The Total Pillow is a pillow you can use anywhere – at home, in the office or on the go. In fact, it’s more than one pillow… it’s five in one!  Use as a neck or head rest; on a chair or the floor; or for lumbar support.  It is  filled with mouldable and supportive tension-easing microbeads meaning it can be shaped in several ways – and it retains its shape too.You can get comfortable wherever you are with the Total Pillow – in the car, watching TV or at work.

Available from www.gizoo.co.uk  Price £9.95

Blow Up Hall, Poland 

Blow Up Hall is a hotel dubbed as an interactive work of art which offers a combination of 5 star luxury and hi-tech. The guests not only experience art but also participate in it’s creation. Renowned artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has created an intriguing video installation so from the moment you step inside you’re a performer in the video being played in the lobby! Every guest is supplied with an iPhone which you use to gain access to your room – so no keys or door numbers.

For more details… www.blowuphall5050.com

Mama Shelter, Paris

Voted best business hotel in europe by CNBC, this Philippe Starck-designed boutique hotel used to be a parking garage. Mama Shelter has a 24-inch iMac in each one of its 172 rooms. The iMac acts as your entertainment centre, there’s free Wi-Fi as well as free in room movies on demand. It also has a fleet of rentable electronic scooters if you fancy going out and about.

For more details… www.mamshelter.com

Pod Hotel, NYC

New York’s Pod Hotel is sure to satisfy the tech-hungry budget traveler with its high style and high tech, hip accomodation. This hotel has an in-house Pod Community Blog, open to those with reservations so guests and prospective guests can interact, ask questions and exchange information.  Each pod comes with free wifi, mp3 player docking stations and LCD TV.

For more details… www.thepodhotel.com

We’re all busy busy busy running around town in our Loubouts’ so check out these handy iPhone apps to make our hectic lives run a bit more smoothly…

Awesome Note (+To Do)

Combine notes and todos in one handy app. Simply jot down your ideas, thoughts and memos and create daily diary, to do lists, travel diary, shopping list, it just goes on and on. You can even customize its look with themes, different folder icons, colours and fonts – after all a girls gotta have lists!

Business Card Reader - SHAPE Services

Business Card Reader takes a business card picture with your iphone camera and ‘reads’ it using text recognition technology. It then enters the contact information into appropriate fields on your iPhone address book. It saves time and the hassle of entering the details manually which can be SO dull! Perfect for networking events.

Tripdeck Travel Itinerary Manager

Manage your hotel reservations, car hire, flights, meetings and more with easy to read Trip Decks for each itinerary. You can also view your entire itinerary on a gorgeous map as well as editing and sharing on the go.

Whether you’re backpacking in Bali or camel trekking across the Sahara, this new Postcards app captures your image on iPhone and android smartphones, sending it to the folks back home by conventional post, yes a real, proper post card!  How cool is that?! And best of all this brand new picture postcard service is provided as a free download by eCards Media (www.ecards.co.uk/postcards). 

We all know what it’s like trying to choose the best of a bad bunch of cheesy post cards, well not anymore, no stamps or searching for a postbox either. Your personal holiday snaps are transformed into traditional picture postcards and mailed home at the touch of a button. This is already one of the Apple website’s top 30 apps in their ‘free stuff’ travel section

How does it work?

The free ‘Postcards’ download lets users take a photo or upload from their library and input text to family and friends. It costs 99p to send second class and £1.49 to send first class postcards anywhere in the world, processed via PayPal.

The worldwide postcards are sent to a printing firm in deepest, darkest Dorset via file transfer protocol (FTP) at 4pm every day. They are then run off using state-of-the-art Xerox printers and collected for dispatch by Royal Mail at 5.15pm the same day.

So whether you’re on top of a rollercoaster, celebrity spotting in restaurants or sending out pictures of your newborn baby, the Postcard app is a great way to share news with mates.

It’s a great little app and I’m deff going to try it out on my summer hols!! Will somebody send me one please?