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Its a busy week on the Tech Travel Week Roundup, focuses heavily on Dubai but also venturing deep into the Peruvian jungle we once again bring you the best tech attractions from around the world.

1) Take a ride on Dubai’s brand new subway, a video of the entire trip sped up too 818mph. [Source]

2) Some ad agency offers their vision of the future of Dubai, is it the annual make a video of Dubai week? [Source]

3) The 1km high Nakheel Tower should be complete around 2019. [Source]

4)Missel Silos converted into homes

5) The tallest abandoned structures in the world. [Source]

6) Decorating Machu Pechu with a giant laser light cannon. [Source]

Another week full of wonderful technical attractions scattered around the world. As hard as we tried there was no real theme to this weeks tech travel roundup.

1) Solar powered Wi-Fi in a bus stop, you must be in San Fransisco. [Source]

2) Futurologist Ian Yeoman gave a presentation on the distant future of the travel industry…it is a little bleak. He envisions people staying indoors, for example indoor ski resorts, one if Dubai is fine but I would not want to make a habit of visiting fake environments. He also envisions lots of robots, and robot sex which we will leave up to you to yay or nay. [Source]

3) Promo for 2012 or just a bad real estate investment? A new concept puts a pop 20,000 city right on the Mississippi in New Orleans. Its a neat concept but real estate is not exactly in high demand in the area, but it might fly somewhere else. [Source]

Soup and Michael Jackson steal the show of this weeks Tech Travel Roundup. From Japan to the United States here is this weeks list of the hottest tech attractions.

1) RIP Michael Jackson, an exclusive tour of Michael Jackson’s personal arcade, much of which was auctions off earlier this year. [Source]

2) McDonald’s will be offering a free charge for your card along with a Big Mac meal. The fast food restaurant is piloting a new program with electric vehicle charging stations at a Cary, North Carolina location. [Source]

3) Japanese love ramen, and they also love robots, so it only seems logical that they would combine the two. Meet the man who wants to remove the men that make ramen [Source]. It may not be as high tech but vending machines also deliver machine made ramen ordering [Source]. The Japanese also love their fake Korean BBQ [Source].

4) Go on a dinosaur safari from July to September at museums exhibition in Cheba, Japan. [Source]

5) Living on the moon? [Source]

Summer has come, its time to get outdoors and maybe even go on a road trip or two. In other words it is the perfect time to explore some of the worlds greatest tech attractions. Network World has gathered up some of America’s hottest geek destinations with their 11 Summer Vacations For Geeks, and an article from the writer of the Geek’s Atlas.

1) Choose from these 11 Tech Terrific vacation destinations this summer. [Source]

2) A list of tech shrines that every Geek must visit! [Source]

3) Japan is hard at work building another GIAN ROBOT!!!! [Source]

4) Meanwhile Japans other GIANT ROBOT!! is basking in the lime light, enjoying its fifteen minutes of fame. [Source]

Silicon Valley, the birthplace of our modern computer industry ranks heavily on this weeks tech travel roundup. Obviously a modern day mecca for the newest of the new, today we will look at two of the major valley attractions and one additional attraction on the American East Coast.

1) The garage that the worlds largest computer firm was founded in, hard to believe HP came from such humble beginnings. [Source]

2) The Computer History Museum features the 1954 Sage Computer which not only kept North America a little safer but required 20% of the worlds programmers to complete. [Source]

3) A Billboard that tracks the C02 emissions, if a large number means something to you check it out. [Source]

There are many oddities in this world, some of them are technoilogical marvels. This week gets a little interesting with some of the less well known tech attractions from around the world. Consumer and enjoy.

1) Jules Vern giant marriott in France [Source], from the same team that brought us the Sultans Elephant. [Source]

2) The Russian Space Museum in Moscow. [Source]

3) The Atlas Obscura, a collection of some of the most obscure stores, attractions and monuments on earth. From the downright odd to the intriguing its all here. [Source]

4) A massive touchscreen RFID friendly screen makes its first appearance at a Cannes Advertising festival. [Source]

5) Spaceport America’s construction begins this Friday. [Source]

Domo Arigot Mr. Roboto. Japan is huge on robots, just last week we have several Japan/Robot related entries, and the land of the rising bot is back again this week with more robot related tech travel news.

1) Gundam turns 30, Japan builds giant Gundam, Aliens scarred shitless. [Source]

2) A long overdue twist on the arcade crane game, claws are substituted for robots. [Source]

3) Robot Hall of fame in Pittsburgh makes some new editions. [Source]

4) Massive solar array goes live in Tampa. [Source]

This weeks edition is massive! Tons of tech travel updates, skim the list and pick your favorite otherwise invest the good three hours it will take to read these all. Enjoy’

1) Oldest camera in the world is being showcased in Macau. [Source]

2) A Multicellular Caravan will keep you connected while camping. [Source]

3) Australian Envirobank’s revers recycling. [Source]

4) Vstone Robot Center in Akihabara, Japan. [Source]

5) Amsterdam has converted some old silo’s into the ultimate climbing gym. [Source]

6) Confessions of a Space Camp Alum, you mean people actually went to these spacecamps? [Source]

7) Pot Sniffing helicoprtes in the Netherlands? Who knew, most the pot grown there is illegal. [Source]

Convert a metal detector into an oil detector. Gold or Black Gold, you decide! [Source]

9) McDonalds converted into moon research recovery lab. [Source]

10) Slooh: control some of the worlds largest telescopes for reasonable prices. [Source]

Plenty more tech tourism attractions to visit, the future is friendly and coming at you fast.

1) Masdar, UAE is installing a form of personal rapid transportation (PRT). Picture a mix between a taxi and a train. [Source] A similar system is also going into Heathrow airport in London.

2) BrightSource is installing the largest solar panel collection in Southern California. The panels will be spread over seven locations, they will generate enough power for 845,000 homes. [Source]

3) A young man in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma has opened up the towns first museum…in his bedroom. The man has collected action figures for years and has thousands in his collection. There is also a place for the kids to dress up as super heroes. [Source]

4) It seems unliky given the current economic climate, but South Korea has set aside $559 million to build Robot Land Theme park in Incheon. [Source]

5) io9 rounded up the coolest looking observatories. [ Source]

A big week for mobile devices, and such is the occasion of our first tech round up dedicated entirely to mobile experiences.

First off is the opening of a Vertu flagship store in Ginza, Japan. The store like the phones are over the top affairs simply oozing luxury. While the question tasteful or tacky? rings out loud and clear with Vertu’s phones and stores our opinion is the store is much easier on the eyes then their phones. [Source]

If you are tired of looking at tacky man made creations get out of the city and look up, way up… There is a new program coming out for the Nintendo DS, an interactive star map. Impress your girlfriend or bore your grandchildren there is a little something for everyone with the Hoshizora Navi (Sky Navigator). [Source]

In an attempt to entertain fans or perhaps to cut down on rioting Arsenal football/soccer fans will soon be able to catch live action and video replays on their PSPs. Some DS added value experiences have been available for baseball stadiums for some time now, but this is the first such feature for the Sony PSP. [Source]