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Several areas of the UK now charge for plastic grocery bags as a green tax and reusable shopping bags have become very popular. Mind you, carrying round a scrunched up bunch of old bags is never a good fashion statement. Fortunately Ohyo has designed a good-looking accessory which morphs from a pouch to a messenger bag before completely opening up as
We don't usually think of buses as being speedy things. And usually, we don't actually want them to be going too fast. But a new type of bus, dubbed "Bus Hound" in England, has set a new land speed record for vehicles of its type. What's even more surprising about this is that the bus is powered by biomethane made
Safety (or lack thereof) is one of the main reasons cited why people don't take up cycling for commuting and with over 20,000 bike accidents in London alone in 2013, it's a reasonable concern. To prevent the most common cycling accidents, the Babel Bike has been designed for a new era of cycling safety with innovative features including a safety cage,
Personal electric vehicles were very much in evidence at The Gadget Show with bicycles, scooters and skateboards all on show from different vendors. Voltz Bikes covered two of these categories; bicycles and scooters. First up is the Voltz eTrail, an electric mountain bike which was recently road-tested on The Gadget Show itself. With a range of up to 50 miles, the
Todd takes a look at Ford's C-Max Solar Energi concept car, which amongst other things, features a solar panel roof that uses a special light concentrator lens similar to a magnifying glass to improve the efficiency of the photovoltaic cells. Ford reckons that a day's worth of sunshine is enough to charge the hybrid's battery, which is good for 21 electric-only
David shows off Xi3's latest developments including the X7A modular computer and the Z3RO Pro. If you haven't seen Xi3's offerings before, you need to check them out - they're small cube-like units totally unlike your normal case. The X7A is aimed at the power user with a quad core AMD Trinity processor, Radeon graphics, 8 GB RAM, SSD (up to 1
LED lamps are undoubtedly one of the most energy efficient ways of producing light, but even then the conversion from household AC to low voltage DC creates extra heat that needs to be dissipated. Switch Lighting Co have developed a technique that not only keeps the lamps cool but provides are more natural diffuse light. Todd and Don are illuminated