Oh man. If a LiveRider is anywhere near as great as it looks, afterwards it’s starting to sell rounded off a single zillion units. It’s the hardware/software combo that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a cycling mechanism, and it looks pretty prohibited.

First, a hardware. It comprises the frame-mounted sensor that cable-ties onto a chainstay as well as senses speed as well as intonation via magnets trustworthy to the circle as well as crank. This beams its info around 2.4 GHz RF to a dongle plugged in to a iPhone. The iPhone itself sits cosy in a shock-absorbing handlebar-mount.

You afterwards glow up a giveaway messenger app as well as get entrance to all the common interpretation: speed, intonation, calories burnt as well as so upon, though on the big shade as well as in easy-to-view color. If you have GPS in your iDevice, it will additionally use that to let you know where you have been.

My favorite underline is called “Chase Rider”, and it is similar to nothing so most as the ghost-driver underline in Super Mario Kart. It will remember past rides and play them behind so you can competition against your own most appropriate times. Neat.

The total setup weighs in during only 3-ounces, as well as costs the very in accord with $100. You will, of course, need to supply your own iPhone (everything fits solely a first and final iPhones). Available right away.

LiveRider [New Potato Tech]