http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
(that's what she said?)]]>Apr 16th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/make that another facepalm -______-

we do have hand signals and they're more effective.]]>Apr 16th 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
Using your arm to indicate is flawed - you can't brake as quickly. I'd guess it adds maybe 0.7 seconds to ones reaction times which can be pretty critical.

Still I can't see this accelerometer based thing working at all. Acceleration is always 'down' (parallel to the seat post) on a bike, otherwise you'd fall off.]]>Apr 16th 2010 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/+1
Picard facepalm
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/picard-facepalm.jpg]]>Apr 16th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/When the iPad jailbreak comes out, and someone doesn't change their default password, I'm so going to ssh into their iPad and replace that turn signal with a kick me sign]]>Apr 16th 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
Lighten up guys. This has additional features of protecting against knives and bullets (small ones). Imagine also the possibilities of including organ donor information automatically triggered when the iPad is horizontal and an arrow pointing to the nearest morgue. Innovate!]]>Apr 16th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
This great idea will sell at least 20,000 more iPads. Lean back to flash..."Up yours, buddy." Great for the streets of Manhattan.
]]>Apr 16th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Is anyone seeing these 2 dudes in the bkgrn?]]>Apr 16th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/I think this says it better:

static void facepalm()
{
facepalm();
}]]>Apr 16th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
"Wooooow, I bet if God wore pants, he'd have a belt like that."]]>Apr 16th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi188547097/]]>Apr 16th 2010 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/I think this is more like it:

while(1) { facepalm(); }]]>Apr 17th 2010 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Either way this is a stupid idea. ]]>Apr 16th 2010 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/B) You would have never created it
C) This is a brilliant idea (think of how many bicycles, or news paper boys can advertise)

]]>Apr 16th 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/When you fall off a bike, how often is it that you land on your back? It's probably the safest place. (If you try to catch yourself with your hands, that iPad is as far from impact as it can be.)

Overall, I find it an amusing concept with some potential, but artistically those signals are pretty ugly and that light blue field around them is pretty bad.]]>Apr 16th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg]]>Apr 16th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/hah! i so did not see that before..]]>Apr 16th 2010 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/
In the end, the one on the front riders back made more sense, just for entertainment purposes. but that's not the story here, just the crapgadget (maybe not appropriate it's not the gadgets fault)...Um, crap app + crap accessory. ]]>Apr 16th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/That's because most Americans, if they even use turn signals at all, turn them on after they have started turning, negating the usefulness.]]>Apr 16th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/Apr 16th 2010 7:08AM