Hey Google: Robot bicycles are already a thing

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By now you’ve seen the Google self driving bicycle video. I began planning for today about six months ago when I talked with a film studies student at UC Santa Cruz about creating a video for the same concept of an autonomous bicycle. We began the process of storyboarding and conceptualizing the look of the […]

Japanese pet porter bicycles

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Do you know about those delivery bicycles with small front wheels and large front baskets? In Japan, these bike are apparently marketed for carrying your pets. This is the Coloco “Potta” — pronounced “po tah” (think how a Japanese person might pronounce porteur) — which retails for the equivalent of $360 American plus shipping. Another […]

Bicycles at a Brazilian Oktoberfest

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Revelers ride bicycles during Oktoberfest on October 24, 2015 in Blumenau, Brazil. The city, founded in 1850 by Dr. Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau and seventeen other German immigrants, helds its annual Oktoberfest last weekend. An estimated 30 percent of the city’s 320,000 residents are of German descent. Its Oktoberfest is one of the largest in […]