Flipa!!

O sea, es lo más fuerte y heavy e impresionante y categóricamente alucinante que he visto en lo que va de año. ¿Qué podemos esperar en el futuro, si en un campo tan mecánicamente sencillo como el de una bicicleta se pueden hacer cosas así?



Good news for cyclists who dream of becoming one with their bikes: Toyota is developing a bicycle operated by mind control. Yep, you read that right. The Prius project concept bike, a collaboration between Toyota and Parlee Cycles, will feature mind-control shifting through the use of an EEG powered helmet.
Imagine yourself in a higher gear, and the bike shifts up. Imagine shifting down, and the bike immediately complies. No word yet on what happens if you compulsively imagine crash scenarios, but presumably the brainwave helmet designers at Deeplocal have that accounted for. And onlookers will just assume you’re a master of the Force.
A Fast Company Design post breaks it down like this: “After a ten-minute “training” session that tells the system how to distinguish “shift up” from “shift down” (or “I want a sandwich”), the helmet will reliably send the appropriate signal to the PXP’s electric derailleur. “When you see the bike shift for the first time, it’s kind of like magic,” Matthew Pegula, Deeplocal Lead Engineer, tells Co.Design. “It’s also interesting because we were able to build all of this with off-the-shelf components and some custom software to glue everything together. That means that we’re not too far off from this being commercially viable.”
So far the bike is being pitched as just a design exercise, though. And with a built-in smartphone dock and integrated stem and brakes, the sleek-looking “concept cycle” is certainly getting a lot of attention from design blogs. Could this be the future of bike technology? And is anyone else afraid the bikes will develop independent thought and rise up to overthrow us?