Beer and Bikes: Can science build a true hybrid?

Yesterday, we were coveting this cool new contraption that made its American debut at the US Open. What is it? It's a keg of beer in a backpack, with cooler and CO2 compressor! (Plus the device has got the most awesome name ever: It's called a "Major Tom.")

But today, we see in the morning papers that the British -- hail Brittania! -- have built a bicycle with an "onboard refrigerator."

Combining energy from the sun, wind and the cyclist's legwork, the bike can power an onboard refrigerator that will dispense ice-cold bottles of water for the rider alongside other energy saving devices.

Heh heh. "Ice-cold bottles of water." Yeah right.

Warm water has never been a really widespread point of pain for cyclists. But warm beer? That's a significant worldwide plague.