It's been six years since entrepreneur Emily Brooke launched the Blaze, a bicycle-mounted laser projection safety system that she designed while still a student. In the time since she's turned its success into Beryl, a 30-person company based in London.
Technology moves fast in six years, and now Beryl has evolved the Blaze into the Laserlight Core, a smaller, lighter and brighter version:
The Laserlight Core has already sailed across the finish line, garnering $56,406 in pledges on a $50,000 goal. There's still 32 days left to pledge, and at press time there were still a few Early Bird specials left at $69 a pop (it's expected to retail for around $95).
We've dedicated a fair amount of pixels to how custom bike frames and fancy parts like aluminum wheels and seats are made. But what about workaday, average steel bicycle frames? Take a look at how rides for the 95% are fabricated, and check out the welder's jig-up in particular:
Steven M. Johnson's "Patent Depending" series of inventions range from social commentary to plain ol' bizarre, and they always give us a laugh. So we've contracted him to let us publish one every week.
A buddy of mine used to work for the MTA, and he had a special Metrocard for MTA employees that was in a different color. It was so cool, like a talisman that only behind-the-scenes folks were awarded. Now there's something similar for Citibike's assisters. To redistribute bikes around the
The last time we heard from British bike-rack makers back in 2016 we were in two minds as to whether their super light-weight, easy-fit, carbon-frame pannier system was an ingenious innovation or an answer to a problem that shouldn't need solving—should we really be carrying luggage on lightweight bikes not
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