Entries Tagged as 'Transportation'

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Suitcase Folding Bike

Here’s one for our green travelers; a suitcase folding bike. It’s a hefty suitcase which transforms into a bike. The handles, peddles, seat and the wheels pop out of the suitcase and can be ridden just like any other bike. This is not a concept; there are reports that this bike is in production in [...]

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Rugged PCs for Vehicles

There was a time when PCs were maintained in air conditioned rooms and a lot of precautionary measures were taken to safe guard it. Gone are these days with the advent of rugged PCs that can be placed in any vehicles including towing trucks, cranes and forklifts.
Noax Technologies has introduced a new range of [...]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Fastest Conventional Train by the French

I had written about train transportation undergoing major improvements in the past couple years to fight the cheaper flight rates. The only chance the trains in Europe stood against air travel was to cut the travel time and reduce the fares. The former has been achieved by the French TGV last week when it hit [...]

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Bullet Trains of the West

Europe will be soon waking up to trains that will zip faster than Super Man and the transportation that has taken Japan into new heights. Shinkansen (Bullet Trains of Japan) has been a great success for a nation made of tiny islands. The European rail companies are planning to replicate the same to counter the [...]