Ten travel-related projects on Kickstarter worth looking at

Not all the innovation in travel is happening on the startup and tech side, in fact, not even close. The delta between travel tech and actual future of travel is huge, as we document it here every day on Skift. One of the repositories of innovation these days that we watch closely is Kickstarter, much like a lot of other future watchers are. And on it is a fair amount of projects that may end up being in the larger travel sector, whether they are categorized as such or not. Below are 10 projects that caught our eye, some of which are in larger tech or design or media space that end up being useful in travel, while some are directly in travel. This is in the mobile charging category, but very unique: using a stirling engine powered solely by heat disparities, such as a hot or cold drink, a candle, ice, etc to provide enough power to fully charge your cell phone battery. Sounds too good to be true, but the technology and the engine apparently has been around since 1800s, but the lab behind this new product is says that using modern materials and modern electronics, they were able to