Claudio Mendonca » sustainability http://www.claudiomendonca.com Graphic Designer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:36:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Montreal's Bike Sharing Program http://www.claudiomendonca.com/montreals-bike-sharing-program/ http://www.claudiomendonca.com/montreals-bike-sharing-program/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:41:20 +0000 Cláudio http://theimagenation.wordpress.com/?p=307 This is old news, but it is so awesome, that is worth talking about it again.

bikelooker

Montreal inaugurated a bike sharing program that shows the world how humans must think for now on. ( or must have been thinking for a long time )

You have a “Bike user card”, and use it to take the bike out of its bay. You ride that bike to your destity, and park it again at the nearest Bike Bay. While that bike was moving, it was generating eletric energy with a dynamo. When you park it, it will automatically discharge that battery to the bay. The energy will go the Bike Sharing Program net, to charge the eletric batteries of several busses that are linked to the Bikes program. Great isn’t it? The riders fuel the bus.

It gets even better, because you used your personal bike card, the system knows who rode each bike, and therefore knows if you generate enough energy to ride the bus for free. Awesome!

I know it’s a bit confusing, and I didn’t explained it very well, but you can check the detailed information at NYTimes.

via BMD Blog

]]> http://www.claudiomendonca.com/montreals-bike-sharing-program/feed/ 0 Everything can't be perfect… http://www.claudiomendonca.com/everything-cant-be-perfect/ http://www.claudiomendonca.com/everything-cant-be-perfect/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:54:28 +0000 Cláudio http://theimagenation.wordpress.com/?p=33 I’m a mac lover. I’ve been using Macs since I got my Quadra 605. OS9 Classic was much better than Windows, but not much prettier. I’ve used PCs for games only since then, and I hate it. After OSX, many things have changed, it;s all beautifull now, with cool animations, and all. I’m using Leopard right now, and I love it. There is one thing that I’m deeply disapointed with Apple. I use a 10 year-old Logitech mouse on my Macbook Pro, and it works great. I have used the Apple Mice ( wireless and wired versions ) at least 2 of each recent models, and all of them are malfunctioning. The Same feature of the mouse doesn’t survive the heavy use. That tiny awesome ball that scrolls for every side you want. It just stops working. It has happenned with 4 units until now.

The mouse is beautifull, but can’t survive heavy daily use. Logitech can survive for 10 years. Without a scratch.

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