Now available for busy meeting planners who just can’t stop working no matter where they are: The Bathroom Super Media system. From the site:

Keuco visiPad is a splash protected multimedia system for the bathroom that enables all media functions through one easily navigable screen. Just finger-tap on the touchscreen or use the remote, and you can surf Internet while bathing or listen to the radio, talk on the phone, write SMS messages, read the newspaper, listen DVD, CD … or just have it display a large digital clock, all in the convenience of your bathroom.

And I thought shower radios were still the latest in bathroom technology.

For more just-for-fun goodness, check out Izzy belly dancing to “Dueling Banjos” on YouTube. (Link courtesy of Wired, which has a couple of other banjo-related vids as well. But Izzy just blew me away). I don’t know if she does event gigs or not, but this could work for the right crowd.

According to this article in the New York Times, some companies are being a little nicer to their frequent fliers, letting them upgrade to business class, stay in nicer hotels, or even giving them time off to compensate for weekend travel.

For association meetings, this could be good news and bad news. While those who get airline and hotel perks probably will be more likely to come to an event, and be a little happier to be there, they also could be opting out of staying at your headquarters hotel if their company will pay for an upgrade. Just a thought.

At the ChangeThis site, that is. Association innovatation champion Jeff De Cagna has a manifesto on innovation up for vote. If it gets enough votes, the full manifesto will become available to the world, and hopefully, some will take its message to heart. So go ahead and vote.