Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions.
Before a recent trip to Europe I downloaded 10 of the apps to my iPhone — including ones from major sites like Booking.com and Kayak, as well as Europe-only apps like JustBook, Hot Hotels and Blink, and used them to book eight hotel stays just hours before check-in.
(Or indeed other last-minute hotel booking apps such as Groupon-owned Blink, or Hot Hotels).
In a statement issued to TechCrunch, Conor O´Connor, Hot Hotels CEO, said: "Blink and Groupon is just one of a number of consolidations lately in the travel space.
I was on my third in a row and I was tired – the sort of tired where your eyes feel hot and sunken, and blinking takes three to four seconds, and you never knew a reflex could be so torturous.
"The political heat got a little bit too hot, and the IRS blinked, rather than stick to its position, which I think was right".
Fueled by a profound lack of sleep, too much airport coffee, and the bubbling up of red-hot rage, I blinked a couple of times in disbelief and I may have yelled back at the TV, "Oh, now you've done it!
It has changed from dark rainy days to hot sunny ones in the blink of an eye.
As a red-eyed dealer from Caesar's Palace, blinking in the hot sun at McCarran International, put it: "It's really a great town..
Blink.' 'Are you hot?' Because he couldn't speak, so we'd have that going on.
