All posts tagged: bike

Connected bike grips provide tactile feedback for navigation

August 29, 2015
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Ever tried to ride the bike finding your path by staring at your smartphone’s map app in one hand, the other hand trying to keep the bike on track? I keep being intrigued by ways to bring the real-time and location-based information potential of the smartphone into our physical environment to interact with, without having to use a (touch-)display as an interface. And this is a good example: bike handles that you simply mount onto […]

Public bike speedometer

August 25, 2015
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From the size of this device it is clear what people in Graz seem to believe to be the biggest speeding threat in town. The looming perennial question is: will this become the new go-to destination to measure speed records publicly? This interactive signage is positioned in what is a ‘shared street’ for both bikers and pedestrians only. Increasingly, in this particular street, fast bikers get i to conflict with not-so-fast pedestrians, with both getting […]