Wednesday 12th November 2014

The world’s first glow-in-the-dark bike path opened. Artist Daan Roosegaarde recreated “The Starry Night” in the form of the Van Gogh-Roosegaarde Bicycle Path between Eindhoven and Neunen in the Netherlands, marked with bright stones that glowed in the night and arranged in the same pattern as the stars from the 19th Century painting. The stones had smart coatings that charged throughout the daytime and lit the trail at night for up to eight hours. A solar panel was also used to charge the trail on days when there was little sunlight.