Seen with Oren on the streets of Copenhagen… I can’t but share it with you… Have you ever seen an espresso machine on a bike before??? Ole, is the driver. He was working in the coffee industry before. Now he designed this mobile coffee shop “Welcome to my lounge” he says. “Tomorrow there will be music… Some Bossa Nova. Bossa Nova and coffee, or Jazz… there isn’t anything better really!” “In big coffee shops, the coffee is not as fresh.” Ole buys his coffee from 3 local shops (Roasted there) in Copenhagen. A friend helped him build the top of the vehicle. The bike? A company designs these kind of bikes. In the trunk on the front of the vehicle, he has 300(?) cups… I have tasted: THE COFFEE IS A MIRACLE!
The creators are Adam Mack, Brian Mason, John Lai, Paul Silberschatz and Eleanor Morgan…
“The Aquaduct is pedal powered vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. A peristaltic pump attached to the pedal crank draws water from a large tank, through a carbon filter, to a smaller clean tank. The clean tank is removable and closed for contamination-free home storage and use. A clutch engages and disengages the drive belt from the pedal crank, enabling the rider to filter the water while traveling or while stationary. The Aquaduct is the winning entry in the Innovate or Die contest put on by Google and Specialized. Please see the website: www.innovate-or-die.com for more details.”
Still can’t get how you can type and drive at the same time… Thank you N.B. for the link… But here is how one can cope with mobility when you have a chauffeur… A classic… “what I am going to do while in transit?” Is that so boring to do nothing? Check this Car computer System.
Un article qui nous fait penser à nos sociétés “on-demand”: Axa veut faire payer l’assuré comme il roule. Dans Challenges! Article du 11-10-2007 par Eric Tréguier. (Merci Mehdi!)
Le principe est simple : la boîte reliée à un GPS transmet régulièrement à l’assureur, via le mobile du client, des statistiques sur l’utilisation du véhicule. La compagnie adapte ensuite la facture. Vous roulez beaucoup et en pleine nuit sur de petites routes ? Vous paierez plus cher que si vous laissez votre voiture au garage ou si vous ne l’utilisez que le midi, du lundi au vendredi. Tout sera détaillé dans votre facture.
A very interesting 52 minutes 1972 BBC documentary (directed by Julian Cooper) staring Reyner Banham (1922-1988), architecture theorist, member of the Independent Group, who also had contacts with Archigram.
We learn in Encyclopedia Britannica…
[…] The automobile so dominates life in this uniquely mobile community [Los Angeles] that Reyner Banham, an English observer who took his cue from scholars who study Italian in order to read Dante, is said to have learned to drive a car so he could “read Los Angeles in the original.”
