Extremely cool article. Only one point I disagree wih with

Many people assume that handcarts go on the road, with the cars, or on the cycling path. That’s not the case: you use it on the sidewalk.

Jean Merrill documented The Pushcart War about this exact allocation of road space. Push carts belong on the road, don't let car propaganda tell you otherwise.

Caveat: i say this from a systems perspective that cart SHOULD be on the road. Not a personal safety perspective where one might want to take the sidewalk.

"rediscovering"!

when was it forgotten?

The site has a feed! That's great :D

I love this. It's really practical for a city. Though I'm wondering about the sail idea now on more rural roads. Roads turn this way and that, and the wind shifts. You'd need someone sitting in the thing orienting the sail. I wonder if you made it a little larger with a largish sail and you had a driver on roller blades and a sailor sitting in it catching the wind how fast could you get it going? Depends on the wind, I guess, but a boat probably has more friction in the water and sailboats go pretty fast.

Ooh, maybe you could add an outrigger, a pole that slides left and right with a wheel on either side, to keep it from tipping.

Joke's on you, we never undiscovered the handcart. Or horse carts. Or ox carts. Or four-wheeled carts used by hawkers. Or four-wheeled carts with a motorcycle embedded in it. Or a bicycle-drawn cart. Or a bicycle-pushed cart. Or a cart some insane dude frankensteined together with a diesel generator to make the buggy of doom.

We have a detachable bike trailer (2 big wheels and a tiny one in the front), that we're using as a handcart and/or stroller when taking short trips to the grocery store/supermarket. I can confirm it works well!

Rediscovering? I see people using hand carts of various sorts all the time. Thoug most without a sail, that is kinda cool.

Need to move 40 concrete blocks around my house to dispose of them? Wheelbarrow makes it only a tiring job rather than completely exhausting!

Very cool article

People in Germany use personal shopping trolleys, bike carts and kindergarten carts (hand-carried with seats for children inside) a lot.

Yeh. Don’t mind it but have to agree handcarts do still exist and are used in many forms. This article kinda ignores that. I’d like to see more on how people have evolved the product rather than pushing a new design.

The photos drive me crazy. The artistic styling or tone of voice of imagery loses a lot of the detail. Design is the bling…message is the king.

It feels like an art assignment rather than an article.