In a bid to use modern technology to recreate a dream of the 1970s, US organic supermarket, Whole Food, has developed a shopping cart which uses Kinect and a tablet to follow you round the store and monitor what you buy.
Is the Camioncyclette a bike with too many baskets attached, or is it just a giant, rideable shopping trolley? According to designer Christophe Machet, it’s in fact a “transportation bicycle” and can carry up to 150kg in those wiry receptacles.
The transforming Ville concept folding bicycle is no mere bike – it is a bike-slash-shopping trolley hybrid vehicle for the 21st century eco-friendly consumer. It is bicycle and grocery containment in one convenient form factor.
As designer Ramon Coronado demonstrates, if you cut ‘em up and rearrange the parts, you can actually make some really cool furniture.
