Rideable Luggage

Do you remember those shiny silver metal suitcases?  They were heavy and they didn’t have wheels back then.  When I was 11 years old, I traveled all over Japan and had to carry my suitcase up and down stairs and down long streets.  It really put a damper on traveling. 

Then in 1970, Bernard Sadow invented the wheeled luggage and revolutionized travel.   Except for going up and down stairs, we never had to carry our suitcases anymore.  Rolling my big heavy suitcases was easy to do and it made going from one end of an international airport to the other a breeze.

And now, the Modobag has created a rideable suitcase.  Yup!  I guess rolling a suitcase was getting hard to do, so now we can actually sit on our motorized luggage and get to our destination 3 times faster than walking.  Because it’s a carry-on size, you can take it on the plane with you so you never have to be without it.  And it also has 2 USB ports to charge your phone and laptops, and the motor holds a charge for up to 6 hours.  The manufacturer claims that you only lose 15% of packing space because of the motor. Wow. 

I wonder if the airports will have to paint lanes in the terminals and install traffic lights.  They’ll probably also need to have slow lanes for the non-rideable suitcases.  Hmm.

I have to admit I’m curious and want to check out the rideable luggage!

[Source]