{"id":127545,"date":"2015-08-19T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T20:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/happy-luggage-at-a-happy-airport.html"},"modified":"2015-08-25T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:21:50","slug":"happy-luggage-at-a-happy-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/happy-luggage-at-a-happy-airport.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Luggage at a Happy Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I strongly suspect Schiphol&#39;s baggage handling is a lot more sophisticated than a lot of airports around the world, including the US. This looks like the kind of automation that Denver was striving for (and spent bazillions of dollars not getting) when DIA was built.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#39;s darned fascinating, sort of a cross between the <i>Monsters, Inc.<\/i> hall-of-closet-doors and a First Person Shooter. Only with luggage and fewer monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/08\/18\/suitcase-cam-shows-what-its-like-to-be-luggage-at-the-airport'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bEsUzvrKCvMF38sbswLm00jnQ1X_5yfawamyPMzt_cZpTxgwaUKXPRVIQ2yiUA5b5jOrcZTrVQ1v2gCpqnRmPqaU0YVMI-eho7P0OaTFYqKPygKw=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2015\/08\/18\/suitcase-cam-shows-what-its-like-to-be-luggage-at-the-airport'>Suitcase Cam Shows What It&#8217;s Like To Be Luggage At The Airport<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHave you ever ever wondered what it&#8217;s like for your checked luggage at the airport? Where does it go, what does it see, who touches it &#8212; does it make suitcase friends along the way? While many of &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/FS96c6aDLBN'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I strongly suspect Schiphol&#39;s baggage handling is a lot more sophisticated than a lot of airports around the world, including the US. This looks like the kind of automation that Denver was striving for (and spent bazillions of dollars not getting) when DIA was built. Still, it&#39;s darned fascinating, sort of a cross between the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/happy-luggage-at-a-happy-airport.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Luggage at a Happy Airport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-traveling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/airline-luggage-delivered-to-your-door.html","url_meta":{"origin":127545,"position":0},"title":"Airline luggage delivered to your door","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I can imagine cases where this would be of value. 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