it'd make a lot more sense if you could clip it to your handlebars and use it as a sat nav :O_o1:
Still, looks like a nice bike - I'd buy one and sell the tab to help fund the purchase ;)
A fixed-gear bike and a top-tube-mounted tablet? Hmm, that sounds awfully precarious to me.
It may work in South Korea but, as the article says, I'd be reticent to ride a tablet-equipped bike anywhere near where I live.
I'm thinking a £5 rucksack might just do a better job.
Tarinder
A fixed-gear bike and a top-tube-mounted tablet? Hmm, that sounds awfully precarious to me.
It may work in South Korea but, as the article says, I'd be reticent to ride a tablet-equipped bike anywhere near where I live.
I'm thinking a £5 rucksack might just do a better job.
I would have to agree with Tarinder, it wouldn't last 5 minutes on my local roads.
its a fixed gear bicycle aka tardcycle. the people who buy those are so chronically retarded they aren't going to have any qualms about damaging a tablet.
It appears capable of cycling over water. Apple may have trademarked the Jesus phone, perhaps Samsung are hitting back with the Jesus bike?
it looks like the front tire maybe full of helium as it appears to want to fly away maybe thats how it rides over water. No more puddle water in your mouth that would be cool
Is it a fixy, or just a single speed? Most fixies don't come with front *and* rear brakes, in my experience…
That said, I actually prefer gears on my bike - justa few, but nevertheless, sometimes I want to bike up a hill, and sometimes I want to bike *really* fast. Single speeds just don't cut it for me…
I had a single speed once, but I did get bored of it once the stabalisers were taken off.
Thing is this is just a stupidly impractical thing, even cycling round a clean uni campus would get it covered in crap…
Does pedal-power recharges the tablet?
duc
Does pedal-power recharges the tablet?
That is a top point.
duc
Does pedal-power recharges the tablet?
What? In case you're cycling long enough for the tablet to lose it's battery charge?
Even if you were using it regularly, you'd have to be out for HOURS to run the battery down enough to warrant a charging bike!
cameronlite
What? In case you're cycling long enough for the tablet to lose it's battery charge?
Even if you were using it regularly, you'd have to be out for HOURS to run the battery down enough to warrant a charging bike!
Presumably it would lose charge all the time you're using it away from the bike, ie the office or where ever. Then at the end of the day you cycle home and charge it up again.
Didn't one of the phone companies do a bike charger for their phones so you could use them as GPS with 3G data etc. That pulls charge out of a smartphone like nobody's business, and having a dynamo charger would make a lot of sense… ;)
April fool's all ready ???
What a simply ridiculous concept. Bet there's even a “we don't accept liability for your Galaxy” clause too.
Daft as cheese.
You can do this with a dynamo (i.e. bike lights) and a USB outlet on any bike. That would be genuinely useful!
Whiternoise
You can do this with a dynamo (i.e. bike lights) and a USB outlet on any bike. That would be genuinely useful!
You'd need to full wave rectify, smooth, and voltage regulate the outut, so not entirely straightforward. But definitely do-able. I still don't know why we haven't seen more wheel-driven dynamo lights with battery backup tbh. The technology is obviously mature enough to handle that now, and it'd remove the big downside to dynamo lights (i.e. they only shine when you're moving ;) ). It'd be a fairly natural enhancement of that to include a USB charging port…
I just attach a rope to my tablet and drag it along behind. I can't see the need for this at all. This is since I upgrade to military hardware though. Before that, with my old tablet, I had to gaffa tape it to my dog which ran behind and was fine too until this one time it rolled in dead hedgehog or something and my tablet stunk and got like these maggots in it. I think the dog knew that Apple lawyers were on our scent so I can't complain too much as I got to keep the illegal device and evaded capture.
I suppose this would be good extra protection for my old tablet but as a bundle I think the bike needs some hub gears Alphine 11 speed and discs. ‘Tardcycles’ are for weirdos that are into artistic cycling and if you don't know what that is you're lucky not to have had your mind poisoned with images and ideas that scar for life.