Digital Bike

In an attempt to make us more like Amsterdam and Europe and provide a green, healthy personal mobility alternative, a new affordable digital bike sharing system called Social Bikes will be launching in New York this fall. Social bike set-up costs are a fraction of those using traditional infrastructure-based systems, like the ones in Velib in Paris or Biking in Barcelona ($3,000 to $4,000) and cost less than $1,000.

Social Bikes will work like this: If you need a bike for a day register online and you'll find the closest designated rack on an iPhone app and select one from the GPS-enabled map. The locking system on the bike lets you lock it up on any rack, not only the designated ones. You'll transfer funds over the internet through your phone and you're off. If you don't have a smart enough phone, you can just punch an unlock code into the unit or unlock it via SMS.

If your bike happens to be broken, hit the "repair" button and the bike will be flagged for pick-up. What will you do if you need to pop in a store and don't want some to ride away with it? You'll just press the "hold" button and you'll have ten minutes after locking the bike before it goes operable again.

Hopefully this test will not be sabotaged by the well... theft and crime in New York. Maybe they should have picked a less crime-ridden city like Boise.
Source :http://www.besportier.com

Nike Sense automatically adjusts stud length in your soccer boots

This new soccer technology Nike Sense is seen on the mercurial vapor superfly II lightweight football boots. These new soccer technology soccer boots feature Nike sense, a specially designed adaptive traction system that adjusts the stud's height depending on the conditions of the terrain. The first of its kind, Nike Sense uses this new technology to provide players with more traction in both wet and dry conditions, and to ultimately give them better acceleration. The technology actually reacts to the pressure applied by the player's foot and adjusts the stud respectively by up to 3mm to dig into the ground
Source :http://www.besportier.com