Alternative Fuels Now

We spend an awful lot of time talking about cars here at EcoGeek. And that’s not necessarily something that we’re proud of. We think that cars, in the end, can never be green…only greener. Which is why we love Carectomy, and also why we love these bike trees.

In general, bike racks suck. They’re used improperly, often there aren’t enough around, and they can even be downright insecure. Parking and walking away from your thousand-dollar investment is never fun, especially when we all know that any lock, with enough persistence, can be cut.

Enter the bike tree, a marvolous bit of technology which will keep your bike safe in any situation (save a meteorite.) Abhinav Dapke of Bahrain and India designed the trees to deal with theft, and with congested bike parking. The trees actually use significantly less space than traditional bike parking.

Just hook your bike into the device, push the thumbprint scanner, and the bike gets lifted to safety. When you return, scan your thumb again your bike comes down to meet you. A simple system, and one that could also be performed with RFID or a swipe card, to lower the costs of thumb-scanning.

In any case, one more way to make biking more convenient. Now if they just put a roof over the whole thing we  wouldn’t have to worry about soggy-butts after a rainstorm.

Via TreeHugger