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Back in April 2017, I first saw the Travelmate campaign and was really excited. I am a public speaker in the technology community and am always looking for cool new tech stuff. I thought this would be fantastic to have for conferences I would be speaking at. This is the first pic I saw of it and it did look awesome. Here was the video they had posted on Youtube. Yes it does look so cool! The original launch date was supposed to be June 2017 as shown in the order details. By this time, the product was really looking like it was going to be produced. The product was getting attention from vendors which also gave it legitimacy. You can look at the list of vendors that touted and mentioned the product from this page . When you see many companies and websites talking about this product, there is going to be some trust from potential customers. I have listed all of them in chronological order. Take note that some of the companies that wr

Articles, Videos, and Accolades

Here is a list of the articles and communications which were published about the Travelmate in chronological order. NOTE: I downloaded all of the videos in the event they decide to delete them. Nov 15, 2016, this was the first video they uploaded. Notice how the suitcase in such an early part of the campaign is running just as good as it does near the end.  Nov 17, 2016, they posted this video showing it being used as an all-purpose robot Nov 26, 2016, Travelmate posted the following video that supposedly was a full SIME presentation in Switzerland. I never once heard anything about the product in this video.  Nov 27, 2016, Technology Personalised wrote this article that Travelmate which gave it free advertising. Is that a Tile they wrote the product name on??? Nov 29, 2016, they got a response from the Israeli Department of Homeland Security on guidelines for autonomous suitcases.  Dec 1, 2016, the product was in an article in the Toronto Star .  Dec