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A system from Ericsson was demonstrated at CTIA that broadcasts your ride. We've been posting about auto-moblogging bikes for 2-years now, considering the tech during Intel Developer Forums, and then rode around on a Purple Pedals bike last year. Ericsson's on-bike system seems rather bulky, but the idea is the same: Broadcast location, photos, and video. It uses IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) as an example of future Wireless video mashups.

Photo: Reuters.

My take is first make sure that I can get around town without drooping a call, having it sound terrible, or reliable G3. THEN start working on cool bike gadgets. I also expect to see robust, waterproof Netbooks attached to bikes at some point.

Like other iPhone users I’ve got a selection of apps

• Omnifocus — BORING, getting work done
• BrightKite — More time-sucking social work, statusing, sharing, SNOOZE
• Google Maps with Street View — f’ing amazing and a bit SPOOKY
• NYT, MNN for reading and falling ASLEEP
• Ustream - 100 channels of CRAP, like streamed Public Access TV

We’re hard at work on our next Mobile Social in Austin, Tejas, during SXSW Interactive. Last year we rode, BBQ’d, partied, and gave away product. This year, we’re back with 43% more bike culture. We’re adding rides and racing with the locals. The details will post as we finalize them, including the music and product we’re giving away. Check this microblog for updates.

My iPhone Omnifocus project for today is “election” — I’ll ride to the polls, vote, and tick off the tasks to complete the project (last week it was Halloween). I use OF all the time on my iPhone, being mobile traveling, and riding. I also use

• Air Sharing
• Network Speed Test
• Remote
• Typepad
• Virtual Zippo Lighter

I’ve found a few bike-related apps; Bicycle Gear Calculator, Cychosis, and BikePower and wondered what readers are using? Do they work well?

An issue is that you’ve got to keep the iPhone on and that app active to get any results from a ride and look at the screen while riding.

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We talked Taipei, technology, and bikes at the Taipei Blogger Party.

Well timed with our trip to the Intel Developer Forum Taipei, a reader tipped us to a new MIT Research project in Denmark called CopenCycle that features SmartBiking

a novel self-organizing smart-tag system that will allow the city’s residents to exchange basic information and share their relative positioning with each other.

We first noticed Flickr’s Moblogging, Geotagging Bike a few weeks ago, when I spotted it in Dunstan’s photostream. Since then, Yahoo! has launched a related site and Lifehacker details how the bikes work (PDF). The bike is an Electra and built by Uncommon Projects.

We’ve discussed bikes and mobile technology before and dig what Yahoo! and crew has built.

• Mobile Apps for Cyclists
• Ultra Mobile Bike Devices
• Bicycle Hi Fi

We hope the Purple Bikes generate even more buzz, pushing innovation. Next month, we’re back in Taipei for another Intel Developer Forum, and are looking for the latest mobile devices. Maybe we’ll see one during a Mobile Social? Also see Fritz’s post on Commute by Bike.

This bike takes photos, geotags them, and uploads every 60 seconds. It’s also solar—powered. We need this bike in our Mobile Socials and at SXSW.

Next up: GPS art-bikes. Ride a route and make art with it.

Update

Yahoo has launched a related site for the bike.

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We periodically blog about mobility, mobile tech, and devices and attend Intel Developer Forums — our Mobile Socials are an intersection of bike culture, mobile apps, and technology. We’re not at IDF San Francisco, but it’s all over the tech blogs and we’re following along.

It looks like a device between my iPhone and Macbook Pro will hit the market soon and it’s like those shown in this photo from UMPC Portal. It’s not a Macbook Air, because our bloggers need the space and power when traveling. I’d sure like to slip a thin, light, powerful computer into my Crumpler bag, ride to a meeting or a coffee shop, and get to work. Can’t do that now, but we’re getting there. I do work on the iPhone — the iPhone has blown open the mobile app market — but not for editing video, photos, or audio.

With the blogosphere and news media abuzz about the next iPhone, MobileMe (your mac online), and more mobile apps, we were wondering here at Hugga HQ what apps cyclists would want on their iPhones?

• Location-aware rides and routes
• alert me if the toll bridge is up!
• Dock my phone and get all my stats.

We’ve discussed this, in part, before and we’re thinking about again with the steady flow of iPhones apps expected.

What do you think is cool, would work for you?

Dahon is supplying us Mu XLs during our stay in Shanghai. We just confirmed the bikes are being delivered and we’ll ride them daily.

As our readers know, we’ve ridden and posted on Dahon’s folding bikes, including our exclusive coverage of Novara’s Flyby (I’ve heard their sold out, btw). Last year we rode with Dahon staff in Taipei.

I’m taking the Modal with me to Shanghai in single-speed mode and looking forward to some very interesting riding. We’ve heard from the Shanghai Crash Test Dummy and Labici Bike Shop about riding with us. Googling Shanghai, I found

• Chongming Island Race
• A Guide for Bike Riders in Shanghai
• An article defending the bicycle in Shanghai
• The battle of the bike in Shanghai
• Fueled by Rice

Besides the planned rides, like Beijing and Taipei, we’ll just get out into the city and ride.

Photo uploaded by lemonade

Update ###

Dahon is supplying us with Mu XLs during our stay in Shanghai — so the Modal in single mode is staying home for this trip.

Pam and I rode the folding bikes to the Seahawks game on Sunday. First to the Water Taxi, across Elliott Bay, and unto Qwest field. The Seahawks don’t offer bike parking, besides racks, so we decided to fold the bikes and walk right into the stadium with them — we had comped tickets at the club level.

For the most part, everyone was nice about the bikes, curious, and thought they were cool. Security didn’t know what to do with them and just let us pass through. If we attended games on a regular basis, we’d just rack them to not attract so much attention.

Of note, the Flyby continues to attract people with lots of questions.