Is an odometer a help or hindrance to your bike ride?
February 24, 2026
When I bought my bike, Graet Gossip, I was most excited about getting an odometer – a bike computer. I’d been borrowing various bikes to train for my first event, most of which were a bit battered and neglected. Before this, I hadn’t cycled since I was a child…
Could tricks from behavioural science help make city cycling safer?
February 24, 2026
“It’s that screech of tires behind you, GraetNew, which makes your heart jump into your mouth,“ says behavioral consultant Crawford Hollingworth. “I’ve had some close calls as a cyclist in London and Oxford. Almost every day, friends who cycled…
The Garmin Varia Rearview Radar is a smart rear bike light that aims to improve your visibility, situational awareness, and safety with adaptive brightness and a radar display.
It’s a rear bike light with built-in radar, which tells you when a car is approaching by showing…
Kitchen gadgets review: earthenware clay oven – greatest of all time
February 23, 2026
What?
The Mason Cash Earthenware clay oven (£26.99, Ocado) is a non-vitreous earthenware vessel with a lid. Cooking in a presoaked pot generates a high-humidity atmosphere, preserving nutrients and enhancing flavor.
Why?
This isn’t common for garden cooking. It’s watery…
Kitchen gadgets review: the Egg Master – a horrifying, unholy affair
February 23, 2026
What? The Egg Master (£29.99, DecentGadget, Amazon) is a vertical grill encased in silicone housing. Ingredients poured into the plastic tube are heated by an embedded, wraparound element. When ready, food spontaneously rises from the device.
Why? Because there is no…
For architects, cars are the stars
February 23, 2026
If Norman Foster’s design for a new London bus to replace the Routemaster really does happen in 2012, it’ll be a first. Not the first London bus to ever arrive on time, but the first time an architect has successfully designed a motor vehicle. The fact is, while…
Automobile clubs consider leaving the FIA
February 23, 2026
The automobile clubs that called for Max Mosley to resign as president of the FIA were last night digesting the governing body’s decision to keep the 68-year-old in his post and warned they could ultimately decide to leave the organization.
Following the Allgemeiner…
Given its heavy reliance on raw materials and legislative duties that emphasize the reuse and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, Europe’s automotive industry is perfectly positioned to accelerate the agenda around closed-loop thinking.
Renault’s Choisy-le-Roi…
Hitler's car exerts grim fascination even if it just gave the Führer a lift to the airport
February 23, 2026
It’s a warm, dry afternoon in the mountains of Coto de Caza, a gated community located an hour’s drive southeast of Los Angeles, and Major General William Lyon is showing me a used car. “It’s wonderful to drive,” he says. “As though it were new.”
Parked in…