A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World | The Atlantic Cities If you use a bike-share system, you likely rely on an app that gives you a real-time distribution of the bikes and empty docks in your area. Oliver O’Brien, a researcher with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London, has built a map that does this same thing, simultaneously, for bike-shares all over the world.

A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World | The Atlantic Cities

If you use a bike-share system, you likely rely on an app that gives you a real-time distribution of the bikes and empty docks in your area. Oliver O’Brien, a researcher with the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London, has built a map that does this same thing, simultaneously, for bike-shares all over the world.

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Move Over, Hoverboards: This Bike Lets You Fly | Mashable A new mode of personal transportation has beat hoverboards to the market: the flying bicycle. Czech companies Duratec, Technodat and Evektor have created a prototype of a flying electric bicycle. Unlike E.T.’s run-of-the-mill two-wheeler, however, this one looks more like a snow bike.

Move Over, Hoverboards: This Bike Lets You Fly | Mashable

A new mode of personal transportation has beat hoverboards to the market: the flying bicycle.

Czech companies Duratec, Technodat and Evektor have created a prototype of a flying electric bicycle. Unlike E.T.’s run-of-the-mill two-wheeler, however, this one looks more like a snow bike.

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thisbigcity: 2013: The Year of Bike Share NPR trumpets that it’s finally “a good time to be a cyclist in America.” Bike share programs are picking up pace across North America, with more than 15 major US cities launching in 2013. Getting to a critical mass of programs is essential—each city will feature unique implementation and tweaks to the model; we’re in the midst of a grand experiment, and tracking the progress of all these programs across the country will be essential.  It’s an exciting time to be a fan of bike share. I’ll take two wheels any day of the week. It’s all about that gas mileage. 

thisbigcity:

2013: The Year of Bike Share

NPR trumpets that it’s finally “a good time to be a cyclist in America.” Bike share programs are picking up pace across North America, with more than 15 major US cities launching in 2013. Getting to a critical mass of programs is essential—each city will feature unique implementation and tweaks to the model; we’re in the midst of a grand experiment, and tracking the progress of all these programs across the country will be essential. 

It’s an exciting time to be a fan of bike share. I’ll take two wheels any day of the week. It’s all about that gas mileage. 

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Points: Smart Robotic Street Sign Rotates towards Direction of Content

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Points by futuristic product development studio Breakfast is a new kind of street sign that dynamically rotates towards the direction of the real-time content it is showing.

The directional street sign consists of 3 separate arms pointing in different directions, each containing a LED display that shows specific text or graphics about a nearby destination. Depending on the actual location of the content it displays, each arm is able to rotate endlessly around 360° degrees. The content varies depending on what passers-by select via a list of buttons, ranging from public transport arrival times nearby to the content and actual location of Twitter messages.

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Utah Develops Wireless Charging for Buses | ThisBigCity Breakthroughs in inductive power transfer are promising to transform the prospects for electric buses. In July 2011, the Utah State University (USU) Research Foundation demonstrated a 90% electrical transfer efficiency of 5kW over an air gap of 10 inches. The breakthrough made inductive power transfer viable for buses, potentially minimising pollution in urban centres and saving costs.

Utah Develops Wireless Charging for Buses | ThisBigCity

Breakthroughs in inductive power transfer are promising to transform the prospects for electric buses. In July 2011, the Utah State University (USU) Research Foundation demonstrated a 90% electrical transfer efficiency of 5kW over an air gap of 10 inches. The breakthrough made inductive power transfer viable for buses, potentially minimising pollution in urban centres and saving costs.

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The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation | The Atlantic Cities It’s obvious from human history that people have long found unique value in living and working in cities, even if for reasons they couldn’t quite articulate. Put people together, and opportunities and ideas and wealth seem to grow at a more powerful rate than a simple sum of all our numbers. This has been intuitively true for centuries of city-dwellers. “What people didn’t know,” says MIT researcher Wei Pan, “is why.”

The Real Reason Cities Are Centers of Innovation | The Atlantic Cities

It’s obvious from human history that people have long found unique value in living and working in cities, even if for reasons they couldn’t quite articulate. Put people together, and opportunities and ideas and wealth seem to grow at a more powerful rate than a simple sum of all our numbers. This has been intuitively true for centuries of city-dwellers.

“What people didn’t know,” says MIT researcher Wei Pan, “is why.”

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