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Old 08-08-10 | 05:52 AM
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cranky old dude
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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil
Apple may be readying an iPhone bicycle integration system. Something with multiple sensors placed on the bike, communicating to the iPhone and to other nearby bikes.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/a...e-integration/

Any 50+'ers interested?
No thank you. I'm trying to retreat from techno-wizardry as much as possible. My brain is tired from trying to remember how to keep it all calibrated.

I already dread the annual changes from Daylight Savings Time and back again. Even with the owners manuals in hand I always seem to struggle just to get the clocks set in the cars.

The bike computers are even worse! I've got Avocet 30's and Avocet 15's and Cateye Strada'a and a few I can't remember right now. I have to keep a web folder with operating manuals for each brand and model and live in dire fear of battery change time. I'm currently in the process of creating an Excel Spreadsheet to track the calibration setting for each of my bikes, though I must admit I'm kinda dragging my feet a bit.

The T.V. set-up...Oh Lordy...With the T.V., the electric antenna, the VCR (yeh, it still works), the surround sound DVD player and the WII system all wired together I would have lost my mind if my daughter hadn't wired it all up for us. Those Aerospace Mech. Engineers are pretty handy sometimes. She even, at my insistance, left us with written instructions how to operate it all.

You guessed correctly, I'm also one of those few people left on this planet who only uses a cell phone for phone calls. I just can't get interested in all the other goodies that are packed into that little devise. We don't even text, don't pay for texting either.

Though I'm sure a lot of you smart people could have a lot of fun with a devise such as an iPhone bicycle integration system, it's not for me.

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