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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Google’s Vision of the Future? Bicycle Meets Monorail | Epicenter 

Two years ago Google launched the 10^100 project to give millions to fund ideas that will change the world. After being overwhelmed by 150,000 ideas, Google finally announced five winners on Friday.

One of the top five is a company appropriately called Shweeb that proposes building a monorail made of little clear capsules powered by people pedaling recumbent bicycles. Google is giving the company $1 million to fund R&D to “test Shweeb’s technology for an urban setting.”

The others seem a bit more conventional.

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Angus and Robertson Edwardstown said...

Hi there,

You have won a versatile blogger award

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Congrats!!

Tarran

Colin Campbell said...

Well thank you. I will take a look in the next few days.