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A fertility clinic in Copenhagen wanted an easy way to transport biological materials in insulated storage through the city, and so commissioned the construction of the Sperm Bullitt:
The Sperm Bike is, like the company’s sperm donations, a Danish product and constructed around the Danish Bullitt cargo bike from Larry vs Harry.
Producing the Sperm Bike was no easy task. It was constructed by the Danish company 10 Tons – who specialise in zoological and botanical models as well as paleontologic reconstructions, including full-size whales and dinosaurs.
With the tail, the bike is 2.9 metres long and fully-loaded with… um… sperm… it weighs 50 kg. About the same as my cargo bike with two kids and a bag of groceries.
If you scroll to the bottom of the linked article, you can find links to images of other unique custom cargo bikes built by the same company.
Link via Marginal Revolution | Photo: Copenhagenize
Researchers at MIT developed the Copenhagen Wheel — an electric motor that they say can attach to almost any bicycle. The team says:
There is no external wiring or bulky battery packs, making it retrofittable into any bike. Inside the hub, we have arranged a motor, 3-speed internal hub gear, batteries, a torque sensor, GPRS and a sensor kit that monitors CO, NOx, noise (db), relative humidity and temperature. In the future, you will be able to spec out your wheel according to your riding habits and needs.
Users can also dock a smartphone to the Copenhagen Wheel to control how much assistance the electric motor provides.
A strange crop circle? A screenshot from the latest SimCity computer game? Nay, take a look at the larger pic over at Clear Perspectives and you’ll see one of the strangest suburbs ever.
Link | In Google Maps – Thanks JD!
Denmark’s iconic statue of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid normally sits in the Copenhagen Harbor, but left last week for temporary residence at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. On April Fool’s Day, she returned -as a skeleton! The skeleton display was made from human bones and a swordfish skeleton, according to Hanne Strager, the head of exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Her skeleton replacement was introduced to the media in a prank statement that said the Little Mermaid “had returned”.
The statement claimed it was the only remaining complete skeleton of a “Hydronymphus pesci”, a species said to be extinct since the end of the 17th century.
It claimed to have acquired the remains at the beginning of the 18th century, and that the only other skeleton of the specimen, in Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage museum, was “not as complete as Copenhagen’s” because of its missing tail.
After basking in the Copenhagen sun for two hours, the fake skeleton was returned to the museum where it would be displayed during the Easter holidays, Strager said.
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This may look like a snake attack, but it’s actually an ad on a bus inviting everyone to the Copenhagen Zoo. Link -via J-Walk Blog
As ministers, representatives, and journalists from around the world gather in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, rental car firms are having difficulty providing enough limos to meet the demand:
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen.
The local airport is expecting so many private jets that there will be no room to park them; the jets will have to fly to Sweden or other regional sites and then return later for their passengers.
