China's first retractable 3D printed bridge installed in Shanghai. Thoughts? Would you like to see dynamic architecture in your city?
You activate bridge using smartphone bluetooth and it unfurls within one minute.
More info: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1227887.shtml
Teeny-weeny foldable e-bike that weighs 13kg, folds up to A3 paper size and has 20 km battery life. Who wants one?
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi Technology commercialised the HIMO H1 through a crowdfunding campaign in 2020, raising £194,153 from 477 backers. The bike now retails at around £50.
Loop: subterranean Tesla tunnel in Vegas from The Boring Company. Three station system cuts a 45 minute walk across convention centre to 3 min ride. Future of urban transport or luxury gimmick? Would need many tunnels to make a dent in traffic congestion?
Boring say their novel machines can build tunnels at $10m per mile compared with $1bn - $100m per mile historically, which makes the system viable at scale.
More info: https://www.boringcompany.com/projects
E-moped battery swap station from Taiwan's Gogoro. Fully charged batteries in a matter of seconds. Want to see this in your country?
Recently announced its 400,000th battery swap subscriber in Taiwan. The company has also surpassed 200 million battery swaps since its 2015 launch and saved millions of kilograms of CO2 in the process.
Now expanding into India and China. Valued at $2.35 billion in planned merger.
Laser cleaning vaporises rust, paint and dirt. With no chemicals needed, could this be more environmentally friendly?
This device from Australian company Precision Laser Cleaning uses the fact that everything absorbs different wavelengths of light at different rates. The laser is calibrated to vaporise a predetermined contaminant and no other material.
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