iPad Sprocket Pocket makes us feel like little girls (video)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 16th 2010 6:13AM
posted April 16th 2010 6:13AM
posted April 16th 2010 6:13AM
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@Des Glass shrapnel through the back FTW...
Integrate this with GPS and route plan so that every knowns of your right turn in 500 meters ... 200 meters ... 50 meters ... now
@Tombio Improving a useless idea to making it almost useful, hmmm "to +1 or to not +1, that is the question." Then again, this uses a-gps instead of gps so it might not be terribly accurate and would kill the battery (though I don't think that would persuade me into saying it's a bad idea).
i should be animated!!!
@fuesse
i was!
@C3PO
Oh dear! An impostor! Alert Master Luke at once!
lol
@fuesse
You should?!?
They're iPad owners.
Nuff said.
Excuse me
*vomit
Never mention Microsofts Stylus Tablets again... its an iPad with a capacitive multitouch screen and (read) Good Software.
The reason people go crazy of these things is because puts its passion into the product, whereas MS just throws sh*t at the wall and sees what sticks.
good way for thieves to find out you have an ipad and just in reporting live stolen ipad rates rise as new popular app lazy turn has been a big bright billboard to thieve where also sad to report one death reported in these incident during a robbery where the person did not want to give up there ipad its a sad week...
Good video plus the good article certainly made this segment amazing.Keep it up!
green planet
ROFL... fail.
PS: The iPad is not a "computer" anymore than a smartphone is (which is what it is, minus some features, but plus a big screen/battery).
Man this will really earn you some cool points with the ladies.
/s
@Eternity
LMFAO!
Only if there Max IPad users too.
And then there was the day that Johnny loaded the iPad into his sprocket Pocket upside down.
...he gets out of intensive care tomorrow...
@0998c0ad
Could be done intentionally to throw off pursuers... "He's turning left!"
So, without thinking, I lean a bit to the left (stiff neck or something). Seeing the display, the driver of the car behind me starts to go around me to the right. I then begin the right turn I'd intended, and end up as sashimi.
Without feedback visible to the rider, this thing is suicidal. Thus it joins the (very) long list of "just because it can be done, doesn't mean that it should be done", which applies to at least half of what gets reported on here.
In any case, I already resent all the things in my life that try to control my every little movement. Why would I want to add another?
I love cycling, but this is just a silly idea.
As pointed out, you're turning _before_ you signal so it doesn't work as intended, likewise you sit up to stretch and tell the world you're about to stop..
I'd be worried about getting cleared up by drivers distracted by the screen.
I'd also be wary of getting sideswiped then mugged for the iPad.
If you want to turn your bike into Art there are more inventive ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtbeU8FJW0&feature=player_embedded#!
I'm more curious about the episode of SNL's Sprockets going on at the stop sign!
@lekoguy
this is the part of Sprockets where we dance.
@Lois Einhorn
Would you like to touch my monkey? TOUCH IT!
Looks like a venue for yet more frickin' advertising.
What's funny is that everyone is finding a use for the iPad except using it as an iPad. Next. Multimedia serving tray. Watch.
@Darkseider I thought that was the point of a "blank slate" device like the iPad (or iPod Touch)... It does "whatever".
@Darkseider
Precisely the beauty of this multi-functioning, multi-purpose device. As mentioned, it's a "Blank Slate" to do whatever a developer, user, business owner, auto manufacturer, airline, schools, US Army feel is needed!
Touch the monkey! Say you love it!
Nice photoshop, guys! I just now noticed Deiter from Sprockets. Excellent.
Because nothing says "mug me" more than an iPad attached to your back......
I wonder what sweat seeping through the jacket will do to the iPad...
Consider this:
1. newly released Apple product purchaser = too much $$$
2. people with too much $$$ have more free time
3. people with more free time can think of more lame things in their free time.
and a corollary to consider from 1&2
4: people with too much free time and too much $$$ probably like Alexander Lebedev's wildly lame crap.
Oops, I meant Artemy Lebedev.
@MAS I guess too much money = more than you?
@MAS Don't be bitter because you're such a failure in life.
Okay that is scary... Those robot assassins are gonna take out the girl on the bike... Look out!
I sold my arms to get an ipad.
Loving the photoshopped dancing techno boys! Do I see photo hunts in Engadget's future?
The iPad reminds me of Thneeds from the Lorax.
And using your arms on a bike is hard because...?
The success of this product will only prove that there is an overwhelming demand of a "pinp slap". Not just any ole pimp slap, but one that will knock the glasses off one's face or knock the contact lenses off of ones eyes, knock the cup of Starbucks out of ones hand - yes, knock the taste out of ones mouth. So if you have any friends stupid enough to buy one of these - extend loving kindness to them and pimp smack the fool out of them to bring them back to reality. They'll thank you for it.
finger pointing up:
"I'm with Stupid"
The iPad Sprocket Pocket isn't quite useful, as most commenters agree. Taking Tombio's idea, "Integrate this with GPS and route plan so that every knowns of your right turn in 500 meters ... 200 meters ... 50 meters ... now," a bit further, here's my pipe dream:
Its safe to say iPad owners also own iPhones, and anyone strapping an iPad to their back while riding a bike isn't scared of jailbreaking either device to run custom software.
Mount the iPhone to the handlebars, use it to plan routes. Use a custom app to sync the route with the iPad like Tombio said, the app on the iPhone should also have the buttons to instantly display messages like left, right, stop, die in a fire, etc. Power both of the devices by attaching a generator to the bike pedals, and/or a large enough external battery to be sufficient for a day's travel.
I would build/buy that without hesitation.
So i wonder how many of them will be robbed.
Soooo, when is that flexible, light OLED material coming out, so people don't have to resort to archaic, douche-y things like this ? I was really hoping to have a jacket made from video screen by now :(
-William Gibson promised!
That drops panties
Thomas you may feel like a girl, but I fell like ice cream.