What I found was pretty standard: flight schedules, a place to view my reservations, a terminal map for a few of AA’s hub airports and online check in. You can even monitor your place on the standby list. What I didn’t expect were mobile boarding passes.

Maybe this is no big deal, but I’m not all that tech savvy (shocking I know) so I thought this was pretty cool stuff. The ability to check in online and print boarding passes from home has been around for awhile, but the AA app allowed me to create a mobile boarding pass on my handy-dandy iPhone which I just showed to the TSA folks and the gate agent. The app actually creates a scannable boarding pass right on my screen. Nothing to print, nothing to keep up with (other than my phone) no paper, no fuss.

Maybe every flier at the airport is already doing this and I’m just late to the party, but I’m glad I finally arrived.

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The list printed in today’s Edmond Sun.

TravelBlur.com and The Edmond Sun are teaming up to bring you ”Gifts and Gadgets,” a four-part series highlighting travel toys and tools. In today’s article we cover travel journals, maps, binoculars and multi-tools.

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This week, we help your traveler pack light and pack right with luggage suggestions and packing aid ideas.

Read the full article at The Edmond Sun and check back next week for part three.

In today’s installment, we cover camera accessories like Case Logic bags, Joby Gorillapod tripods and power sources from Digipower and Lenmar. We also suggest a camera class to help your travel buddy take better photos.

Find the full article at The Edmond Sun and check back next Saturday for our second installment.