The Trip is a crazy hybrid rolling-suitcase which manages to be both practical and weird in equal measure. It carries your luggage, of course, and offers a very useful "kangaroo" pocket on the front, a flap which zips open to allow fast access to a laptop, books, cellphone or anything else you squeeze in.
It also turns int a chair: The wheels hinge back on the end of stalks and the hard, padded top-section slides forward to make a bigger area for your butt. Think of R2D2 leaning back into his roll-along position and you've got the idea.
Then it gets odd. The more expensive of the two trips has a battery and speakers. This is so you can listen to music in your hotel room or take the suitcase along on a picnic. I'm serious. Check this out, from the email pitch:
That charging part is useful, but why would you want to further shrink the space inside a rolling case with batteries and speakers? I have no love for wheelie-cases, preferring a lighter, more capacious backpack, so perhaps I am biased, but even for the lazy traveler it seems foolish to shrink you load-bay like this.
If you do fancy a case/seat/speaker, and don't mind plugging your travel-bag into a USB port once in a while, then you can have the Trip Sound for €650 ($850), or opt for the quieter Trip for €595 ($780). Oh, and hit "mute" before you go to the site. It has, unforgivably, auto-playing music.
Trip product page [Travelteq. Thanks, Titia!]
