How do you get ridiculously long and massively heavy electrical poles to your construction site without hiring an expensive, purpose-built transport truck? If you’re in China, DIY! Workmen in Wenzhou get their poles to the holes quickly, cheaply and one-at-a-time thanks to a little ingenuity and some very loose traffic regulations.
Ever drive into New York City? Most people don’t, unless they have a garage space for $750 a month. The odds of finding an available parking
space in NYC are about as high as winning the Mega
Millions. But Adrian Bone of Lewes, England, has invented a ‘Parking
Patch’ he hopes will solve two parking issues in Brighton, a city south
of London on the English Channel, a city far smaller than NYC or
London. But first Brighton, then the world!
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited, famed for its high performance GT sports cars favored by the likes of James Bond, reckons its future lies far to the east of MI6 headquarters in the garages of China’s rich and famous. The super-luxury 4×4 Lagonda SUV is expected to cost a pretty moneypenny and would likely leave 007 shaken, not stirred.
Cross your heart and hope to… live? In an effort to ensure the often bumpy road to romance gets off to a smooth start, the Chinese city of Chengdu has provided a Love Zebra Crossing painted up in lovely red & white.
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