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It’s been almost an year since the first article I published on a gadget blog and it’s been quite an experience, because otherwise I wouldn’t have had the chance to read and write about so many concept gadgets that seemed to be (and they still do, as a matter of fact) not only very difficult to imagine for regular people, but also spectacular and sometimes unbelievable.

Some of those gadgets seem to be like a dream that will never come true. However, many of them became reality, but many, many others are still waiting in line for them to see the light of the day. It might never happen, but designers from all over the world keep trying, even if, at first glance, it isn’t worthwhile.



Such a concept is the one created by Marten Wallgren, Il Choi, David Seesing and Miika Hekkinen, which is inspired by the traffic situation in London. The team had to imagine how the traffic will look like in 2030 and to create a vehicle to perfectly suit that certain context.



“Our concept was to create a car-free-zone in the central of London, called London Garden. Inside this zone we developed a system created around bicycles. Allowing a special designed bicycle/scooter to be well integrated with the infrastructure as well as becoming a part of the interior of the busses and taxis. Inside London Garden, the users have more awareness of the individual energy consumption. In fact, the energy that you create while biking is used as a currency while docking the bicycle into the bus or taxi.” (from Marten Wallgren’s blog)



The bike concept was part of a contest called “Future City Mobility” and managed to win the Seymour Powell award. It comes with solar panels that are placed on the wheels, helping the bike generate energy which is being stored in the bike itself.



If you wonder what the user can do with the amount of energy, you should know that the bicycle can easily turn into an electric scooter. More than that, the designers came up with an entire network of electric means of transportation, from buses to taxis and scooter-bikes. It sounds like a Utopia, right?



(Source: Dvice)