Posted June 21st, 2007
Object Gallery is currently showing The 2007 national student New Design Exhibition, and in the group of great designs on show is something neat for urban cyclists interested in seeing what a new generation of folding bikes might look like.
In the exhibition is the Everglide folding bike created by designer Frag Woodall. The Everglide […]
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Posted April 11th, 2007
Here’s some terrific bicycle related stuff from the 2007 Dyson Australian Design Awards.
Everglide is an integrated solution for short distance travel and personal effects management. The product operates as an infill mode of transport that seamlessly assimilates with other forms of public transport such as buses and trains, thereby promoting sustainable mobility habits. Everglide […]
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Posted December 17th, 2006
Via Fresh Creation.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles
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Posted August 16th, 2006
I’ve never known how to contextualise the Segway personal transporter or where to place it in the transport mix, certainly it’s a groovy thing and the technologies that enable it are very cool, but apart from it being useful for mobility challenged coppers with a doughnut dependency, where can they go with this? I’m still […]
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Posted August 11th, 2006
An interesting way to secure your mountain bike, The Cool Hunter has the story on this work in progress.
Technorati Tags: cycling, bicycles, locks, security, inlock
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Posted January 22nd, 2006
I love technology, and if I was smart enough I’d be a total geek, but sometimes technology is not the solution to everything.
Cars saving pedestrians’ lives?
The project, which officially ended in August, set out to develop an innovative pre-impact sensing platform that operates three different technologies of sensors simultaneously, and then fuses their data to […]
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Posted January 20th, 2006
My former hometown of Toronto turned into Velo City.
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Posted January 16th, 2006
Smartmobs files it under technologies of co-operation, and the CS Monitor describes it as a future where we will turn our living rooms into the Tour de France and physically compete against one another in a virtual world.
Americans own more than 50 million treadmills, Stairmasters, stationary bikes, and other home gym equipment. Let’s be honest: […]
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Posted January 8th, 2006
Self steering bicycle. Via We Make Money Not Art.
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Posted January 6th, 2006
I’ve posted briefly on the coming drought of carbon composites and it’s effect on the bicycle industry, today in Wired Magazine Bruce Stirling gives us an entertaining look at the future generation of carbon and it’s possibilities. Say hello to the buckytube.
This impervious stuff is a variant on the buckyball, a soccer ball-shaped arrangement of […]
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