Hop Suitcase Will Follow You Around The Airport Hands-Free (VIDEO)

WATCH: 'Future Suitcase' Will Follow You Around The Airport Hands-Free

Remember when suitcases were replaced, seemingly overnight, by those much-more convenient pulley-wheelie bags?

Get ready for it to happen again - only this time your luggage is going wireless.

The Hop suitcase is a new type of baggage which will follow you around an airport without you having to pull it at all.

The device is named after 'bellhops', a word used to describe those people who used to pull your bags around hotels (until they were made redundant by this bag, of course).

The makers say on their website:

"The suitcase contains three receivers that are able to receive, identify and triangulate different signals coming from the user's cell phone. A microcontroller interprets these signals calculating the phone's position regarding to the suitcase. The same microcontroller operates a caterpillar system based on compressed air, which follows the user at a constant distance."

They add that if the signal is lost the bag will ock itself, and might be able to speed up the entire process of travelling through an airport.

Take a look at the video, above.

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