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The makers of electric cars have done all they can to make their battery powered vehicles indistinguishable from those fuelled by petrol or diesel – the Nissan Leaf is every inch the conventional city car – but what if the road to success lies in creating cars that dare to be different. Cars such as Nimbus. Nimbus is a hybrid electric...

With the distance between airport entrance and departure gate an ever-lengthening walk, the ride-on electric suitcase was an invention waiting to happen. And with the trek between the entrance to Beijing Airport Terminal 3 and its furthest departure gate a staggering 2 miles, China was bound to be its birthplace. Chinese inventor He...

Like all the best ideas, Clug is fiendishly simple - a tiny wall-mounted clip that keeps your bike upright to protect walls from scuff marks. Depending on how high up a wall it is fixed, a Clug can hold a bike on one or two wheels. The design company responsible for the Clug, Vancouver-based Hurdler Studios, believes that giving people more...

Bicycles secured with flimsy cable locks are being tagged as unsafe by police in America. The yellow tags yellow read: “The Police Department stole your bike” “Cable locks just aren’t safe,” Commander Jason Mollendor of Auraria Police, Denver, told metnews.org. “It takes a thief no time to get through them with wire cutters.” Cyclists can...

One lucky British cyclist this summer will win a cycling airbag that cost £10m to develop. The Hövding is the world's first cycling airbag and is up for grabs in a free prize draw organised by leading bike insurer, the ETA. Hovding and its inflatable 'invisible cycle...

Aerial footage might once have been the preserve of big-budget films, but a new design of inexpensive camera drone promises to make cycling stars of us all. The fully autonomous £330 Hexo+ uses a gimbal to carry a GoPro camera to capture footage. The flying camera platform works in conjunction with a smart phone to automatically follow your...

French cyclists can now claim a 20-cents-per-kilometre incentive for every kilometre they pedal to and from work under a pilot scheme launched this month. A rider with a 10-mile commute into work will be entitled to £128 every month. The initiative aims to encourage more people to cycle to work.

The 360cam from GIROPTIC is a new digital camera that takes 360-degree pictures heralds a new generation of bicycle helmet cameras. Helmet cams are used by an increasing number of cyclists for the video evidence they can provide in the event of a road traffic collision. The flaw with conventional cameras is that they offer only a view of...

THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW ENDED The Hovding is a revolutionary safety device for cyclists that has already sold in its thousands, but it's unlikely you will have noticed any on the roads - the world's first cycling airbag is indistinguishable from a coat collar until it inflates in the event of a crash. The airbag cost £10m to develop and is...

The American public has donated over £1 m to the couple behind Solar Roadways - a revolutionary solar-powered modular road paving system. Scott and Julie Brusaw have spent eight years developing the solar road panels in their back yard. The glass panels are robust enough to withstand the pressure from an articulated lorry and designed to be...