News Archives - November 2011

Victoria Pendleton effect boosts women’s cycling

An amateur cycling club with an ethos based as much on encouraging participation by women as performing well in races reports a huge increase in the sport driven by the success of Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton.

Wireless charging for electric cars and bicycles

Mayor Boris Johnson has often referred to his hopes of London becoming the ‘electric car capital of Europe’ and now plans are underway for a network of wireless charging points for electric cars and bicycles in London.

Police use nets to catch speeding motorcyclists

Traffic police in Thanh Hoa city, Vietnam, have resorted to a novel, if extreme, way of tackling speeding motorcyclists, according to “reports”:http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-bizarre/and-you-thought-speed-cameras-were-bad/19570.html

The world’s most elegant bicycle wheels

People may have been building simple devices to create the image of a moving picture for over 2,000 years, but even today the effect of placing simple paper shapes on a moving wheel is no less magical.

Toyota car is a virtual garden for the urban jungle

Most people know that cars and lorries are responsible for exhaust gases, particulates, noise pollution and road danger, but how many of us consider the damage to the visual environment caused by the endless rows of parked vehicles that line our streets? The latest concept design from Toyota is the car giant’s own take on the problem.