The Q outfitted a bicycle with invisible wheels. It's a simple idea (while probably tricky to get right) with a rather wonderful effect.
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Mar 19, 2020
This bicycle has invisible wheels
The AmazonBasics Folding Bike Lock can be easily picked in three seconds
This is the AmazonBasics Folding Bike Lock. It’s $28. Don’t buy it. “Because this can be opened so quickly with low-skill attacks, it should go without saying that I see this as a product to avoid,” says the LockPickingLawyer.
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I filmed my socially distant bike ride through the ghost town of downtown Boston
While there were certainly more people out than I expected to see … there weren’t that many. Which somehow made it even weirder than the Boston Marathon Bombing Lockdown, when at least the shared sense of fear was more palpable.
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Bicycles shipped in fake flatscreen TV boxes suffer less shipping damage
In 2015, Amsterdam-based e-bike company VanMoof started shipping to the United States but found that a disproportionate number of them were damaged during shipping. So they started putting the bikes in fake flatscreen TV boxes. From VanMoof: That small tweak had an outsized impact. Overnight our shipping damages dropped by 70-80%. We sell 80% of […]
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This leather and stainless steel Active Strap is the band your Apple Watch never knew it needed
If there’s any knock on most smartwatches, up to and including the industry-leading Apple Watch, it’s probably that the bands aren’t…well, they aren’t usually the greatest. While Apple is certainly making strides in the watchband game, most models are just as black, boring and nondescript as you’d expect from a tech company. And where many […]
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Busuu can teach you your favorite foreign language and you’ll have worldwide help
For all their obvious similarities, language learning apps will often each take unique approaches to teaching a foreign tongue. Or, in the case of many services, a whole bunch of foreign tongues. While some providers give you access to training across overwhelming menus of more than 150 different languages, the people behind the Busuu Language […]
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Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick
Example no. 3,225 why the real world isn’t like The Brady Bunch: your home office. Mike Brady was able to turn his den into a truly groovy cool home office for his architectural work. Mike had a wife, six kids and a live-in maid, yet still had a spare room he could devote to his […]
