MIT Develops Copenhagen Wheel for bicycles Incorporating KERS

Thought this may interest a few of you. A research team from MIT is
borrowing the KERS idea from F1 and incorporating it into a bicycle
wheel. Sensors measure and collect data as you ride, such as noise
level and pollution and builds a profile over time to give you
directions on which areas are better for cycling than others.

All sensors and gadgetry for kinetic energy recovery is based inside
this wheel. I hear the team is going to show this to heads of state at
the Copenhagen Climate Conference tomorrow.

Here's a press release :
http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenw...essRelease.pdf

MIT Sensable Lab website showing wheel design :
http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/wheel.html

Is KERS something novel or already been tried before?


-Ron