Really cool upcoming gadgets....

[quickdodge®]

It was perhaps inevitable that Honda, with experience in safety technology and motorcycle design, would be the first to introduce a motorcycle air bag commercially. If crash sensors mounted on the front fork detect an impact, a computer quickly decides whether to deploy the bag. Honda Gold Wings will offer air bags as early as this spring.


E-mail can be read only when a laptop is open, right? Microsoft's proposed solution is SideShow. Laptop makers are planning to design small screens on the outer body so you can read incoming messages or choose music without opening the case. SideShow will be supported by the Windows Vista operating system, launching this year.


Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard


The 2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a radar-guided park-assist option too, as well as a "night view assist." By shining invisible headlight- mounted infrared beams up to 500 ft. ahead of the car, it can display a black-and-white nightscope view on the dashboard.
2007 S550 available this month; $85,400.


Soft Hardware. You may have heard about the jacket with iPod controls stitched to the sleeve. Eleksen, the maker of "electroconductive" fabric products, now wants to introduce a qwerty keyboard that you can roll up and put in your pocket. The ElekTex keyboard will use Bluetooth technology to connect wirelessly to PDAs and smart phones.
June 2006; $150.


Fly coach, and the dream of watching movies on your laptop quickly fades, thanks to the reclining seat in front of you. Intel's new laptop design lets you pull the screen forward from behind the keyboard and even raise the screen to eye level. Elements of the design may appear this year in laptops priced at $1,100 and higher made by Intel partners.


Samsung's SGH-P300 is slimmer than Motorola's Razr. Its thickness is slightly less than 9 mm. It looks like a pocket calculator, but it's a tri-band world phone with a built-in MP3 player and 1.3-megapixel camera with video-recording capability.
Now in Europe, $600 to $700; coming soon to the U.S.


Blue is cold, red is hot—any kid knows that. So Delta developed the Brizo bath faucet, which uses lighting to change the water color depending on the temperature; it prevents children and the elderly from accidental scalding. The electronic faucet can be turned off or on with a touch, or with a wave of the hand.
Available within two years; $300 to $500.


Later, QD.

[Pher]

Good stuff. I know the laptop thing is a pain in the ass because of the damn seat in front of you and you can only get your screen so far back! But you didn't need it twice.

[R3RUN]

i dont really see an airbag on a motorcycle doing that much for you.

[The Golden Child]

cool ..

[imbosile]

good stuff.

[never_finished]

damn...i want the virtual keyboard, that is pimp as hell

[Z32redondo]

I thought this whole thread was a big joke because of the motorcycle airbag thing. But once I read on it was pretty badass. My favorite was the mercedes benz camera. IDK about the bluetooth keyboard though it looks like they have 2 letters on one key. I think that would get pretty aggrivating...

Nice find

[Tasuki_Civic]

i dunno about tha air bag on tha bike........i guess it aint bad. but you would think tha speed that the bag somes out it would knock tha person of balance while on tha bike. i dont think its useful. but maybe?

[Vteckidd]

if you look closely, the bluetooth keyboard has 1 ltter on each key, just in a differnet language. thats what it looks like to me

[Z32redondo]

^^^ nice catch I was wrong

[quickdodge®]

.....i guess it aint bad. but you would think tha speed that the bag somes out it would knock tha person of balance while on tha bike.

If you were to hit a car head-on with your bike and the airbag deployed, wouldn't you rather be knocked backwards off the bike or go flying over the handlebars and probably into the windshield or worse of the car(or whatever) you hit? Lolol. Later, QD.

[v3rd1g0]

the keyboard looks like it has the greek alphabet on it, i see mew(mu, w/e) and theta

[Tasuki_Civic]

If you were to hit a car head-on with your bike and the airbag deployed, wouldn't you rather be knocked backwards off the bike or go flying over the handlebars and probably into the windshield or worse of the car(or whatever) you hit? Lolol. Later, QD.

lol yea but when you think of it ....what hapens if another car didnt see it (thats behind you ) and you either ( a) you get ran over by tha car or (b) you just get hit. either way it goes you still fucked

[quickdodge®]

^^^ Lolol. Didn't think of that. Later, QD.

[Whiteboy™]

The airbag on the motorcycle is fucking stupid, I thought this was a joke post after I saw it. I mean common thats not gonna help you a bit.
I am pretty sure that the bluetooth has russian on it btw.

[quickdodge®]

The airbag on the motorcycle is fucking stupid,

Not really. There are advantages to it.

Remember, we don't know all the info on this thing. Later, QD.

[Whiteboy™]

true but it still sounds stupid =)

[tatodotcom]

im sure honda has done enough research to prove that the airbag does help somehow.... otherwise they prolly wouldnt have put it on there....

[IronEagle]

Cool.

[Darling Nikki]

The airbag on the motorcycle is fucking stupid, I thought this was a joke post after I saw it. I mean common thats not gonna help you a bit.
I am pretty sure that the bluetooth has russian on it btw.

I really like your sig +1

[EP3sAreFun]

they show the airbag on a goldwing, you need to think of the physics of your force going forward on a goldwing front wreck versus your typical sportbike... On the Goldwing it makes sense since you are sitting up right, on a sportbike where you are leaning over the front of the bike it would make very very little sense at all.

its a ncie idea.. but still kidna silly. i wanna say when i used to be on GSB all the time i saw a thing with a airbag suit.

I say if you are the kind of person that having an airbag on a motorcycle makes it safe enough for you to ride one.... you shouldnt be on a motorcycle in the first place.

[dm1995]

cool

[quickdodge®]

^^^Shut the fuck up. Later, QD.