You know when someone gets up and you take their seat and it's still warm? And it's kind of gross? Or uncomfortably intimate or something? Yeah, I'm worried about that times a million with these sleeping pods. Read More >>

Airports are a weird contradiction; labyrinthine roadways and arteries between terminals, surrounded by an expanse of seemingly limitless straightaways. Put both together and you get wonderfully calculated mayhem, and a few killer photos. Read More >>

Flying can be a white-knuckle affair for even the heartiest of travellers. But it turns out what you should really fear are airports; almost 60 per cent of all aircraft incidents happen there during taxiing, take-off, approach or landing. Here are runway horrorshows from around the globe that may make you rethink your next trip. Read More >>

The Transportation Security Administration has announced that it will remove the controversial "naked image" body scanners from US airports because developers can't write software to make the images less revealing. Read More >>

Scarecrows are a tried and true piece of human technology, but nowadays birds harass more than just crops; they also bother planes. That's why South Korea has developed a new kind of overkill scarecrow for airports: an unmanned tank with laser and acoustic weapons. Read More >>

If you ever happen to be flying domestically across the United States, have a scan of your boarding pass barcode with your smartphone, as it could let you know if you have to go through any pre-boarding checks, which could potentially enable any traveller to bring unauthorised items on board. Read More >>

Two passengers coming into the country from Egypt were arrested at Heathrow last night, as counter terrorism police held them under suspicion of doing much worse things than ogling the flight crew. Read More >>

Hitachi, a company we usually associate with cheap TVs from Argos, has come up with a new kind of airport boarding gate, which can detect explosives in seconds without any embarrassing naked scanning or overly invasive finger work from border police. Read More >>

For the most part, traditional conveyor-based baggage-delivery systems work just fine, but they are pretty slow, which can throttle your throughput. That's suddenly not a problem if you treat your bags to a kart-based roller coaster that reaches speeds up to 22mph (600 meters per second). Airplanes won't be the only things that are flying, figuratively anyway. Read More >>

Security footage broadcast by US network ABC News shows exactly what you might expect to happen to unattended laptops and iPads left lying about in airports -- they get bagsied by employees and taken home. Perk of the job, right? Read More >>

If you've travelled to the US in the past few years, you would've encountered the Transportation Security Administration in airports. The TSA published a 2012 year to date report to reveal what the apocalypse year has brought through airport security and it's a doozy of bizarre weapons. Things like guns and bombs aren't enough anymore, the TSA finds grenade launchers, venomous snakes, gassed up chainsaws and more. Read More >>

Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 50 metres away as soon as you step in the country. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes, to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body — agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. Read More >>

Nope, it's not a museum. The mesmerising video above is of "Kinetic Rain," an installation in Terminal 1 of Singapore's Changi Airport. Read More >>

The ASDE-3/AMASS radar system that spotted an errant Jeep on Philadelphia International's runways has one fatal flaw — it thinks raindrops are incoming jets and goes nuts during downpours. The ASDE Model X, however, monitors runways rain or shine. Read More >>

Whether sitting atop the Hudson or drifting just above a skyscraper, these conceptual floating airports put landing strips where they're needed most: in the middle of bustling metropoleis. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the best. Read More >>