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good: A Stronger Bike Helmet, Made of Cardboard and Inspired by a Woodpecker When Anirudha Surabhi was a grad student at the Royal College of Art in London, he was in a bike accident. Even though it was a minor crash, and Surabhi was wearing an expensive helmet, the next day he learned that he had a concussion. He spent three days in the hospital. He wondered why the helmet hadn’t worked—and decided to explore the problem for his thesis project. It turns out that bike helmets are not as safe as they’re portrayed to be. Over the last few decades, Surabhi says, some helmets have gotten more aerodynamic and better-looking, but they haven’t gotten any better at protecting us from injuries… For the full design story, watch the video. The helmet’s in production now, and Core77 reports that the first U.S. version of the helmet will be out next year through ABUS. Images courtesy of Anirudha Surabhi
» Researchers Develop a Self-Filling Water Bottle that Harvests Water from the Air

…NBD Nano is taking advantage of this technology to create a water bottle that can continually fill itself up. The company hopes to have the water bottle on the market by 2014. “We see this being applicable to anything from marathon runners to people in third-world countries, because we realize that water is such a large issue in the world today, and we want to try to alleviate those problems with a cost-efficient solution,” says Deckard Sorensen, co-founder of NBD Nano.

inhabitat, 23.11.12

» On Data and Cities: New York City, measuring-up

How NYC has become a city obsessed with innovation, numbers & design

But it’s not just government agencies taking the lead; citizens are activating new technology to achieve policy changes. In 2006, following Streetsblog’s breaking news story on rampant illegal parking by city employees with government placards allowing them to park for free, OpenPlans and Transportation alternatives launched UncivilServants.org. The site allowed individuals to submit pictures of cars using government placards to illegally park on sidewalks, in bike lanes and other unsafe places, attracting 100,000 visits and the media in its first week. OpenPlans has also helped to start recent trials of real time bus tracking and has developed open source tools to help citizens better analyze 311 data…

ny.untappedcities, 25.06.12.

i would venture a guess that SD doesn’t have much in data collection

— lol just found a recent article:
Complained About a Pothole? Better Be Patient. voiceofsandiego, 20.06.12.

» "should have been plugged out at birth"

Standing on a Segway just too much effort for you? Well, Walking The Walk has just gotten a lot more seated and easier.

The UNI-CUB, designed by Honda, allows you to move in any direction, turn and stop and get up to the breakneck speed of 3 miles per hour. You can freely move forward, backward, side-to-side and, if you’re feeling adventurous, diagonally.

All the things you could never do before.

Oh, wait a minute…it’s called walking.

dothegreenthing, 07.06.12.

» The Next Great Technology Platform: The Bicycle

…These community hubs and organizations reflect how bikes help create new shared social spaces. That’s because the bike is an inherently social machine. It has no walls; it’s human powered and we can all (some more than others) try our hand at hacking and repairing them. 

…Bikes have already changed our relationships to each other and the urban environment, but consider the potential for so much more.

Imagine a future where cities go beyond bike lanes and build the urban environment around bikes. What would a bike highway look like? What would city life be like without cars? Imagine a healthier city — no more kids in the Bronx with asthma — and reduced automobile fatalities.

atlanticcites, 16.05.12.

Big Ballers Bike Club: East New York, Brooklyn, 2011.

8bitfuture: Transparent solar panels could replace your windows. German startup company Heliatek is testing their flexible, transparent solar panels which could one day be built into houses to act as power-generating windows. techreview, 17.04.12.
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