Travel tip - take a picture of your luggage

Travel tip: take a picture of your luggage.

You could do this either right when you are checking in, so you have the photo readily available on your phone (that's what I do), or if you are more sophisticated you could create a contact in your address book called "My Luggage" and attach the photo as the contact's photo ID.

Then, if your luggage gets lost, it is a lot easier to fill out the lost luggage form, on which they ask you to describe the luggage.

From Innovation Bootcamp post Nov 1 2011