Toyota Prius Project’s concept bike lets you shift gears with your mind

Got mind control on the mind? Check out this new concept bike from Deeplocal — a Pittsburgh-based design house that’s adding a neurological twist to the art of cycling. As part of Toyota Prius Project No. 11, the company outfitted the seat post of a Parlee PXP aero road bike with a wireless transmitter, allowing users to remotely shift gears with a smartphone. Deeplocal’s designers then added a set of neuron transmitters to a helmet and re-programmed the PXP to communicate with them — meaning, in theory, that riders could control the bike’s gears by simply thinking about it. Theory, of course, isn’t the same thing as practice, but perhaps the concept will become a reality if we think really hard about it. Toyota Prius Project’s concept bike lets you shift gears with your mind originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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