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Friday, June 20, 2008

Put your cell phone to work while you ride

Sound In Motion has created a new bluetooth device that can turn your cellphone into a cyclometer. Here's the idea: A wheel sensor that is allegedly 360 times more accurate than typical sensors (and 2000 times more accurate than GPS) attaches to your bike and networks with your bluetooth-enabled celly or blackberry, thus turning that dead weight in your pocket into a useful device measuring speed, distance, and so on.


Most people who are anal about this sort of data already have cyclometers mounted permanently on their handlebars, of course, along with heart rate monitors, watt meters, inclinometers, rain guages, and whatnot. But I can see Sound In Motion appealing to my specific demographic: Half-assed weekend warriors who kinda want to know what our numbers are, but kinda don't either.

It also will appeal to the "clean lines" snobs who believe that a naked bike is a beautiful bike. That's an extreme POV that I don't agree with generally, except for what I've come to call "bikenutz" -- those unfortunate, ubiquitous scrotal sacs that hang beneath the saddle and look ridiculous.





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