The popularity of Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch hasn’t just resulted in an explosion of apps available from the iTunes Store, it’s also spawned a stack of hardware accessories designed to extend the ...

Earlence Fernandes is a computer science professor at UC San Diego. He’s also a cycling geek. He stands next to his bike at UCSD’s computer science building and tells how he commutes to work on his ...

I have been speeding around on a new bike this weekend, a cheap-o fixed gear I picked up in order to study for the Gadget Lab build-a-fixie project. I’m hooked — it’s so much fun riding the thing.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GEAR HEADS UP Wireless communication. After more than a decade and multiple wired bike computers from three companies with mixed success, I finally made the ...

Computer scientists at Germany's Saarland University have worked long and hard to rid your bike of that pesky one foot of brake cable which used to curve, short and graceful, down to the front wheel.

In my neighborhood in Portland, Ore., the hipsters all like to ride minimalist fixed-gear bikes (aka fixies). Without a freewheel, a fixie generally requires pedaling forward to move forward and ...

I almost crashed into a baby the first time I rode with the LiveRider iPhone bike computer. Not just a baby, but a woman riding perpendicular to me with a baby carrier on the back of her bike. I was ...

As part of an odometry project in progress, I discovered that a digital bicycle speedometer, the bike computer, seemed to be the perfect pick for some tinkering. I looked for a cheap version online, ...

Bike computers get better and more complex every year. The trick now becomes simplifying the experience, from easily accessing the fancy data to being able to attach and move the hardware quickly.