This is what you get when you fuse a Segway and a futuristic monocycle. The result might very well be the Yike Bike, the name given to this curious method of transportation that is already on the market for 2,000$.

Its creators, Peter Higgins and Lincoln Sell, won the HiFX Innovative Hi-Tech Services Product Award 2011, in the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.

Best of all is its design, as it can be folded completely and comfortably. It also has a seat that will make your journeys much more comfortable.

Better take a look and see it in action.

Maria Mazariegos from ideas4all

You can now view your ideas4all activity within GNOSS, the knowledge network, and vice versa. This will allow users of both networks to check on their latest activity in both social networks in a way that is completely integrated.

Connecting profiles in both networks is very simple. Here are the easy steps you will need to follow.

In order to connect your profiles in ideas4all, follow these steps:
- Register or sign in to ideas4all with your user name and password.
- Access ‘My profile’, which you will find under the Personal tab in the Menu bar.
- At the bottom of the “Recommended Applications” list, you will find a GNOSS image next to a “Connect” button; Click on “Connect”.
- Lastly, finalize the process by clicking on “Send”.

You are now connected. If you want to see the GNOSS widget, go to “My Page” under the Personal tab.

If you wish to connect your profiles in GNOSS, follow these steps:
- Register or sign in to GNOSS with your user name and password.
- Access ‘My profile’ (on the top left of the page) and click ‘Edit profile’.
- In your profile’s edit menu, go to ‘Websites’ and follow the instructions under section ‘Recommended website: ideas4all’. The application will request permission to access using your user name and password, and will include the widget with your ideas4all activity in your personal profile.

Truman Capote said:

“Everybody can be creative.
Most people, however, never realize they are.”

It is true, we really are all creative. Even if you think creativity is not your thing, all you need to do is foster the elements that favor its appearance.

Here is a short list of books on the subject of creativity that will give you tips, ideas, and will awaken your curiosity, to remind you of the ideas you might have if you only let our mind be a little more creative.

Think, it´s free
Written by publicist Joaquín Lorente, this brief yet intense book has been a success, thanks to the 84 practical ideas it offers, to foster the talent we all have and try to obtain success in whatever we aim at. You can download the first three principles from the official website.

Ideas to have Ideas
A book that teaches us creative formulas that will help us have ideas and express them in a way that is convincing to our audience. A good book for designers, publicists, screenwriters and communicators in general, it will teach you how to be creative, even if you have no imagination at all.

Ideas for professionals who think
The author, Edward De Bono, was also responsible for the famous concept of “lateral thinking”, and is one of the most renowned experts on creativity in the world. In this book, he teaches us to find the time we need in order to think, but above all he shows us alternatives to the normal logical thought process.

Creativity 62 Exercises to Develop the Mind
Another good work by Edward De Bono, here the reader will find 62 games that foster creativity and lateral thinking.

The Secrets of Creative Geniuses
The author, Michael Michalko, explains in his book how we can have more ideas and be far more creative, and does so by analyzing some of the most creative personalities in history: Leonardo da Vinci,  Walt Disney, Pablo Picasso or Thomas Edison.

Good Ideas: a Natural History of Innovation
This essay by Steven Johnson searches through the sources of creativity and carries out an in-depth analysis of the characteristics that encourage creative environments: cities, cafés or coral reefs, for the author, are all platforms for innovation.

Making Ideas Happen
Lastly, this book by Scott Belsky is not really a book on how to have ideas, but rather on how to make them become reality. The inscription on the cover reads “Overcoming The Obstacles Between Vision & Reality”, and the fact is that many ideas are lost along the way because we just don’t know how to make them come true.

Maria Mazariegos fromideas4all

The extension means you now have one more month, until February 17, to participate in the Big Bang Apps competition and develop your own application, tool or game to squeeze up to the last drop of fun out of ideas4all, for free.

Remember the Jury will award these 3 prizes:

1st Prize, 3000$
2nd Prize, 2000$
3rd Prize, 1000$

And ten 200$ prizes for the applications that receive the most Community votes.

All you need to do is request access to ideas4all’s API, which you can do here, and begin programming. If you require any help or have queries regarding development, you can reach us at api@ideas4all.com.

Here is all the information on prizes and participation requirements.
What are you waiting for!

The proposal (567) Transport a million books and school material to Latin America suggested by user bradstrich, a Telepizza employee, has become reality two years later. Bradstrich suggested that return trips on pizza deliveries be used for charitable purposes. Clients could give used books to their delivery person, who would take them back in their motorbike… to the restaurant, where they would be stored.

This magnificent idea will become reality, and we want to take text and reading books to over 98,000 Colombian children and teenagers who are in a difficult economic situation. We have made the announcement today, alongside Iberia and Telepizza.

The campaign “Books for Colombia” begins today, January 10 and ends on February 10, 2012. In Colombia, NGO Buena Nota will be in charge of distributing the books to over 120 schools and libraries.

If you wish to cooperate with the campaign, you can donate books that are no longer in use but are in good condition to your Telepizza delivery person, after you have ordered a home delivery, or can donate them directly in any of the Telepizza establishments participating in the campaign.

All the books will be stored and sent to Colombia using Iberia airplanes. Once they have made it to their destination, NGO Buena Nota will be responsible for their classification and later distribution in 120 libraries and schools throughout the country, where they will have a second life.

Although the campaign will initially only be implemented in Telepizza’s establishments within the Autonomous Region of Madrid, it will soon be expanded to other areas of Spain.

We encourage you to participate and contribute, with your books, to make this idea become reality and join us in successfully helping others!

We’re kicking the New Year off in a robotic mood, ready to design the robot of your dreams. Imagine what it would be like, we’re sure we all have our ideal robot in mind, if we only put our minds to it.

What kind of functions would you give it? What would it be useful for? How about a robot to help with the cooking, to watch over your house, take care of the kids, do your gardening…?

Think of your perfect technological buddy. There’s no limit to what they could do!

You can participate from January 9 to 30.
Here’s all the information you need.

We are extending the Solidarity Area campaign, 90million90days, until this coming January 7, which means you still have time to donate your ideas and let ideas4all transform them into euros, while we all join the fight against poverty in the horn of Africa.

Over 200 ideas have been donated already, and we want to encourage you to do the same; participate and cooperate with your ideas for this good cause, remember that every idea you donate will be transformed by ideas4all into 1 euro.

You can donate your ideas here.

Another year flies by at ideas4all! We want to share our ideas4all Top 10 to sum up this fantastic 2011

Here they are!

There is not a moment to lose for ideas4all, and after the end of November’s Challenge of the Month: Ideas for citizens to participate in the media with 80 ideas shared by ideators, the new Challenge of the Month is already here: How are you celebrating Christmas?

Until December 31, we encourage you to participate by sharing with the entire ideas4all Community how you will be celebrating this Christmas in your country, your home, with your family and friends …

There are many ideas that others might be able to use to celebrate their own Christmas in a different way this year.

Come on and chip in!
Here’s all the information you need.