Discount seating on empty private jet flights

We wrote about on-demand airline DayJet on two different occasions before it closed its doors a few weeks ago. Now a new Swiss company is taking a different approach to private jet travel by making...

Bike stand doubles as tire pump

There's no doubt bicycles are going through a renaissance of sorts, as the dual pressures of gas prices and environmental concerns spur consumers to look for transportation alternatives. Makes...

Intention-based shipping in the Arab world

When we wrote about Texas-based uShip last year, we noted that there were few—if any—equivalents on other continents. As if on cue, earlier this year a new company with a similar model entered beta...

Vending machines for bicycle parts

Unless they happen to be near a bicycle shop during business hours, bicyclists who break down are typically out of luck if they don't already have the parts they need to make a repair. Aiming to make...

Towards Solving the Traffic Tragedy

In Distracting Miss Daisy John Staddon makes a strong argument for changes in the way traffic control is managed in the United States: A more systematic effort to train drivers to ignore road...