It’s been a week for forward thinking bike technology here this week, and we’re not going to disappoint you for Friday. With cities all over the world taking up the idea of the hire bike as part of their transport systems, a recent competition to find a new design for the future took place, predictably, in Copenhagen.
One of the winning designs was the OPENbike, which, in the spirit of this week, can tell you where you are, where it is and lock itself if you leave it unattended. Like a good-time girl it’ll also flash you when you text it, although perhaps disappointingly this seems to be just the lights to show where it is amongst the other bikes you might have left it with. Another of the winning features was the freedom to have the bike left anywhere within the city, not restricted by docking stations or an expensive infrastructure. Which presumably means the organisers of the scheme can watch on the GPS tracking as the bike is transported far away form the city on a container ship.
The website also features what has to be the worst Photoshopped picture in the history of product design. It’s here and yes, you can really believe the outsized truck is actually there, look, those people are looking right at it.
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