With the distance between airport entrance and departure gate an ever-lengthening walk, the ride-on electric suitcase was an invention waiting to happen. And with the trek between the entrance to Beijing Airport Terminal 3 and its furthest departure gate a staggering 2 miles, China was bound to be its birthplace. Chinese inventor He Liang-Ky believes his 20 km/h City Cab…
The makers of electric cars have done all they can to make their battery powered vehicles indistinguishable from those fuelled by petrol or diesel – the Nissan Leaf is every inch the conventional city car – but what if the road to success lies in creating cars that dare to be different. Cars such as Nimbus. Nimbus is a hybrid…
Like all the best ideas, Clug is fiendishly simple – a tiny wall-mounted clip that keeps your bike upright to protect walls from scuff marks. Depending on how high up a wall it is fixed, a Clug can hold a bike on one or two wheels. The design company responsible for the Clug, Vancouver-based Hurdler Studios, believes that giving people more…
Bicycles secured with flimsy cable locks are being tagged as unsafe by police in America. The yellow tags yellow read: “The Police Department stole your bike” “Cable locks just aren’t safe,” Commander Jason Mollendor of Auraria Police, Denver, told metnews.org. “It takes a thief no time to get through them with wire cutters.” Cyclists can buy a good quality lock…
Aerial footage might once have been the preserve of big-budget films, but a new design of inexpensive camera drone promises to make cycling stars of us all. The fully autonomous £330 Hexo+ uses a gimbal to carry a GoPro camera to capture footage. The flying camera platform works in conjunction with a smart phone to automatically follow your movements at…