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“The premise is rather like Apple’s Nike + iPod system for runners except for cyclists,” Purcher reports. “While the system is for individuals, it’s also designed to work with teams of cyclists so that they could communicate with each other on-the-fly about course difficulty or perceived problems.”
Purcher reports, “The bicycle system monitors speed, distance, time, altitude, elevation, incline, decline, heart rate, power, derailleur setting, cadence, wind speed, path completed, expected future path, heart rate, power, and pace. The system could utilize various sensors built-into the iPhone in addition to working with sensors already built-into the bike itself. Apple’s patent is extraordinarily detailed and packed with interesting twists that the sporting cyclist will really appreciate.”
Much more, including patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
A sensor for both of your heart rates!
Awesome! I’ve been waiting for something exactly like tis for years!
Oh and I too like the dual heart rate monitor–for both my hearts..
Excellent idea Apple! I love Nike + iPod and I’d love such technology to now extend to the bike.
When Apple Computer declared it becoming a Consumer Electronics Manufacturer Ala Sony and chsnged it’s name to now Apple Inc. , it meant business. We have witnessed to date an impeccable transition with home run after home run of hit conser products. This I’d just Apple Inc. In it’s infancy.
By the time this sinks in to the small second guessing minds of the dumb so called technology analysts and pumdits, Apple will be an empire.
And we were there for the ride.
Wow!!!
And one of these days maybe I’ll get my fingers in tune with the iPhones keyboard…
John and Blair,
This is the first sensor developed specifically for Jarvik heart patients.
heart rate
Dick Cheney will be filing suit if it doesn’t measure pints per minute.
Forget the bike. Apple should team up with (or even buy) Tesla Motors, and make an “Apple Smart Car” (obviously electric).
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(Tesla Motors HQ is even in Steve’s home town, Palo Alto.)
Ken1w:
An Apple smart car is not too far fetched you know?
Finally a heart rate monitor for each of my Klingon hearts. The house of Puppy is pleased.
Will the Tesla Apple have a flux capacitor?
A smart bike would have a camera and a GPS, to take photos of cars that take a swipe at bike riders. Then automatically send them up to law enforcement.
@ jimSydAus
The bike is in a cloud in the patent. You ride above the traffic Jim –
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Purcher missed to include “and heart rate” after “and pace” to make sure it does monitor that.
@Missed
The words “heart rate is mentioned 11 times in the report and twice in the introduction alone.
“The Bicycle system monitors speed, distance, time, altitude, elevation, incline, decline, heart rate, power, derailleur setting, cadence, wind speed, path completed, expected future path, heart rate, power, and pace.”
First, the Mac was a bicycle for the mind. Now we’ll have a mind for the bicycle!