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Wheels Change Worlds

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I love this approach to technology.

It's one of the many brilliant ideas from the guys at MIT SENSEable City Labs http://bit.ly/QPQPN

Check out more on this simple but extremely clever innovation http://bit.ly/7WRxiU

Adaptive Path provided a synopsis of what this wheel can bring to you, your health, your friends and the city:

As you ride, the sensing unit in the Copenhagen Wheel is capturing information about your personal riding habits how much effort you are putting in, calories you are burning etc as well as information about your surroundings, including carbon monoxide, NOx, noise, ambient temperature and relative humidity. You can access this data through your phone, or on the web and use it to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve your exercise goals, or to meet up with friends on the go. You own all the data that your Copenhagen Wheel collects. However, you might also like to share it with friends -through online social networks gaining access to an even larger pool of information.

You can also make a bigger contribution through your daily commute. And share your data, anonymously, with your city. When many cyclists donate the information their wheel is collecting, your city gains access to a new scale of fine-grained environmental information. Through this, your city can: Cross analyze different types of environmental data on a scale that has never before been achieved before. Build a more detailed understanding of the impact of transportation, on a city infrastructure Or study dynamic phenomena like urban heat islands. Ultimately, this type of crowd sourcing can influence how your city allocates its resources, how it responds to environmental conditions in real-time or how it structures and implements environmental and transportation policies.

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PACT: Architected

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What have these two images got in common?

As PACT continues to do cool things around cause and underwear, they have commissioned David Adjaye, the architect of the building on the left, to design underwear for their Earth Week initiative.

I love PACT's approach to cause. See more here http://bit.ly/bKvq3


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Kinetic Soccer

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A group of four students in an engineering sciences class at Harvard University have come up with the idea for sOccket - the energy harvesting soccer ball. SOccket is a fun, portable energy-harvesting power source in the form of a soccer ball.

This is just brilliant in understanding the passions of local communities and using this to do something incredible for the community.

This is not just about producing energy - this is about saving lives with the reduction of kerosene usage.

Read more here http://bit.ly/botSkE

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