Flickr bike?
Wow, this is really cool – Gina from Lifehacker has a Flickr bike that geotags photos and uploads them to a map on Flickr… Solar panels too!
Bicycles
Bounce bike…
Popular Mechanics, 1935… Functioning on the principle of an eccentric rear wheel, the latest bicycle has neither gears nor a chain. Invented by Phil Huyseng of Chicago, the bike is propelled by a bouncing motion of the body. But wait, there’s more! Here’s one from “New Ideas for Living” (above) – the site says it […]
FlashBack: Backpack with integrated LED’s
Fall is a great time to ride your bike, and this LED modification will add an enormous amount of safety to your next trip. I often ride bikes that end up not having working LED flashers, either because it’s a friends bike who doesn’t believe in safety, mountain bike, or the batteries are dead again. […]
Leather & snakeskin MIDI controller wearable
NYC electronic artist Rucyl Mills hacked an M-Audio USB MIDI controller into the fashionably wearable Elektro-07 music controller – I built the elektro-07 so I could control the sonic and visual parameters of my live performances without having to look deep into the eye of my laptop, hunched over in computer music stance. I’m still […]
Odd bikes
Nice collection of odd bikes… via Land-o-Links.
Make your own low-budget wheel truing stand
Before you go out on a long bike ride you may want to true up your wheels. This truing stand is super cheap to make, and truing your wheels can really make a difference on your next bicycle trip. Read more about Making your own low-budget wheel truing stand More: HOW TO – Make a […]
QR code dress will let you scan potential mates
This “Sema-Code Dress” by game-artist Marguerite Charmante (along with Wolfgeng Peter Schmiller) puts a typical QR code on the surface of the dress so that makes it possible to “scan” your potential dates before you ask them out. Not sure if this makes the most dating sense, but we still like the idea of integrating […]