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...bridge that tilts into the air. Robots that crawl under doors. A hydrogen-powered bike and a surfboard that makes its own waves. Among this year's bumper crop of fresh new ideas, here are some of our favorites...
Drawbridges are quaint, but they are so medieval. So when city planners in the industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises...
...wondered about this as I took my bike out Sunday morning to do a familiar loop around my neighborhood (I live a half mile away from World Trade Center). Squeezing between police cars and roadblocks, I soon turned around, mostly because the smell––an acrid, chemical smell-had settled permanently in the air. Making a slow turn onto my street, I looked up, and for the first time in the fifteen years that I have been looking up, the view had irrevocably, permanently changed. My eye struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow...
...novel motorcycling experiences. While traveling through Germany this past summer as a research writer for Let’s Go, Marah rode a bright red motorcycle thanks to the kindness of a stranger. She met a man on the street who offered without any hesitation to loan his bike to her free of charge as she completed her itinerary. “I’ve decided he was an angel. He made my life so much easier,” she says. And in the upcoming weeks, Marah plans to take up an invitation to ride alongside Harvard University...
...undisturbed in the Quincy courtyard. She does not worry about theft because it has an ignition and it’s not a Harley, which typically goes for fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. “My Suzuki just doesn’t have the same prestige in the bike world. Harleys are special. They have a specific attitude,” she says...