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No one can say for certain whether it’s dangerous to cycle while wearing headphones, but whatever the case, you can hedge your bets with the iHat – a beanie with built-in speakers that keeps your head warm and more than likely allows you to hear more of what’s going on around you while you listen to music. At around £10 from Amazon, the...

Car and scooter manufacturer Peugeot recently took inspiration from both forms of transport to produce a tiny, 2.5m-long, four-seater electric vehicle reminiscent of the bubble cars of the 1960s. The line that separates lightweight cars and motorcycles continue to blur with the advent of the Aixam Coupe S, a light quadricycle that be driven...

Do you ever feel you are pedalling in the wrong gear? A new smartphone app unveiled this week works out the best gear for your cadence and then wirelessly shifts up or down.

A pop-up zebra crossing designed by the ETA has scooped top honours at the Green Apple Awards, which took place this week at the Palace of Westminster. The pop-up zebra crossing was an example of guerrilla marketing - a low-cost, unconventional, and often localised way of promoting a product or an idea, which in this case was road safety...

Firework season marks the time of year when it’s all too easy to get caught out without bicycle lights, so why not take inspiration from a DIY shoe modification that allows you to produce showers of sparks as will? Instructables.com allows makers around the world to share building instructions for their wonderful, and sometimes weird,...

A puncture-proof tyre similar to those fitted to the American Humvee military vehicle will soon be available for your mountain bike. Colorado designer Brian Russell has developed what he describes as an Energy Return Wheel that he hopes will soon be fitted to cars – and bicycles – around the world. Russell claims the wheel will save...

Winter driving conditions can be as taxing for your car as they are for you. The following tips should be of help to you both: Antifreeze During the winter you use more windscreen wiper fluid so make sure that you have anti-freeze or windscreen washer fluid anti-freeze mix, in your car’s water bottle. You don’t want to find yourself stuck...

Skiing and snowboarding are not green activities, but you can take steps to reduce their impact on the environment. Travel Getting to the resort is the most detrimental aspect of skiing. The (largely) nuclear-powered Eurostar makes getting to the Alps a low-carbon way of getting to the slopes, and even a car carrying its full complement of...

Given the paltry £1 or £2 per head of population that the government spends on cycling in England, it’s hardly surprising that British cyclists suffer substandard infrastructure and road conditions, but it doesn't stop news of Dutch plans for heated cycle lanes feeling like (road) salt rubbed into the wound. The Dutch province of Utrecht is...

As cash-strapped local authorities look to save on energy costs by switching off street lamps in the dead of night, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled plans for ‘smart highways’ that include glow-in-the-dark white lines and a road that lets drivers know if conditions become icy. When the white lines at the side of the road are...