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If you don’t take your cycling too seriously and want to celebrate the arrival of summer in style, why not festoon your bike with living plants? The colourful bike planters are 3D printed, so not only will you be showing off your love of nature, but cutting edge technology. The planter attaches to your bike with a elastic nylon cord, and...

Looking like an IWC watch for your road bike's handlebars, the OMATA is a GPS cycle computer that displays information via a stylish analogue face. The OMATA allows ride data to be exported via USB-C to apps like Strava, while speed, distance, elevation and time are converted into the distinctive analogue movement by a mechanical...

The need to conserve fuel in the 1940s meant the proponents of car sharing pulled no punches, but despite there being 38 million empty car seats travelling around Britain every single day, the concept of pooling resources seems just as hard a sell today. Let us suppose that on a street of 200 houses, half the dwellings have a cordless...

A platoon of autonomous HGVs thundering along the motorway is enough to strike fear into the the most experienced of motorists, but lorry manufacturer Daimler has already tested the idea on public roads. Like a scene from the 1971 Spielberg horror flick Duel, which sees a motorist stalked on a remote road by a mysterious heavy goods...

What better way to enjoy the fleeting sunshine between April showers than a Lamzac Hangout – a pop-up sofa that seats two and packs small enough to fit in a shoe bag? The lightweight inflatable sofa is the most talked about camping accessory of 2016 for good reason. It takes only seconds to fill – you simply swing it through the air - and...

Lumineer is the bicycle light for cyclists that don’t want accessories cluttering up their handlebars or attracting the attention of thieves. The elegant and discreet bicycle light design is incorporated into the handlebar stem. There isn’t even a switch to complicate its appearance; to activate the light, you simply press its face....

It’s as iconic an image of traditional France as the beret or baguette, but the ‘Velo Solex’ has had a dramatic makeover and transformed from a moped into an electric bicycle. Pininfarina, the design house best known for styling Ferraris, has penned a vehicle that is far safer, environmentally friendly and affordable than any supercar – the...

A global network of pedal-powered coffee shops aims to take on the caffeine-powered leviathan that is Starbucks. Wheelys last year sold its pedal-powered café trikes to 45 countries, which means it’s growing faster than any chain that has come before. The business works on a franchise model; each café trike costs around £3,000. According to...

It’s hard to think of the bus as anything more than the work horse of public transport, but Simon Rowe has re-imagined it as mobile shelter for the homeless. After finding himself homeless for a brief period, Rowe found it impossible to turn a blind eye to those sleeping rough. With first-hand experience of how a good night’s sleep can...

A marriage of technologies old and new has given birth to the ultimate bicycle for the British wilderness. The steel frame might be based on a classic 1930s butcher’s delivery bike, but the built-in USB charger and carbon Loop front wheel is very much twenty-first century. Commissioned by TV chef and food campaigner Hugh...