Digital reia view mirror

moonio
moonio Posts: 802
edited May 2009 in Commuting chat

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  • how cool is that .
    would probably run into the rear of a car watching it though :?
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    That is cool...
  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    I approve and want one :D
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  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    whoa gb u have lost so much weight!! well done!
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Only $300... next year. Glad my neck able to bend til then!
  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    moonio wrote:
    whoa gb u have lost so much weight!! well done!

    Cheers moonio :D
    On a Mission to lose 20 stone..Get My Life Back

    December 2007 - 39 Stone 05 Lbs

    July 2011 - 13 Stone 12 Lbs - Cycled 17851 Miles

    http://39stonecyclist.com
    Now the hard work starts.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I better start saving. Doesn't say wether it records or just diplays the images.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • gb155
    gb155 Posts: 2,048
    redvee wrote:
    I better start saving. Doesn't say wether it records or just diplays the images.

    it mentions 2gb memory so I guess you can record
    On a Mission to lose 20 stone..Get My Life Back

    December 2007 - 39 Stone 05 Lbs

    July 2011 - 13 Stone 12 Lbs - Cycled 17851 Miles

    http://39stonecyclist.com
    Now the hard work starts.
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Don't be fooled by the clarity of images on the website. You'll probably run into the back of a bus while squinting at the screen in broad daylight.
  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    redvee wrote:
    I better start saving. Doesn't say wether it records or just diplays the images.

    Says it'll record "30-second videos and workout data".
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  • nielsamd
    nielsamd Posts: 174
    Might be a bit tricky if one also regularly drives a car and uses its rear-view mirror. You might have to adjust your instinctive moves with each bike/car switch. . In the cycle screen a car coming up on the `left' side of the screen is in fact coming up on the right. In a rear view mirror its opposite but `correct'. Unless the digital screen processes it into a mirror image? Webcams can usually do this. So I will assume when they say `mirror' they mean it.

    I used to think about this sort of thing as a kid watching Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlett. In their SPV vehicle, the drivers faced the rear and drove while looking at a TV screen of the forward view. Used to bother me(!) that their bodies would be telling them they were going right while the screen said left etc.
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Not.

    Dork. :P
  • bracketed
    bracketed Posts: 55
    They are on W Butler Rd, in Mauldin, SC?

    I used to live there when I was a kid!!! Right here, actually.

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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
  • Cool, and totally pointless!

    Get a bike-eye mirror, does the same job at a fraction of the cost, and the bike-eye is also cool.

    bike-eye.com
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  • bomberesque
    bomberesque Posts: 1,701
    needs a helmet mounded HUD with teh only bit attached to the bike that cute little camera, then I may be unable to resist. In the meantime, a LCD TV screen on my handlebars? talk about invite to theft / vandalism and +1 for those who piont out that just about all current screen technology is pants in broad daylight, no reason to think this will be better.

    Plus it needs wifi/EDGE so I can browse Pr0n during the quieter parts of the commute (or whore the BR forum). Then you could get google maps and it would double as a GPS.

    Now yer talkin'!
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    God I must be a complete and utter luddite but that is one of the least cool things I've ever seen. How utterly utterly pointless. How many of us ride around with mirrors on our bikes? Almost none because a shoulder check is far more effective for a whole host of reasons.

    Pointless techie nonsense. Bah!

    J
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    jedster wrote:
    God I must be a complete and utter luddite but that is one of the least cool things I've ever seen. How utterly utterly pointless. How many of us ride around with mirrors on our bikes? Almost none because a shoulder check is far more effective for a whole host of reasons.

    Pointless techie nonsense. Bah!

    J

    depends on it's angle of view, in a car you can watch behind you far easier than on a bike, a shoulder check how ever quick isn't as easy as simply looking at a mirror. so i can see it's uses though how well it would cope with weather and would it stay put on the bike....