Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Bike Computer Review
If you stripped an urban bike-sharing system down to its bare essentials and tossed in a healthy dose of technology, you might end up with SoBi , the “social bicycle system.” SoBi uses a gizmo that fastens to the back of any bike and functions as a lock, a GPS unit, and a bike computer. With a SoBi account, you can use a mobile app (of course) to find an available bike nearby. When you’re done …
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Posted on August 10th, 2010 by Bike Computer Review
The application for a smart bike reads like a description of a connected bike computer; that is, it collects the same data many inexpensive bike computers capture, but can share it among devices.
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Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Bike Computer Review
Applea gadget-making company you may have heard ofhas filed a patent for a “Smart Bicycle System.” No, it doesn’t look like Apple is building a bike itself. The patent suggests it’s developing a system of bike-mounted sensors and software that can turn your iPhone or iPod into a sophisticated bike computer. Gathering data from sensors on the forks, cranks, and elsewhere, the system could be …
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Posted on August 9th, 2010 by Bike Computer Review
If we saw a patent for an iPod Touch with a camcorder, we wouldn’t bat an eyelash. A Mac with a touchscreen? Unremarkable. But we did a double take when we read that Apple filed a patent for a smart bike. The company, known more for its must-have consumer gadgets than any niche products, has imagined a smart bicycle system that would let users communicate electronically with other cyclists …
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Posted on August 7th, 2010 by Bike Computer Review
If you’re like me, you’re now imagining how cool it would be to have a personal Asimo to ride doubles with, or at the least, a scrolling, handlebar-mounted red light with the voice of William Daniels. It doesn’t look like Apple’s ready to go that far yet, but on August 5th, Apple filed a patent [...]
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