Wanna Ride?? This one shall prove to be an eco-friendly one with an inveterate entertainment. Yahoo’s newest bike is a complete showstopper. Armed with solar panel, a GPS enabled mobile phone hidden and a script to constantly take pictures at 60 seconds, this bike will be able to map out route that you take (and geotagged it properly) and upload to Flicker account instantly. Beneath the installation on the bikes, there is a Nokia N95 (based on the meta tag found on the pictures), a Solar panels which power the camera phone and Custom Python script installed on the phone which fires off the shutter every 60 seconds while the phone’s accelerometer detects that you’re in motion, and uploads the resulting photo with geotags to the bike’s Flickr account.

Being launched as a part of the company’s new “Start Wearing Purple” marketing campaign, this does have a feminine angle to it but it is well-equipped with valuables to attract men as well. Though initially starting from San Fransico and New York, these bikes would soon be pedaling around the world in countries such as Singapore, Denmark and the U.K.



If this happens to interest you, you can actually download the software to your symbian phone and capture the images yourself.
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This exclusively designed eco phone labeled Samsung E200 Eco is one step ahead of its earlier launched two eco friendly models which were crafted out of corn extorted bioplastics. The intact casing of this mobile phone has been made out of ecological and nature friendly biodegradable stuff. Additionally the packaging and covering material employed for this green novelty would also be recycled and castoff matter. As far as design and specs are concerned this gadget doesn’t appears to be a classy and trendy picking for today’s age group yet its green worth would be perceptibly accepted by grave and sober eco activists as it is ingrained with all the indispensable features like 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 support, and video messaging capabilities.

This innovative phone embracing outstandingly green features lately showcased by Samsung would be accessible at the outset in Europe in the forthcoming month and would hopefully take hold of the greener side of the mobile phone industry out there.

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