RPPLSocial Life: The Copenhagen Wheel Project
Funny how social technology tends to get pigeonholed as a purely digital phenomenon. Many of us rely on social media to make our lives better online, but offline much of the integration we see is only memorable for its novelty.
The bright minds at MIT's SENSEable City Lab aim to help change all that with the Copenhagen Wheel Project. The Project revolves around the Copenhagen Wheel, a device that captures and stores the energy and data generated from cycling. In short, it transforms your average ten speed into a hybrid e-bike. Your smartphone, laptop or PC can lock and unlock the device, enabling you to access and share stored information with your friends (or your city) across your social platforms of choice.
Technologies like the Copenhagen Wheel make it possible for us to crowdsource geolocational usage patterns, energy consumption habits anad other potentially beneficial environmental data. To us, it's the kind of innovation that can do wonders for our collective social life.
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