But getting from here to there is often a journey fraught with complications and stress. Timetables, security lines, and long endless stretches of highway punctuated by "Are we there yet?" can be the lowlight of any trip.

New technology and new implementations of familiar tech is making travel less stressful and helping to remind us that sometimes the journey is just as important as the destination.

If any mode of travel has more dread associated with it than air travel, one would be hard pressed to find it -- camel riding in the Sahara, perhaps? Crowded terminals, lost luggage, and security lines are all part and parcel of traveling by air, once a luxury and now a royal pain. But already we are seeing ways that technology can help alleviate that pain and bring a little more calm to the aviation storm.