Elite Traveler November-December 2016

DISCOVER

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Technology

TEACHING YOUR COLLAR NEW TRICKS The wearable pet tech revolution has arrived. The Link AKC smart collar is an American Kennel Club-approved device that allows you to track your hound’s activity, keep an eye on his/her whereabouts and even set electronic boundaries (something Link calls “an electrical safe zone”) to limit where they can wander. You can also use it to monitor ambient temperature and there’s even a light to make sure you don’t lose them when you let them out at night. And all this activity can be tracked via a phone app. It even comes in a stylish leather collar. No wonder Link describes it as “beauty and brains.” $199, linkakc.com

Over the moon

Those who find other people a cinema irritant have long been able to build home movie theaters to enjoy big screen thrills without the nuisance. But what if it’s your nearest and dearest who irritate you? Thankfully the flexible display experts at Royole have an answer. Welcome to Moon, which Royole describes as “a foldable, 3D virtual mobile theater with noise-canceling headphones.” It’s essentially a private cinema for one. It combines virtual reality and a high-quality sound system, recreating a gigantic 800-in curved AMOLED screen boasting high-resolution (3,000 ppi) images and the sort of sound quality you’d

expect from a company where R&B star Akon is chief creative officer. $799, royole.com

UP AND AWAY JetPack Aviation is a company that does

that’s a bad thing. So with the JB10

100mph, it seems to herald a new dawn for personal transport; until you realize it only has enough power to fly for 10 minutes at a time. If this makes it a gadget to enjoy and have fun with, rather than a personal transport device, we’re not sure

was so memorably flown by William Suitor at the opening ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Now, with the JB10 it feels it finally has a jetpack that is ready for general sale. Capable of climbing to 10,000ft and reaching speeds of

possibly furnishing the answer to the question: “Where’s my jetpack?” we are now eagerly awaiting the arrival of hoverboards, flying cars and day trips to colonies on the moon. jetpackaviation.com

pretty much what you’d expect, in that it makes jetpacks. More accurately it has spent 40 years building and testing prototypes. The company made the RocketBelt that

Words: Richard Cree . Photos: PA Wire/Press Association Images