Biking at night can be hazardous for riders and drivers alike, and there is no shortage of blinky lights, reflectors and even wearable attire that lights up. We’ve seen gloves with LED lights, vests that illuminate and even a wired light that can wrap around the frame. Continue reading Glo Bars Light the Night
Category: concept
X-9 Nighthawk Takes Flight
With each new bicycle design, Slovakian mechanical engineer Braňo Mereš has looked to utilize a new material. He’s created various on-off bicycle frames in recent years, and has included bikes made of carbon fiber (the cycling industry’s go to material), but also branched out with some innovative materials along the way. He’s riveted strips of titanium together and even used a woven bamboo fiber with an epoxy resin as very interesting take on composites. Continue reading X-9 Nighthawk Takes Flight
Cervelo P5 Makes Big Debut
While the athletes are the serious, Cervelo proved once again it is worthy of the Ironman competitions. The new P5 made its debut at the Ironman Melbourne last week and it brought several riders to excellent showings including two podium positions with Rachel Joyce (current ITU Long Course Champion) and Frederik Van Lierde (winner of the 2011 Ironman Nice and Abu Dhadi) placing 2nd and 3rd respectively. The P5 also made its debut appearance in the 7km time trial stage of the Criterium International with Garmin-Barracuda’s Dave Zabriskie finishing 7th in the time trial stage.
Plastic Fantastic to Carbon Fiber
Carbon fiber is a wondrous material, but it has some shortcomings including the fact that it isn’t that easy to recycle. However, last week came word that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory was working on a way to transform used plastic bags into carbon fiber, and this composite could even be fine-tuned, allowing different types of carbon fiber to be created for specific applications. Continue reading Plastic Fantastic to Carbon Fiber
Electric Bike Gets Turbo Treatment
Our friends at BikeRadar.com reported that Specialized has announced its new Turbo electric bike. What makes this Specialized bike so special is that it reportedly is the fastest ebike on the market, and can hit 28MPH. Continue reading Electric Bike Gets Turbo Treatment
Workouts Take to the Air
Growing tired of your daily routine at the gym? According to the American Council on Exercise, a nonprofit fitness organization, you may not be the only one, as more fitness enthusiasts are taking their workouts to the air with anti-gravity fitness classes. Continue reading Workouts Take to the Air
Ecogroomer Goes Green on the White Stuff
Making the ski slopes look at pure as fresh driven snow isn’t really that hard, but making the white stuff look nice isn’t exactly green. But now the Volvo-Powered Ecogroomer could be a game changer, as it builds on existing technology and adds self-powered augmentative grooming units to the side, thus covering 200 percent more surface area on each pass. Video after the jump
Light Up Gloves
We’ve seen bike lights, light up vests and even helmets that can signal, but now we’ve seen the LED Gloves, designed by Irene Posch. Known as the “Early Winter Night Biking Gloves” these could be ideal for late winter and early spring as well. These feature five LEDs in each glove and are powered by just a single cell battery.
These light up when the wearer clenches their fist and can help give drivers a little more indication on which way the rider is turning. It can help make a ride home at night a little safer.
Irene Posch
[Via Sociable: Bike safely with these LED gloves]
Skateboard that Snaps
We’ve seen some innovative skateboards that let riders take them off road and even mimic snowboards or surf boards, but now the SNAP Skateboard does a trick of its own. It is the world’s first folding board, and this aluminum deck can fold into three segments to make it better to transport when not in use. Video after the jump
Pin Lights the Night
Camping in the backyard means there is likely no shortage of light, but real camping out in the wilds probably means that when the sun goes down and the camp fire goes out things can be a bit dark. For those not familiar with their location this can be a bit dangerous in the night – such as when answering nature’s call.
But Pin Light, which was designed by Jung Su, Kim Dong Hwan, Yoon Ji Soo and Yoon Jae Sun and won a RedDot design concept award, is a simple concept that will help light the way at night. Essentially the Pin Light is tent stakes with built-in LED lights. As with the type of LED lights that are used to provide some illumination around a garden these are juiced up via the solar panels. While still in development these Pin Lights might make sure a trip to relieve one’s self doesn’t result in a trip over a tent line.
[Via RedDot: Red Dot Winners]
Split Board Designed to Survive in the Wilds
Those crazy guys at Every Third Thursday often create snowboards and surfboards that are solutions without a problem – and we do mean that in the nicest way. So it was no surprise to hear that they created the latest creation is such a board.
Introducing the Signal Snowboard Survivor Split, a one-of-a-kind board, that could be a dream for the snowboarding mountain man. It can cut wood, start a fire or even be used as a shovel. As the name suggests this board can split into skis to allow backcountry boarders to ski up the mountain and then down again – that in itself is pretty ingenious. Video after the jump
Sunday Q&A: MIPS Talks About Building a Better Brain Bucket
Helmets for fitness have seriously evolved in the past 25 years, and while even a decade ago riders in pro cycling didn’t like to wear them, now the helmets are not only required – they are embraced. But there is still a ways to go, and the Swedish developers at MIPS are working on building a better helmet. Because it isn’t just about protecting the head, it is also about protecting the gray matter in side. Niklas Steenberg, CEO of MIPS AB tells where helmet development is “headed.” Continue reading Sunday Q&A: MIPS Talks About Building a Better Brain Bucket
Take the Kill Shot
Brother Randy and Michael Gregg have come up with a novel new way to hunt – not with a rifle but with a camera. Actually more to the point it is a camera that looks like a rifle. It allows a hunter to get a “Kill Shot” without actually making a kill.
The brothers, who are avid hunters, came up with the idea while out in the woods where they used a camera phone to get a shot through a rifle’s scope. Thus was born their project, which is still in the development stage. The idea is that Kill Shot would allow users to take a photo when taking a shot. The basic shape of the device would resemble a rifle and feature a built in scope.
Randy and Michael, along with third brother Daniel have since started a Kickstarter project, and see this as a way for those who want to hunt without killing to have the ability to track animals as in a real hunter, or allowing novice hunters to learn the basics. Either way it is apt that the website of the trio is called “Harmless Hunter.”
Harmless Hunter Official Website
Harmless Hunter on KickStarter