No lock is safe from a crook equipped with power tools, so in the fight against theft, bicycle security is becoming ever more imaginative. Shunklock is a D-lock that’s pressurized with a noxious chemical deterrent. When the lock is cut, a cloud of gas containing an irritant is released into the air surrounding the thief. The noxious chemicals induce vomiting as…
The Shield TL is a bicycle light with a difference: Its distinctive form promises to make the bike highly visible to car radars – a digital shield to protect cyclists. The Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS) fitted to new cars is a virtual co-pilot for drivers, a radar that looks out for potential hazards on the road ahead – great if…
How clean is the air where you live? Air pollution is rarely highlighted to prospective house buyers, but as air quality deteriorates and the link between pollutants and poor health strengthens, expect there to be increasing interest in maps such as this. The map at aqicn.org/map/europe provides daily updates on air quality around Europe. Air quality is rated as good…
The deficit in our engineering workforce comes at time when innovation has never been so vital to our economy – let alone our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Expert design and engineering can be a powerful catalyst in enabling a modal shift to greener modes of travel. Ann Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has spoken…
Mobility scooters are getting bigger. We buy up to 80,000 a year in Britain alone and the models themselves are becoming larger, better equipped and more sociable. The latest designs even offer the option of two seats. Tandem mobility scooters are no different from a conventional driver-only model, other than their stretched chassis and additional seat. There are two categories of mobility…
