We’ve just recently come across this playful concept for a bike rack. Pretty wild, eh? Known as the Bike Hanger, this contraption was proposed by Manifesto Architecture, a New York-based architecture firm. The conveyor belt like setup allows riders to affix their bike to the structure, and as more bikes get loaded on, a pedal-powered pulley system moves the bikes higher up. When a rider wants to retrieve their wheels, it’s just a matter of pedaling until it appears.
Last year we spotted this brilliant bike lock. It’s a hacked together remote controlled lock that scales lampposts, keeping bikes out of thieves reach. Just genius. Until, of course, someone locks their bike up beneath yours …
(Spotted on Gizmodo)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
