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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]

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]

Its time for another tech travel week. Enjoy the fantastic tech related tourist attractions from around the world. If your looking for more take a peek through the tech travel archives.

1) The Top 10 Tech Cities around the world, according to this guy. [Source]

2) Top 10 American Cities for IT jobs. [Source]

3) NY Store Front Displays 3D Ads, no glasses required. [Source]

4) Solar Powered signs for eco-friendly pubs. [Source]

5) Dallas Cowboys get the worlds largest HDTV. [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]

One of the best places for some tech travel is one that many of you might have already been to. The Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral is one of the meccas of tech travel, lucky for some of us our parents already took us there on a side trip to Disney World. The center itself has loads of interesting exhibits, but if you time things just right you will be able to see the main attraction, a shuttle launch. Although tickets sell out fast for the launches the shuttle taking off can be viewed from many near by locations outside of the Kennedy Space Center.

The next shuttle being launched is,
Shuttle Discovery - ISS 15A
February 12th, 2009 7:30AM

STS-119 will be the 28th U.S. mission to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver the Starboard 6 truss segment, giving the station its fourth and final set of power-generating solar wings.

This weeks tech round up has a bit of a mishmash of technology attractions. As usual Japan and the United States lead in the coverage, these two tech titans provide the bulk of technological advances so its only natural that the most tech attractions are found in these countries.

First up is a bowling alley that is most likely the largest in the world. The 116 lane bowling alley located in the city of Aichi, Japan is truly a site to behold. It is even more impressive when you consider this massive bowling alley was built in land scarce Japan. [Source]

A city in Georgia is considering the development of a virtual world where citizens could attend city council meetings and learn more about the events in their city. The program would encourage involvement by rewarding participants with points that would be redeemable for discounts at local businesses. It seems like a great way to get often apathetic citizens involved in their cities management. [Source]

Last on this weeks round up in the San Diego, California based company is hard at work on electromagnetic transportation systems. Most maglev systems are designed with passengers in mind, but General Atomics (has an awesome name) has a concept for maglev cargo trains. They already have a 400 foot test track created. [Source]

The worlds first modern mall was obviously built in the United States, but who knew it was built in Minnesota. The Southdale Center in Edina had all the features of today’s malls, indoor, climate controlled multiple levels of shops. It was designed after European arcades, and the builders nestled the mall around schools and homes..further malls of course choose to place them near big highways and place parking lots around them instead of schools. If you are ever in Edina drop in and take a moment for the past, present, and future [Source]