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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]

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]

Although we usually like to report the latest tech news by the week, things have been moving too fact lately. This edition should be named week 16 1/2 but to avoid confusion we will just get an early start on week 17. The tech tourist attractions from around the world continue to pour in.

1) Look for tags at your local Louis Vuitton to be sporting a new look courtesy of artist Takashi Murakami. The new tag utilizes a Panda and QR codes, truly has to be seen to believe. [Source]

2) You still can not order a pizza via Twitter, but almost. In New Orleans popular Naked Pizza has put up a billboard that has the company’s Twitter ID so users can follow them for hot pizza deals. [Source]

3) A Swiss play staring a robot, get tickets now! [Source] and a robotic marimba player. [Source]

4) Computer keyboard key sculpture in Shenzhen, China. [Source] and a matching mouse sculpture in Xiamen, China. [Source]

Another week jam packed with tech tourism features. Transportation systems around the world are all rushing to go green making it easier to visit the few non-transportation related attractions on this weeks list.

1) Obama announces $8 billions dollars for high speed rail in the United States, along with a massive list of potential routs. Unfortunately that $8 billion will not go very far, but its a start. [Source]

2) A Swedish Museum has recently acquired a historic piece, all be it not very old. The museum has a genuine server confiscated by police in a January 2008 raid on the Pirate Bay HQ. [Source]

3) Strange things happening in Scandinavian this week. Oslo, Norway is preparing to introduce buses that run on bio fuels extracted from human waste. [Source]

4) Augmented reality comes to a museum in the Netherlands. The Allar Pierson Museum in Amsterdam allows visitors to view virtual reconstructions of historic sites. [Source]

5) A London bar is pumping Gin and tonic into the air for patrons to breath in. For a $7 hourly slot you can come to the bar and get drunk of the fumes. [Source]

6) Billboards in Japan will now scan your face to display advertisements relevant to your individual taste. [Source]

7) The HAL Exoskeleton we have all been waiting for will have an initial manufacturing run of 400 units at $4200 a piece. Pretty reasonable price, but unless your an elderly Japanese with poor bone strength don’t get your hopes up. [Source]

Raleigh, North Carolina gets on board mobile DTV on their buses. Five buses will have it by August, with another 20 buses equipped by 2010 [Source]

9) 10 Green Projects Around the World that just might save..the world. [Source]

Another week, another tech round up. Lots to cover, and for once the geographic location of the tech attractions are spread out all over the world without the usual geographic location in Japan.

1) Alhambra Fortress in Granada has finally been read, by a computer at least. A 3D scanner has scanned all 10,000 inscriptions on the fortress.

2) In Britain one mans obsessive James Bond collection has been transformed into the first James Bond Museum.

3) Costa Rica seems to like airplanes transformed into buildings, there is the Costa Verde 727 Fuselage Suit and the El Avion restaurant.

4) More aviation tourism may be on its way to Dubai. Rumor has it that some company in Dubai has made a hefty bid on the last available British Airways Concorde.

5) While in Dubai do a little Sand Boarding, with the Sandviper, the first board dedicated to sand boarding.

6) The Tate is getting an Egyptian style extension, architectural firm Herzog & deMeuron has complete the stunning design.

7) Another aviation themed restaurant in South Korea, apparently the first of its kind to fly commercial. [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]

We have a lot of items for this weeks roundup. Its a worldwide cornucopia of tech travel news…

France: Smart parking meters send their tickets by text message. [Source]

LA, USA: The planned 54 story Ritz Carlton Hotel and JW Marriott will feature a massive see through outdoor screen when it opens in 2010. [Source]

Randers, Denmark: Digital historic story telling is projected onto a thousand year old stone carving. New meets Old. [Source]

Seattle, USA: Seattle has been named ‘the most wired city in America’, followed by Atlanta, Washington, Orlando and Boston. [Source]

Europe: Slick modern-clean technology gliding over green pastures. [Source]

Tokyo, Japan: The city is running a test where E-ink signs are used for disaster prevention instructions. [Source]

NYC, USA: Google partners with the city of New York to deliver a high tech tourism center. [Source]

Germany: Lego’s digital display advertisements show you what your completed Lego set will look like…in 3D! [Source]

San Fransisco, USA: Hornblower launches their ultra eco friendly wind and sun powered hybrid boat with regular service to Alcatraz. [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.