The Kisha umbrella is a high-tech take on the traditional brolly that predicts rain and let’s you know if you are about to leave it on the bus. The umbrella is standard issue for any trip – a design so beautiful in its simplicity that has remained largely unchanged for thousands of years. But with over 30m umbrellas sold each year…
Amid concerns that the silence of electric cars makes them a danger to pedestrians, a risk compounded at night, Nissan has used a paint created for phosphorescent cycle paths, to produce a glow-in-the-dark Leaf electric car. The ethical choice The ETA was established in 1990 as an ethical provider of green, reliable travel services. Over 30 years on, we continue to…
Retro-fit electric bicycle wheels promise twice the practicality and half the price of a conventional e-bike. Retro-fit electric bicycle wheels There is much talk about battery-powered cars, but electric bicycles are already being bought around the world in their hundreds of thousands. And while it’s easy for cyclists to scoff at electric bicycles as expensive and superfluous, they make sense for…
Start-up Ventum has a single remit; to build triathlon bicycles for people who like to go fast. Co-founders Diaa Nour and Jimmy Seear claim their 2015 bikes are lighter, faster and more technologically advanced than the competition. Triathlon bicycles According to Seear: “We don’t start with an existing bike and ask ‘What can we add to sell more bikes?’. Instead,…
Crumple zones, anti-lock brakes and, before them, seatbelts have dramatically improved safety for car drivers, but they have also allowed motorists to subtly abdicate their duty of care to themselves and others. The point is, now we have better cars, we need to be better drivers. The Institute of Advanced Motorists looked at data on 700,000 road traffic collisions and…
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