(from the Chronicle) "Best Office Space & Commute- Inspired by a discarded baby jogger, local artist and alternative technologist David Santos sculpted an entirely green and mobile office by lashing together the baby jogger, solar panel, laptop, video cam, umbrella, and lawn chair. The pastoral Webmaster has trekked over 1,000 miles of Austin, pushing the cart and seeking his muse in the details of the urban and natural landscape that can only be detected at 4mph."

Smart Solar Cart

Running Technomadics- Lite Wilderness & Deep Urban Trekking

Solar Cart shown alongside Barton Creek

"Caretilla Coahuiltejana"

(Coahuiltexan Wheelbarrow)

(Inspired by the old nomadic culture of South Texas)

The modern office hits the trail-

A humanoid biped pushing or pulling a wheel barrow is a powerful combination. China is the both earliest and highest known development of this concept, historical examples of which carried up to a ton or more. The wheel barrow remains common in construction and gardening, and we see the poor pushing shopping carts with everything they own, alongside new parents pushing their children along running trails in high tech prams. There is a tradition in my family that an ancestor, George Slaughter pulled a cart from North Carolina to settle in Mexican Tejas.

Another Texan, N. Bleecker Green, built a portable solar power plant as a self contained unit that wheels around his homestead with 12 volt power for emergency lights, tools, and appliances.

This work owes much to pioneers who were tied to good roads as long as the technology was awkward, big, and heavy (see "Behemoth"). As technology becomes fully "wearable", the mountain bike will claim a large territory, but at this moment, on a modest budget, a handcart goes almost anywhere and carries more.