Sesame Street helps kick off summer travel season

by Meg Nesterov on

Does Cookie Monster have to buy two seats? Does Elmo travel carry-on only? You can ask them yourself this week as several Sesame Street characters appear at US airports this week to kick off summer travel with Delta Airlines.

Today, Elmo and Cookie Monster will be making gate announcements and welcoming travelers to Minneapolis-St Paul Airport, before meeting up with Grover at La Guardia on Tuesday. Elmo and Grover will wrap up the tour on Thursday at Atlanta‘s international airport.

Photo courtesy Flickr user Casey Fleser.

Want to travel more with Sesame Street? Check out Lonely Planet editor Robert Reid’s trip in the video below.

The Tiny, Waterproof, Head-Mounted Elmo SUV-CAM: A Videocamera For Adventurers

by Willy Volk on

I’ve always wished there was a convenient way for me to record the skull-shaking excitement of crashing through Class V rapids. Usually, I tie a waterproof disposable camera to my life jacket and shoot with one hand as I paddle through the roiling rapids, but the drama always seems to be missing from the resulting stills. However, if I grabbed an Elmo SUV-Cam, whole worlds would open.

With its lipstick-sized camera body, the tiny Elmo SUV-Cam is a compact portable video recorder with helmet-mounting capabilities. Offering one-push button recording and frame-by-frame playback, the slick unit is perfect for skydiving, base jumping, or bike riding. Moreover, since the unit is waterproof, you can even use it to record up to 2GB of your white water rafting adventures. Finally!

Granted, you’re not going to be filming any high-def Zambezi action with little Elmo, but the capabilities of this pint-sized camera are pretty impressive. Unfortunately, its price is as staggering as its coolness factor: expect to pay a little over $1000 for yours.