They finally got an e-book reader right!
Before Spot Cool Stuff headed for a month-long stay with the family on the coast we picked up a the new version of Amazon's Kindle electronic reading device. We are big readers. Instead of packing a small library of bulky novels (and one travel guidebook) we loaded our ...
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Like spending a night in a gallery of art
Your average high design hotel starts out as sterile property before having an artistic aspect added to it. Berlin's Arte Luise Kunsthotel began as an artistic compound before having a hotel added it.
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A travel-worthy solar charger that lives up to the hype
We at Spot Cool Stuff see our fair share of gadgets that are more hype than, you know, useful. The Solio Universal Hybrid Charger is not one of those.
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A guide to the perfect nexus of vacation time and place
We are often surprised how much effort travelers put into deciding where to go and so little into deciding when. The weather at a certain time of year obviously effects the travel experience but so do a lot of other timing factors -- when that cool local festival ...
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Copenhagen Cool
It is amazing what a little personal attention can do. The folks at the Fox Hotel took an ordinary property, albeit an ordinary property well located in central Copenhagen, and set about making each of their 61 rooms artistic and individual. The result is a hotel with a ...
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A hot spot in a former boiler room
LA's first power plant is one of its latest hot spots. When The Edison Bar moved into a 1910 building near Harlem Place Alley in downtown L.A. it left much of the infrastructure there intact, including the original boiler, power turbines and much of the piping. Around that ...
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