Triposo is the perfect app for travelers with in-depth destination guides for the whole world. Not just Paris, but also Palembang, Porto and Pula. Available on iPhone and Android, Triposo gives smart suggestions based on your location and time. The app will suggest a great coffee place nearby just when you need a shot of caffeine.

Triposo lets you log your trip effortlessly and creates an awesome looking travel log for you. The app works offline, and even the incredibly detailed city maps don’t need an internet connection.

Polish firm Deep Ocean Technology has unveiled the latest of Dubai’s outlandish architectural endeavors — the Water Discus Hotel — which is to be comprised of a series of sci-fi styled discs, one of which will be positioned 21 stories underwater. Offering guests a view directly into the Persian Gulf from the beds of their modest two-person rooms, the hotel is to be constructed by shipyard firm Drydocks World. In addition to the unusual accommodation, the proposed hotel is to include a diving center, underwater tourist vehicles, a spa, garden areas, an above-water terrace, and a helipad for guests.

Deep Ocean Technology Unveils Plans for Their Insane Underwater Discus Hotel in Dubai [Inhabitat]

American commuters these days have numerous incentives to carpool. From a financial perspective, the rising cost of gas (expected in many places to set record highs this summer) makes cutting that expense an extremely expensive one. From an efficient perspective, the use of High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in numerous metropolitan areas makes the carpool commute a routinely shorter one. And, from the perspective of lifestyle and wellness, a joint commute has been shown to equate with lower stress levels among participants.

So someone who commutes in a major metro area has few reasons to forgo the carpool option. But there’s just one problem: many people don’t know anyone who has a similar daily commute that they do. Neighbors often work in different places. Co-workers often hail from different suburbs. People commute at different times of the day. Instead of going through the hassle of finding a carpool, many workers instead opt to buy a executive leather office chair and telecommute some days from home.

One new business hopes to solve this problem by matching commuters of similar locations and schedules. SF Casual Carpool, which is currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area, provides designated meeting spots where people can congregate in the morning, join together in cars, and head for a central Downtown location. Then the reverse process occurs in the afternoon. SF Casual Carpool hopes to continue expanding its meetup and dropoff points over the next couple years.

While there are already online carpool finders out there, such as eRide Share, this new enterprise attempts to solve one of the central problems that plague the others: all too often, people put out a specific request and never find a match. The process, then, becomes a protracted rather than a streamlined one. With set pickup spots, SF Casual Carpool promises a convenience and a reliability that no other service can offer.

The service also promises to serve as a potentially-lucrative business idea. It already contains several advertising possibilities, and as interest grows we can only expect that membership requirements will be implemented, as well.

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DealAngel is launching a new way to search for hotels.

When you go to the DealAngel site and select your dates, it provides a list of hotels and prices for your trip. Each of those rooms is assigned a “value” score — basically, how the offered price compares to the expected market rate for the room. If a room on a given night would normally cost $300, and instead it’s priced at $150, that’s a great value — but you might not see that if you’re searching purely based on price.

That “market rate” estimate for the room is based on pricing data from both that hotel and surrounding locations — in fact, DealAngel says its algorithm looks at more than millions of data points across the Web.

DealAngel Helps You Find The Best Hotel Deals — Not Just The Cheapest [TechCrunch]

Cruise ships are known for innovation. It takes quite a feat of engineering to make a complete world of leisure, especially a floating one. The constant rocking of a boat can upset many stomachs. On a massive cruise ship the effect is less felt. While the passengers may feel centered, however, light objects on board will continue to slide around. Enter, the self-leveling pool table. Cruise ships are fully stocked with a host leisurely activities. Naturally, billiards is high on the list. But if the pool table were simply bolted to the deck, the balls would roll like the sea.

How It Works

The pool table doesn’t react to the ships movement because it is suspended on a gyroscope.

A gyroscope is a device that was introduced in the early 1800s. A gyroscope is created when several circles are mounted inside each other on different axis. An outside force (the swaying of the ship) may move the outermost circle, but the motion will never transfer to center. Simply put, there are enough pivot points on the pool tables mounting that motion from the ship just won’t transfer. Gravity will keep the actual table sitting nice and level—just as it should be.

This table is on the Royal Caribbean’s “Radiance of the Seas” vessel, but all cruise lines offer equally innovative features to keep their landlubber passengers happy.

Idea Contributed by Danielle, thanks! All aspects of sea-worthy business from pool tables to portholes interest Danielle. You can read her salty tales of swindling at suitsandladders.co.uk. Danielle blogs on behalf of Sears and other brands she uses.

PadInTheCity is a small startup company created recently by two young entrepreneurs from Madrid with an original and unique idea in the world: to offer internet-enabled iPads 3G to visitors to the city, fully loaded with apps that let them enjoy and experience Madrid in a way that no traditional paper guide can offer.

PadInTheCity will rent iPads to tourists and business travelers who come to Madrid to stay for a few days with:

• Unlimited Internet access on the iPad
• Pre loaded with an always-growing number of apps specific to travelers like maps, sightseeing guides, games, and information and translation tools.
• The iPad is delivered to the hotel or picked up in a specific location (coming soon).
• The price charged is 25€ a day with no hidden costs.

Caligae Travel Files is a new online start-up that is launched recently and aimed at collecting author’s articles and illustrations about world nations and travel destinations. This project mixes travel information, art, good humor and entertaining anthropology focusing on the locals as the most interesting attraction of the spot. This is the main distinctive feature.

The gathered contents will go beyond the limits of the website in the form of free e-books. Paper versions will be offered for sale and all the money will be used for philanthropic activities related with ecological, aesthetic and cross-cultural education worldwide. Writing & art contests are foreseen to be run on a regular basis.

Tipped by Anna Shemonaeva. Thanks!

There are so many quirky products and online tools to help you make the most of your Instagram snaps, but we love the idea of InstaMatch, a cute way of turning your photos into a memory game!

InstaMatch is an app, which allows you to use popular photos to match snaps together that have the same subject, play with your own photos or sync up with friends for a fun photo-based game and a firm favourite among little ones or photography lovers!

CUTE IDEA: InstaMatch turns your photos into a game [PopGadgget]

Electric bikes are always economical and environmental friendly mode. These battery powered vehicles for one charge goes maximum eighty kilometers. Charging cost will obviously very less per kilometer. It is convenient for elderly people, ladies, college and school going students. The square design with it’s squared off sides, looks like a cool box. The high end luxury bike will definitely make an urbanized form of transportation with growing popularity.

Boxx Lets You Stay Green and Zip Around the Town [Trends Updates]

Users create a “contest” around a request on flightfox.com to get the best flight rates for the flight they intend to take. Human searchers compete to provide the best price and earn a contest fee announced upfront.

Of course, the savings must be substantial enough to award the fee!

Tipped by N Joglekar! Thanks!

uShip is a transport marketplace that helps people save money on deliveries of things that are too big, heavy or unsuitable for the post and pallet networks. Including things like car transport, motorcycle transport, boats, heavy haulage, all the way through to pets, horses, and fine and fragile antiques.

uShip is a reverse auction marketplace so transport companies and couriers compete for your business, which means that you get quotes from multiple courier and delivery companies. All you need to do is compare the quotes, and save money. Typically customers save between 50-80% on transport costs.