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I do a lot of traveling, in a typical year I make at least five or more trips. However, I do not always get health insurance. Although I have heard many horror stories of people not being insured and losing millions of dollars to unexpected medical bills I usually made the decision based on the risks I faced on a specific trip. The reason I would not always buy medical insurance was the high cost of it. My parents would always worry about my medical coverage on trips and finally my father took it upon himself to find me some low cost travel insurance. I was very embarrassed that my dad had to do this, but he ended up finding a great site with travel insurance so cheap it would be stupid not to get it. Ever since my dad recommended it to me I have always returned to the Travel Insurance Center for every one of my trips travel insurance.

This weeks installment of tech travel differs from most weeks editions. This week only will be featuring one location, the location this week is such a massive destination that we felt anything less then a full post would be shortchanging it…that, and I accidentally closed my Firefox filled with tons of material.

Black Rock Desert in Nevada, United
States is home to many natural wonders and features some of the most vivid photo opportunities of geysers anywhere on the planet. Despite being beautiful a natural park does not usually appear in tech travel guides, but this one has the distinction due its historical evens.

It was at Black Rock Desert that the current land speed record was set, if that not enough for you it was also the site of the first amateur rocket launch that reached space. Still not interested? Its also a part of the original Oregon Trail, so if you have downloaded the Facebook app or played the real version as a child I have your attention.

Beautiful scenery, mix of technology and nature, equals one of the best tech attractions North of the atomic bomb tests.

Due to the current economic uncertainty  I decided to start my Christmas shopping early this year so I could wait out for good deals, take some extra time to make my gifts thoughtful and avoid the madness of the mall. One of my favorite sites for shopping is Buy.com, I primarily uses it to by electronics, but you can find anything you are looking for on the site.

My wife is really into photography and since her camera is getting a little old I decided a new camera would be the perfect gift for her. After scouring buy.com I finally decided on what model I was looking for. My wife prefers Canon cameras so I decided to get her a Canon Powershot for Christmas. Once I decided on the model everything else was simple, the website directed me to the online retailer with the lowest price. It made my comparison shopping so much easier.

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Konichiwa, I am sure you will not have too much trouble guessing the theme of this weeks tech travel round up. If you guessed Japan, congratulations, have a shot of sake cause this week the tech travel roundup is headed back to Japan. Perhaps and a obvious choice, its hard to talk about technology without Japan stealing the spot light, so without further ado we bring you new McDonald’s concepts and take you down the back alleys in Akihabara.

First up is a hot new concept McDonalds has released in Japan. The Japanese have been going crazy for McDonald’s. First it was the Big Macs, next came the Mega Mac’s, and now its the Quarter Pounder. The hip new “non-branded” restaurants have been popping up in Tokyo. Its fast food minimalist at its finest, the new Quarter Pounder restaurants have only one burger on the menu, no its not the Big Mac. Source

In the United States we have elderly greeting people at Wal*Marts, and cartoon characters to great peope at Amusement Parks. In Japan they have robots! There is a new Robot stationed outside iExpo 2008 in Tokyo to warmly greet visitors. Let the eldery retire, keep the cartoons on TV, Robots are never tired, and hopefully never angry. Source

Finally, as promised a tour through a back alley used electronics Akihabara shop. The store is packed full of gems, once the height of technology these items were quickly discarded for something bigger or better, technology moves fast in Japan but these stores offer a chance to pause and remember. Source

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I recently got married, and since both my wife and I were coming out of college we needed furniture for our entire house. This is a tall order, even buying one or two pieces of furniture can be a daunting task, let alone trying to find everything your house needs in a short timeline. Both of our parents provided us with some furniture, and other items we decided to forgo purchasing until later, but we still needed to pick up many items. We tried the local stores but it was mostly the same uninspired generic Ikea pieces. A friend of ours recommended we should take a look at Lombok’s Furniture website. My wife and I sat down and immediately loved what we saw.
The website works so well, from the moment you hit the homepage to checkout the process is incredibly smooth. Its very easy to find the type of furniture you are looking for, and when you decide to make the purchase the steps are intuitive and easy to follow.
The first item we were shopping for was coffee tables, we checked the site and sure enough there was about a dozen available, the hardest part about the whole process was narrowing it down to just one.
The next item on our list was desks, we both do a lot of work at home and needed a desk that would be functional and stylish, we did not want to have a desk that was hidden away in a designated room, we wanted something that could be out in the open and matched our decor.
Finally we needed a wide range of home accessories to make out new place feel like home. Thins like decorations, candles, and pillows can go a long way to improving the appearance of a home. We found some perfect items that matched the other furniture we had purchased.
Shopping on Lombok Furniture was a great idea. We bought beautiful well made items at amazing prices. It was such a good experience, so much more comfortable then trudging around the shops for hours on end. If your looking for some furniture I recommend pouring yourself a glass of wine and having a look at the Lombok Furniture collection.

This weeks tech travel round up has a specific theme to it, museums. I know, I know museums are not the frist thing that springs to mind when you think about technology, but bare with me. There a tons of great museums out there, these new museums are not like your grandfathers museums. Unlike the crappy museums they used to take you too as a kid these are filled with all sorts of tecnological marvales of both the past and the present. If you don’t know where you came from you will never know where your going.

The first stop is Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, you have to see it to believe it! The museum is full of all sorts of mechanical odds and ends, games machines and other coin operated objects seems to be the theme.

Another coin obsessed antiquity collector is the Museum Mecanique in San Fransisco, California.  Many penny games and slot machines are in the museum, along with what may be the only steam operated motorcyle in the world.

While on the theme of wacky carnival style pieces have a look at the Pez museum located in Burlingame, California. Even if Pez’s are not your thing you have to respect their impact on the internet. E-bay was founded as a way for the entreprenurs wife to meet other Pez peddlers.

Next is a peice that New Scientest ran looking at various abandoned or dismanteled large scale science experiments that litter the world.

Keep going across the Pacific and you will find a museum and tech obsessed country, Japan. The Japanese love their museums and have one (or two) for just about everything. However, when it comes to popular culture works such as Manga and technology they feel a better national museum is in order. The Japan Times has a great article looking at Japanes attempt to preserve their present.

Looking at the future of Museum, China not wanting to be outdone by Japan is constructing a very unique museum. Whats the best way to view a shipwreak? Underwater of course! Moving old wreaks can be very dnagerous so China is bring the museum to the shipwreak. Five great halls will cover the wreak and some of its 80,000 treasures.

Security cameras can be one of the best ways of protecting your home or business from crime. Not only do criminals do everything they can to avoid committing crimes in monitored areas, should a crime occur you will have a picture of the culprit. This evidence is not only useful to the police and courts for catching and prosecuting criminals, but insurance companies too will give you a much easier time when you file a claim for theft or damage and have video evidence to prove. Some insurance companies may even offer you a discount if you install them.

I did not need more then one reason to install security cameras at my business, an employee of mine was assaulted during a robbery one night. The criminal was caught, but video would have made it so much faster. I felt terrible that I had not done enough to protect my employees. The day after the robbery and assault I went online and ordered some cameras. I feel better and my employees are safer.