Travel Tech Tested: Surprising Wins and Fails
Update: 2025-08-14
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TEC309: From apps that outpace airline updates to gadgets that save your sanity, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Joseph Sund review the tech that worked—and failed—on a 12-day Italy trip, plus debates on AI recreating the dead and killing virtual job interviews.
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Links for this episode:
* TEC305: The Ultimate Travel Tech Guide: Apps, Power, and Security for Stress-Free Trips
* Flighty
* Rome Pilgrim
* Weather on the Way
* Flightaware
* Planefinder
* MyTSA
* Citymapper
* Lyft
* DayOne
* Pedometer++
* Plugbug with FindMy Universal
* Ceptics Travel Power Strip
* Ceptics Italy, Europe Travel Adapter Plug Set – 2 Pack
* JISULIFE Handheld Mini Fan
* Gewanolla Portable Waist Fan
* Holafly
* AOL is finally shutting down dial-up | The Verge
* Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says • The Register
* TEC118: Tech Memento Mori
* Parents of Parkland shooting victim use AI to “bring him back”
* Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
* AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview
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