News Archives - June 2014

City Cab electric ride-on suitcase

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…

Nimbus: hybrid electric successor to the VW Kombi

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…

Clug: World’s most simple bicycle storage fix

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…

Police target bicycle cable locks

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…

Hexo+ autopilot drone captures cycling heroics

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…