http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:53:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/do-modern-products-have-good-enough-to-allow-for-collaborative-consumption.html Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:14:10 +0000 As we stared at a flat tire on our Parisian shared-bike, we wondered whether stuff is created these days to be overly used. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/sobi-needs-your-help-to-bring-bike-sharing-to-nyc.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:30:06 +0000 Social Bikes looks for public financial assistance on Kickstarter to launch its pilot fleet in NYC this fall. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/google-explores-a-pedal-powered-public-monorail-system.html Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:50:31 +0000 The company is funding a user-powered transportation system as a way to explore innovation in public transit. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/infographic-sharing-is-contagious.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:41:53 +0000 Author Rachel Botsman explores the rise of digital sharing from the 1960's to 2010.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/sobi-social-bicycle-system.html Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:04:19 +0000 A bike sharing service currently in development will integrate authorization, tracking, and security systems with individual bikes.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/socialmobile-bike-sharing-concept.html Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:34:17 +0000 The Samsung Freecycle concept envisions a mobile/social system where bikes are connected to each other and riders wirelessly.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/b-cycle-bike-sharing-comes-to-denver.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:41:42 +0000 Crispin Porter + Bogusky  has teamed up with health care company Humana and Trek bicycles to bring bike sharing to Denver. Named B-cycle, the program has been tested and fine-tuned around the country, and should be up and running in Denver by the summer. The one-size-fits-all bikes are picked up and dropped off at a solar powered corral, and are most likely going to be free for the first half hour. Members pay for the additional time with a credit card or their B-cycle membership card. [B-Cycle via Fast Company]]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/modular-transportation-electric-scooter-sharing.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:52:08 +0000 Anton Grimes’ entry into the Australian Design Awards competition is a smart twist on the increasingly popular bike sharing idea. He’s created a much more compact system for sharing electric scooters in urban areas. Grimes explains his design: The Link scooter system is designed as a modular transport solution that can be retrofitted to existing Streetscape Smart Poles. It allows users to hire a small lightweight electronic scooter from a hub and ride to the desired destination and then return the scooter to another hub, where it is recharged. The use of existing light poles reduces the cost of theRead more...]]>