A couple of people at work enjoy riding bikes, Andy rides to work and Richard enjoys off roading, a couple of people including myself catch a bus to work. So somehow combining the two to further help congestion and pollution would be a great idea.
Designers Marten Wallgren have come up with the concept of creating a car-free-zone in the central of London, called London Garden.
The energy created from riding a bike would be used to power a bus that is running on an electric cell. Therefore your efforts to ride in to town will be like a currency to get you a bus or even taxi home. This creates, sorry to use the term ‘cycle’ keeping you fit, helping the environment and saving money.
The entire concept does sound a bit far out but if we want to keep congestion to a minimum and stop destroying the environment then I think it’s something that needs to be considered.
We were all really excited here at ICM when we first saw that dark Vauxhall Astra with roof-mounted camera cruising the streets of Leeds creating what we now know as Streetview.
Streetview is the combination of Google Maps and Google Earth; an interesting tool allowing the user to view any area of a map in almost 360 degrees. But how exactly were all those thousands upon thousands of images processed, retouched and stitched together to give us the great end-result.
Google Japan have made this fantastic little video to explain it:
I loved watching Tomorrow’s World on the BBC. Depending on your age you will have differing memories of periods in the science and technology history.
For me, it was the likes of Judith Hann frying an egg on an indestructible new music format – the compact disc, Maggie Philbin demonstrating a touch-screen computer in 1982, and more recently, Trevor Bayliss and his clockwork radio in 1994.
Tomorrow’s World began in1965, the BBC’s flagship science programme ran for nearly 40 years. A mix of quirky film reports and live experiments examined the changing state of current technology and put new inventions to the test.
The BBC has now opened a Tomorrow’s World section in it’s archive website here. There’s some great viewing of future technologies as seen in the past – it makes interesting viewing, I’m still waiting for my hover-car…
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