The mini-bars at the Little Nell in Aspen have something that might surprise the discriminating traveler: Oxia Personal Oxygen dispensers.

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The rooms are very large by hotel standards, even the smallest, with gas fireplaces, well-stocked mini-bars that are complimentary for snacks and non-alcoholic drinks, swank bathrooms with walk-in showers and soaking tubs and heated marble floors.

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She has also traveled to Abu Dhabi to report on the pre-planned sustainable city Masdar, tasted wine made by robots in California's Napa Valley, explored four space capsules, covered the privatization of space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and gone behind the bars of San Quentin Prison to see how the institution taught inmates to make mini satellites.

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Bars like the Monarch Tavern in Toronto are having table-hockey nights, where the mini-pucks fly.

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