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November, 11th 2011 10:35:41 / by Felicitas Ruscher
About 500 years after Da Vinci’s first drafts his dream came true: Men are able to fly – if wearing wingsuits. Special jumpsuits developed in the 1990s make people glide through the air. Therefore the wingsuit is also called birdman suit. The suit also has a parachute to ensure a save landing. Check out this impressive video by Jeb Corliss!
Soucre: www.youtube.com
November, 8th 2011 10:05:11 / by Katrin Scheikl
Simple yet brilliant: If your are in a hurry, ring a bicycle bell. People seem to be trained on making way if they hear this sound. We’re impressed that it even works in the subway – at least in Japan.
Do you think this would work in your country just as well?
November, 4th 2011 12:06:17 / by Katrin Scheikl
“I Look & Move”, a stop-motion animation by Constantine Konovalov and Irina Neustroeva shows 90 sec of walking around in Moscow. They added all sites of the shooting to an interactive map – this means you could follow their traces on your next trip to Moscow. Realizing the video was a quite difficult task because of the widespread prohibition of photographing and filming in the city center. It took them about 3 months to finish the video – you can also watch a short making of video on their website.
Source: Teeter Totter Tam
November, 2nd 2011 18:16:45 / by Katrin Scheikl
Photo: JB London (Flickr)
At the very latest since James Bond “Casino Royale”, free running (or Parkour) got a lot of attention. Well, it’s said to be a fast and efficient way to move – especially in cities. Just think of being late for a meeting.
But please do not try this without training. The kids in Nicaragua show you how far you can get within a short period of time.
November, 2nd 2011 15:20:28 / by Felicitas Ruscher
Photo: Matthew, 3 years
Have you ever heart from a “Bobbycar driving licence”?
In Germany in Schwerte children between 1 and 3 years had to pass a tricky slalom and simultated hilly landscape. Of course, fun and laughing are in the foreground during the whole event. Parents and especially the children were impressend by the weekly training hours and by the “Big Driving Licence Exam”.
source: RuhrNachrichten.de
October, 27th 2011 18:35:45 / by Katrin Scheikl
For his “etiquette project” artist Jay Shells posts various street signs throughout Manhatten with etiquette messages on them.
One of his advices is: Don’t facebook while walking your status update can wait.
Another good advice: In case of fire exit building before tweeting.
October, 24th 2011 17:27:20 / by Katrin Scheikl
Bill Shannon was born with a bilateral hip deformity. Nevertheless he developed a way to express himself through dancing and skateboarding on crutches.
In 2009 he gained international attention for participating in a TV spot for Visa.
October, 21st 2011 20:23:16 / by Felicitas Ruscher
“Camellos”, also called camels, is an urban means of transportation in Havanna that arose in the 1990s during the economic crisis. The hump-backed camellos are trucks with 18 wheels and flatbeds transformed into bus-like carriages able to transport more than 300 people.
But the camellos gradually disappear from the city centre, and being replaced by imported articulated buses in order to provide comfort and more frequency. But the Cuban transport ministry plans to keep camellos for mass transit from peripheral neighborhoods to the center of Havana in the future.
Source: havanajournal.com
October, 20th 2011 10:11:00 / by Katrin Scheikl
Back in 1985 the DeLorean DMC-12 by Dr. Emmet Brown was quite futuristic. Well, it is still… The DeLorean Motor Company which remanufactures original DeLoreans takes the next step: It announced to put an all-electric DMC-12 into production by 2013.
Seems it is time for “Back to the future IV”:
Marty McFly: “Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… Are you telling me that you built an electric car… out of a DeLorean?”
Doc Brown: “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build an electric car, why not do it with some style?
Source: autoblog.com, delorean.com
October, 17th 2011 23:20:13 / by Felicitas Ruscher
The concept of Pendulous is to provide a high degree of comfort to the people using public transportation in their day daily routine. The target group are people aged between 18 and 35 years. That future solution also helps to conserve the environment.The theoretical background of Pendulous is based on understanding the society. It addresses and therefore it meets their requirements and hidden needs. Pendulous was created to facilitate comfort and everyday tasks in life day.
What do you think about that future means of transportation? Will Pendulous become the next generation of public transport?
Source: psipunk.com
October, 12th 2011 16:59:22 / by Felicitas Ruscher
It’s a tough decision.
The bike runs on fat, and saves me money.
The car runs on money, and makes me fat.
The car has a radio, protection from bugs and the weather, and when I hit things, it doesn’t hurt as much. Plus it goes wicked fast.
The bike can create its own roads, travel down the sidewalks without getting arrested, and no one cares if I wear spandex while driving it.
This is a tough decision.
Source: lolzombie.com
October, 10th 2011 16:03:01 / by Felicitas Ruscher
The Royal Rajasthan on Wheels is designed in a royal style to experience a slice of royalty and enjoy a royal feast onboard. The train takes the customer through a sven day exploration starting at New Delhi to various impressing highlights of India. A dedicatd team of stuff is included to ensure complete customer satisfaction!
Now Canada followed that concept and launched the project “Rocky Mountaineer”, which offers a royal feeling, too, during travelling through a wonderful nature.
That way of travelling seems to be the complete opposite of backpacking through a country’s landscape. What type of travelling do you prefer? Would you like to walk, go by bus and sleep in a tent or hostel or would you book the luxury train???
source: theluxurytrains.com
October, 7th 2011 18:04:21 / by Felicitas Ruscher
The Bromton Child Seat is a comfortable and easy manageable bike seat for young passenger.
“The strangely named ‘IT Chair’ is steel in construction with one clamp and two folding rubberised footrests. The clamp fastens to the seat post and the other end slots in just behind the crossbar hinge. Once fastened it feels pretty solid and the addition of a small passenger makes it even more so. The seat clamp wasn’t rubberized so as a temporary fix I added a strip of rubber cut from an inner tube.
Folding the bike up with the ‘IT Chair’ attached takes a few more seconds than normal but it’s easy enough and works well. Folded size is a little larger but only a tiny amount and not enough to affect practicality.”
Photos and text: OurManInside.com
October, 4th 2011 14:59:14 / by Felicitas Ruscher
Mobility Scooter Sightings is a random collection of sightings of the modern form of electric transport known as the disibility/mobility scooter. The blog with its funny set of photographs by Steffan Macmillan is a good read. This contribution shows a lady rider spotted cruising the topiaried boulevards at Chirk Castle.
September, 30th 2011 15:44:16 / by Katrin Scheikl
The pictures by Clement Valla prove there are artistic ways to use Google Earth…
Source: TechEBlog, Clement Valla
September, 29th 2011 9:21:43 / by Katrin Scheikl
Guadalajara hosted the X International Congress Towards Carfree Cities at the start of September. The Congress’s overall theme was “Cities for the people by the people”. It’s no surprise because it was organized by the local groups Ciudad Para Todos and GDL en Bici, which have been very active opponents to urban highways and have painted citizen bike lanes among other activities.
But: Is it possible to live in a city without cars? Here is an example from Germany: Vauban (and an article about it in NY Times)
Source: This Big City
September, 28th 2011 12:04:53 / by Felicitas Ruscher
Mobile ticketing provides full independence for the customer regarding the location and time to buy a ticket for public means of transportation. Tickets can be ordered in a variety of ways, by text messaging, via phone call, WAP page or a secure mobile application. Since the IATA (International Ait Transport Association) announced a global standard for using mobile check-in through bar coded boarding passes the USA is said to be able to save the industry over $500 Mio per year. Production and distribution costs are reduced by mobile ticketing and paper work time also declines.
So, everyone involved in the mobile ticketing process benefit from that innovation!
September, 23rd 2011 16:37:50 / by Felicitas Ruscher
The Hungarian enterprise Antro is planning a future car which consists of parts and are sticked together to enlarge the car. You know the main principle from playing LEGO in the childhood. This method allows to transform a car with three seats into one with six. Is the family growing, you can let grow your car, too!
Source: Wired, Autoworld (Photo)
September, 16th 2011 16:46:06 / by Katrin Scheikl
After some months of road works, the crossroad in front of the Kunsthaus (Graz) got a new traffic light: Only a red one. Too strange …
People know what to do if they are waiting in front of a traffic light. They are waiting for the light to turn green. But: What if there is no green light? Only a red one? – Nobody dares to cross the street even if the red light is off.
Everyone crossing the street for the first time waits for a sign … for the light to turn green. (Me too btw…) The light turns red and all those folks waiting realize that they would have been allowed to cross the street. When the red light is off again, some brave folks carefully cross the street and others follow.
Does this reveal the overload of traffic signs in modern society that there is so much need for a green light?
September, 13th 2011 11:05:23 / by Felicitas Ruscher
A South African enterprise, Unlimited IT, arranged a competition between a carrier pigeon and broad band internet. The delivery was a 4GB data transfer. The distance amounted 63 km. The carrier pigeon won the competition and transferred 4MBit per second.
Some Australian guys tested it and tried to transfer 700 MB of data via Internet, car and carrier pigeon. It took the pigeon only 1 hour and 10 minutes to win the competition. Just watch the video above.
Now the question: Should we change from broad band internet back to carrier pigeons???
World Identity Lab upgrades its current project Nowhere / Now here and focuses on cities. Each month a new city will be announced and people will be invited to contribute their special places of the particular city to us. Of course the original version of Nowhere / Now here keeps running - you can always contribute any of your special places from anywhere in the world to us.
