If, like me, you have acquired a variety of differently sized backpacks to be used in different situations then this design from San Francisco-based Boreas Gear, Inc may well be right up your valley. Boreas Gear has designed a modular pack system that provides three bags in one. The idea is to produce a simple…
If, like me, you have acquired a variety of differently sized backpacks to be used in different situations then this design from San Francisco-based Boreas Gear, Inc may well be right up your valley. Boreas Gear has designed a modular pack system that provides three bags in one. The idea is to produce a simple... [more]
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A cardboard bicycle. Yup, that’s what it says. Just when you thought that cycling couldn’t get any more eco friendly, engineer and inventor, Izhar Grafni, creates one made from cardboard. Is this re-cycling? Grafni’s journey to create a cardboard bike was triggered by a conversation when shopping for cycle parts where a cardboard canoe was... [more]
Ever needed a “vaguely live map” of train times? Whether it be for London Kings Cross, Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly or elsewhere in the UK, I have just the thing for you. Traintimes.org.uk is handy and fascinating in equal measures. The collection of (approximately) live train maps shows where all the services are on... [more]
As an O2 customer this news pleases me as I, and others of my O2 brethren, will soon be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi on the London Underground once more. Between the start of the London 2012 Olympics and the end of January, anyone with a Wi-Fi-enabled device could freely connect to the network, which... [more]
Not only is overly-loud music escaping from someone’s headphones or earphones annoying, it’s most likely damaging their ears. This we already know. According to the latest report, listening to MP3s on the London Underground can cause as much damage to your hearing as operating a drill on a building site. Noise Awareness Day occurs on... [more]
From certain angles you can barely see this road bike which would probably be the stuff of nightmares for much of the country’s pedestrians and commuters. I’m not saying that it doesn’t look great, well the bits you can see, or that it’s not very clever, because it is. But, as one that has been... [more]
