During SXSW, Jason will have this nifty gadget that turns him into a WiFi cloud. That’s right, he’s a cycling hotspot with Wimax bandwidth to share with you. He’s roaming around, attending the Mobile Social, various panels, and is quite happy to connect with you.
So when ATT’s 3G network crashes, find Jason.
The Jason Cloud is brought to you by our friends at Intel.
Hunting for some computer supplies on Saturday morning, I ran into these urban single speed commuters branded by the high-end metalware maker Georg Jensen. They’re beautiful in person, but utterly impractical.
We’re back in Taipei this weekend for blogging, bike riding with Dahon, and attending the Intel Developer Forum. We’re also hosting a party on Sunday and Taipei bloggers are invited.
Sunday October 19, 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
In House
No.90. Song Ren Rd
Taipei, Taipei City
Please tell us if you’re coming on Upcoming.
We’re buying the drinks, appetizers, and we’ve got some goodies to give away
Remarkably, as our readers requested, we found innovative LEDs (tape!) and a new bike computer with built-in GPS. The video also show robots and these immersive High-Def pods from Intel that I thought would rule for watching le Tour.
I was touring CES when I wandered over to the Intel/BMW Formula One Auto Team exhibition. The F1 team had a bunch of displays for people to touch and play with. One impressive display was the steel disc brake rotor for a normal production car…and the full carbon disc for the F1 car. Talk about a huge difference in weight.
I’m not a big fan of disc brakes, but I was wondering why carbon disc brakes are not being built for cycling. Is it cost? Service life?
So I rode the Brompton folding bike in Las Vegas during CES. I rode from the hotel right into the Intel booth in the same time that it would have taking me to get to the line waiting to buy monorail tickets (to wait in line for the very slow monorail to the waiting point at the station across the street from the convention hall..blah, blah waiting for traffic to cross blah, blah etc…etc).
Setting aside how much I hate the streets of Vegas, here are my impressions:
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At CES, I was walking by the Haier booth when who would call out my name but Hilary Crowley, my favourite booth girl from Interbike? She’s worked the bicycle trade show the past couple years for Bianchi. But she’s not all show and no go! She’s got plenty of racing cred on a bike, and in fact her team is sponsored by Bianchi. This year they’re running those special edition Bianchis in Ducati motorcycle team red colour.
Cross-posted from Textura Design, a video featuring models, scenes from the CES Blogger party, Bloghaus, and a folding bike in the Intel booth.
It took us an hour in a car the day before to get to CES and under 5 minutes on a bike. At the door, I folding the bike up, and walked right into the booth. Then later, out of the booth, unfold, and off to a ride.
CES is crowds, tech from Intel, possibly evil robots, parties, a few bikes, and a “fun-ride” monorail that poses as mass transit with a lax security system. As the video shows, Mark got in through the out door.
Finding random stuff is the fun of CES, especially items like underwater text messaging devices, assuming you wanted to text underwater. I guess I could text from my rain bike that I was cold and wet …
Next week, Bike Hugger is back in Vegas to blog the Consumer Electronics Show. We’re there on the cycling tip and looking for relevant technology from Intel and others. Mobile Internet Devices are expected to dominate the show, like we talked about in the Ultra Mobile Bike Devices and Bicycle Hi Fi posts.
Any bike-related technologies that you readers are interested in seeing? Like messengers monitoring air pollution with cellphones and cargo bikes … .
Later this week, I’ll blog Beijing by bike. I’m visiting China for the Intel Developer Forum and Elliot Bay Bicycles is providing me a folding bike to ride around, check the city out, and experience the totally different world of China. And in that world, at least for now, bicycles still outnumber cars. For more on China, check
More interesting that the contrasting old v. young and laptop are the two bikes in the background of this poster for Intel’s Leap Ahead™ vision. The poster also caught my attention because next month I’ll blog from Beijing about bikes (of course), but also the pace of change in China. I had read that bikes still outnumber cars in China, but I’m expecting that’s rapidly changing.
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