Back in the day, cyclists keen to keep a record of their travels had to employ a map for directions and listen to the relentless click of a metal wheel clip nudging against a mechanical device for recording the miles travelled, but Garmin’s touchscreen Edge 800 cycling GPS unit cuts a far more modern dash.
We’re mighty keen on things that hurtle along on rails at Wirefresh, although we often find ourselves shouting at rail booking websites which often bedazzle us with endless options and befuddle us with complex pricing structures.
If you’re the kind of bloke (for it is almost always blokes) who gets excited by model trains, transformers, track laying and sticking little lichen trees around a board, then there’s a hotel in Japan waiting to embrace you with open arms.
A collaboration between Transport for London, Serco and Barclays Bank has seen thousands of bicycles being made available to Londoners, and the free Cycle Hire Widget for Android has been released to lets users locate a bike in double quick time.
Seeing as it’s a Friday, it’s sunny outside and the pub is calling our name, we thought we’d bring you a feature from our sister blog at urban75 and tell you about the amazing fake houses at 23/24 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London W2.
We love cycling and we love gadgets, so Nokia looks to be pedalling into a world of win with their new bicycle charging kit.
We loved the old Routemaster bus, with its handy rear platform for jumping on and off quickly, and Boris Johnson’s decision to reintroduce an updated version was one of the very few things we liked about the blonde buffoon.
The GLA have just released a video showing off the new design and it looks pretty damn good to our eyes – and pleasingly, more than a bit sci-fi too!
Helmet-donning, leather strutting motorbike riders with a propensity to get lost may find themselves getting all revved up about Tom Tom’s new Urban Rider GPS unit.
Sporting an updated interface with big buttons for making it easier to punch in routes when wearing gloves, there’s just two buttons on the unit: Navigate To and Browse Map.
With an Icelandic volcano currently spewing tonnes of ash towards UK skies, all aircraft are being grounded as a safety measure, with authorities mindful of the damage that hot, abrasive ash can do to a plane’s engines (i.e. knacker them completely).
Virgin Galactic has announced that VSS Enterprise successfully completed its inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
If you’ve only a passing interest in Britain’s railways, its architecture or industrial past, you should find Subterranea Brittanica’s Closed Stations site an invaluable and compelling resource.
Transport for London have released their all-new interactive bus map, and we’re feeling the love.
If you’re stuck in your office and fed up looking out at the car park, then why not take a virtual trip along the great Trans Siberian Railway?
Thanks to some clever Googlery, you can ride the whole length of the line from Moscow to Vladivostok and watch the countryside roll by as the train embarks on its titanic journey across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities.
London-based design and innovation company Seymourpowell has whizzed up an incredible vision of a giant, elegant ‘clipper in the clouds’ airship that’s got us scrambling for our passports and monogrammed leather luggage.
Boy, do we want this thing. NASA has slapped up a YouTube video of their amazing Puffin personal aircraft: a mean, lean, hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) flying machine.
Sadly, we’re only getting a computer generated animation of the aircraft at this stage, but the concept seems sound with the Puffin cleverly splitting its tail into four pieces to serve as landing gear, with flaps on the wings keeping the aircraft stable as it lifts and descends.
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