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At press time their website had not yet been updated with this news, but the 2010 James Dyson Award has announced their US National Winner, along with the US Shortlist.
Top prize goes to MIT's SENSEable City Lab for their Copenhagen Wheel design, a sort of smart wheel that attaches to existing bicycles and transforms them into "hybrid electric-bikes with regeneration and real-time sensing capabilities."
Its sleek red hub not only contains a motor, batteries and an internal gear system - helping cyclists overcome hilly terrains and long distances - but also includes environmental and location sensors that provide data for cycling-related mobile applications. Cyclists can use this data to plan healthier bike routes, to achieve their exercise goals or to create new connections with other cyclists. Through sharing their data with friends or their city, they are also contributing to a larger pool of information from which the whole community can benefit.
Check out the full Shortlist here.
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this "wheel" is going nowhere. MIT has no plans to produce this thing in any measurable quantities. IT WILL NOT COME TO MARKET.
It is only used as a way to raise awareness and donations to the MIT science department. It is rolling down the same path the inventor of the Segway went - to see how money he could raise via an IPO.
the Greenwheel, now Copenhagen wheel, next month the Walter MITty wheel ? - is a financial scam based on a product they could care less about selling and supporting.
This is great!
Now that is smart!
Talked with a bike shop owner near MIT who did some work on the Copenhagen Wheel. He was surprised at how very heavy it was.
The announcement of Apple's recent patent on an "iBike" has some of the same connectivity as the Copenhagen Wheel.
For making prototypes and sample models based on the electric Energy is fine..
But we do not forget that the generation of electric energy worldwide is produced 85% by the coal and oil& gas as per recent NASA's data.
So we are not directly emitting the co2 content in atmosphere but indirectly by using electricity , it is happening
So great try and innovative idea but it could not be a futuristic solution which we can use as a Mass Effect in future .
It is not a direct comment on this article but it is commonly related to electrical solution what we think for future purpose.
Garry don't be an arse. This wheel was made for innovation, discovery, research, etc. The college is not going to directly sell the wheel. The Copenhagen Wheel was either apart of a research grant that MIT received. Or the Copenhagen Wheel was designed by the students and used there college to enter the competition. Either way. The college students who worked on the bike are proud of there work and you should stop belittling them for you failures in life.