afternoon poser for you: what do you do if you're on a beach doing a swimwear shoot for Sports Illustrated and your bikini inexplicably falls off and you're left sprawling butt-naked on the golden sands with your ample charms exposed to the snapper's sweaty lens?â¦
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Here's a problem that some investment dollars help solve. Apparently, the TechCrunch 40 conference isn't streaming to the outside world because the Palace Hotel has incredibly lame networking, and they won't allow conference promoters to bring in more wires? This is what I hear, although it's not confirmed. Emails to the conference promoters yesterday were not responded to.  I've also received emails from a number of companies announcing products at the show who want coverage on Scripting News, so my interest is not entirely idle.  So what does it take to establish one hotel in SF as the default tech conference hotel? Networking! Geez, you'd think it's obvious by now. We do things that require networks. Look in any conference room around the world for a clue. And supposedly San Francisco is the central node in the network of technology bringing all this great stuff to the rest of the world. So where is the hotel that gives us the very most basic technology to wire up conferences so that the whole world can participate?  Do we need to move the tech industry to another city? Someone please ask the Mayor or Google or someone in charge when they're going to fix this problem. It should have been solved in 1997, and it's already 2007.  BTW, here's a clue: there are some great business opportunities, beyond conferences, for the first physical location in downtown SF to solve this problem. Just ask Loic.
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(InfoWorld) - Strange but true, some people -- certified techies among them -- prefer to turn it all off when theyâre on holiday. [See also: Great escapes for geeks | Top 10 vacations] Stanton W. Schmidt writes, âI really do want to leave it all behind when I go on vacation. With that in mind I would recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. There, you cannot get a signal for your cell phone, no matter which provider you have. You don't drive in, you paddle in (no boat motors allowed either). And they don't even allow you to carry in cans or bottles. And no matter where you go, you are likely not to see another human being for most of your trip.â âI purposefully select vacation choices where it's extremely difficult to geek out every day,â replied Ed Kummel. âMy last vacation was in Durango, Colo. Sure, there are coffeehouses in town that have Internet access, but the bike ride down and back up the mountain is not worth it! I learned to make do with my BlackBerry for that week!â For those who would brave the mountain for some quality Internet time, hereâs your real cold turkey, from Gregg Cooke: âThe banks of West Virginia's Greenbrier River, most of which lies inside the National Radio Quiet Zone, so named because it is a 13,000-square-mile âholeâ in the eastern part of the state centered over the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Even the slightest radio transmissions are hunted down by a team of radio detectives and silenced â¦ they even find malfunctioning microwaves and mistuned automobiles. (Your tax dollars go toward this, you know.) The result is blissful radio silence for the gi-normous radio dishes the NRAO operates to scan the skies and look deep into celestial radio sources. You'll get no cell or wireless signal here, guaranteed!â
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There's a point when home shoppers get past their initial awe and realize that no, the wet bar featured in the model isn't included in the base price. Neither is the home theater with stadium seating, nor the high-tech kitchen appliances.
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Travel: Nepal wants to ban nudity on Everest. The irony is that this is where trouserless-peaking started with George Mallory, claims regular naked climber Hank Wangford
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As long as you don't go to the beach to get wet, and you don't mind sand in your electronics, this prototype swimwear could come in handy. In Sex Drive Daily.
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"Fashion is not just for a chosen few who have front-row seats in some elite tent somewhere."
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What would a visit to New York be without a little therapy?
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Travel: They are no longer just grotty dives for skint backpackers. Benji Lanyado recommends 10 stylish sleeps.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK   LAZY weekends, outdoor cafes, and daylight past 8 p.m.   The kids are away at camp and it's too hot to cook at home anyway.   Something about summer makes the thought of eating out especially inviting.
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Travel: Being broke needn't mean going without a break this summer. Gemma Bowes offers 10 ways to get away on a tiny, or even non-existent, budget.