LifeBeam will insert sensors within cycling headgear, letting you capture measurements as you pedal up hills and down city streets.

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In other news, pedal-powered transportation geared up for the future as we showcased a chain-less hybrid bike with an out-of-this-world design and a molded bamboo bike that is grown from the ground up.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week In Green: solar-powered stadium, bipod flying cars and biofueled flights

Is your local government running a deficit and looking for new sources of revenue? (If you live in the U.S., the answer is almost certainly yes.) Then maybe you should lighten up on the gas pedal during your commute.

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There are those stand-up-and-pedal, thigh-burning sprints.

FORBES: The Fortune That Lies Within

Remember, it was in the midst of Q4 that we thousands of Prius and other model owners lined up for brake and brake pedal repairs while executives explained internal memos about the need to delay publication of the discovered defects in these models at public hearings.

FORBES: Toyota And Wreckonomic Justice

Be sure to go easy on the gas pedal, particularly if your travels take you up or down the East Coast.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Georgia introduced assignee liability, only to back-pedal after the state's subprime market started to seize up.

ECONOMIST: Securitisation

To start her show, Madonna emerged from a giant glitter ball to sing first number Hung Up, dressed in an all-purple ensemble of jacket, velvet pedal pushers and knee-high boots.

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