The Neon Luggage Tag
I hate not being able to identify my luggage at the airport. It always looks very much like everyone elses luggage after all. After always being annoyed at this, I have since discovered neon tags. I now use them for all of my luggage whenever I travel so I do not have that problem any more.
Neon tags really are a huge improvement on normal everyday tags. Normal tags just look, well normal! They do not stand out like neon does and do not really help you pick your own luggage out from other people’s luggage. These tags really do stand out and help you find your luggage even in airports where the lighting is not the best.
A bright identifying marker, and neon is definitely this, makes your luggage much less attractive to potential luggage thieves. Luggage theft occurs much more than you might think – other passengers are not necessarily honest and may take luggage other than their own on the slight chance that your luggage contains something valuable.
It is much harder to lose your luggage from theft when it stands out from everyone else’s like it does when it has a bright tag on it. These types of tags mean you can spot your luggage immediately when it appears at the luggage collection point. If your luggage is being carried off by someone else, you can see immediately by the neon tag, who has it and notify airport security, or even let the person know because they may have made an innocent mistake.
For extra security you can have a neon padlock tag. When it come to the neon luggage tag, the bigger the better! Also, if you want to personalize your luggage there are lots of different neon colors to chose from. Three well known manufacturers of this are:
- Magellan
- Easy Go
- Lewis N Clark
Magellan - they make the neon luggage tag in green and yellow, for example
Easy Go has orange and pink neon tags
Lewis N Clark - these guys even make transparent tags in bright neon colors and transparent ones are pretty cool
As you can see from the above, there are many reasons you would want to have something neon on your luggage and tags are a great way of doing this. It stops theft, makes identifying your own luggage very easy and just brightens things up generally when the place is swarming with black luggage.
Paul Nedery studies the design of simple items and aims to improve their design and 'think outside the box'.
