The world's first smart, connected carry-on luggage is coming from an IndieGoGo venture. It is called Bluesmart.

If you don't like checking your carry-on bag on flights, this carry-on is made for you. Bluesmart has a built-in digital scale so you can find out its weight and whether it's approved by the airline. Just pull the handle and the app will tell you if you are ok to go.

You can lock the suitcase from your smartphone, and it will automatically lock itself when separated from you. You can also share access with people you trust. The Bluesmart Travel Sentry® Approved Lock will be accepted by the TSA, according to the company's website. Speaking of TSA, Bluesmart contains a readily accessible compartment to hold electronics that must be checked by TSA.

If you're the one who can't ever seem to find a convenient place to charge your phone while at the airport or on the road, Bluesmart has you covered. It is included with a super-powerful battery charger that can charge two devices at the same time. So, whether it is your smartphone, tablet or ebook reader, your devices can stay charged. The suitcase battery will enable you to recharge your smartphone six times over.

The amenities don't stop there. Bluesmart can track the geolocation of your suitcase anywhere in the world from your app or the company's website. Concerned someone might move your luggage while you're getting coffee? You can set a distance alert to get real-time reports to locate your Bluesmart with a proximity heat map. You can also get real-time reports with all the data from your trips, including miles traveled, airports visited and more.

So, what's the price for a Bluesmart? The Super Early Adopter price of $195.00 is sold out. However, there is still time to get in at the Early Adopter price of $215.00 USD plus $20 shipping and handling within the U.S., $40 for shipping internationally.

If you're in a hurry to start testing it out, cool your jets; the estimated ship date for Bluesmart is August 2015.

Media mogul and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey, was photographed with girls from her South African school walking with their Omron pedometers.

The event at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa was a photo opp for the Omron fittest school challenge in South Africa. The Omron fittest school challenge is designed to help students and staff keep fit by tracking their steps with the use of the Omron pedometer. The goal is to reach 10,000 steps a day. 

Kia has just signed Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star LeBron James to a multi-year contract as the brand's 'luxury ambassador.' Specifically, James will represent the K900, Kia's flagship sedan.

As luxury ambassador, James will star in commercials and make exclusive appearances for the car. You can see James, looking part professional fencer and part sea captain, representing the Kia in the Fit For A King advertising campaign previewed above. The accompanying TV spot will debut later this month as a part of the 2014-2015 basketball season.

"I was a Kia K900 driver and fan before we decided to become partners, so I'm really excited to be Kia's first-ever luxury ambassador," said James.

Seriously!?

"This partnership is about the power of great style and performance," James continued.

"Kia and the K900 are out to challenge conventional wisdom and show people how to think differently, and I can relate to that. For me, a partnership has to be authentic and real to who I am, and that's what makes this one so special."

The Kia K900 may be a very luxurious automobile, but it is hard to believe that it would be a Lebron James ride.

Kia K900 is positioned to go head-to-head with companies like Mercedes and Lexus.

From the car's February debut through September of this year, Kia has sold 1,106 units, with sales slowly declining since the April peak.

Time will tell if LeBron James will have an impact on spurring sales of the Kia K900 upward.

Another entertainment pioneer has departed.

Ike Jones, a pioneering African American filmmaker who was born Isaac Lolette Jones on December 23, 1929, in Santa Monica, died on October 11 at an assisted living facility, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Jones had a stroke several months ago and also suffered from congestive heart failure, said his friend Ann Stone. A series of bad investments pushed Jones from a house in Malibu to a rented room where he lived prior to his stroke.

A Los Angeles native and reportedly raised by his stepfather a pig farmer, Jones played high school football for Santa Monica High School and then UCLA. He turned down a draft offer to play for the Green Bay Packers because football was just a means to an end. Jones was real clear; he used football to put himself through college to study film. In so doing, Jones became the first African American to graduate from UCLA's prestigious film school.

Jones was determined to take Hollywood by storm. A 1952 article in Jet magazine said, "Handsome, personable, talented Isaac (Ike) Jones is determined to become the first Negro to crack the Hollywood motion picture industry from the production or executive ends."

He went to work for production companies that oversaw projects for Harry Belafonte and Burt Lancaster, and he headed Nat King Cole's Kell-Cole Productions that produced the singer's highly successful live shows. For the rest of his life, Jones kept a photo of himself and Cole at the White House with President Johnson.

In 1966 Jones was one of the producers of the film A Man Called Adam. Sammy Davis Jr. headed a cast that included Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, and Louis Armstrong. Jones said on several occasions that the movie marked the first time a black person produced an A-list picture.

Secretly married to Swedish-born actress Inger Stevens, the pair felt the need to keep the marriage secret to protect their careers. In 1970, Stevens died of an overdose in what was ruled a suicide.

Jones' last major producing credit was on the 1978 TV miniseries "A Woman Called Moses" (with Cicely Tyson as Harriet Tubman). However, Jones was an eternal optimist because even into his 80s, he reportedly was developing projects in hopes of a comeback.

Rest in peace, Ike Jones, rest in peace.