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American electric motorcycle price lowered

10 yearsIt would take me ten years of riding it 14 miles to work and 14 miles back including in the cold and the rain with gas at $1.60 a gallon to pay for the cost of the bike. Those batteries generally need replacement at 2,000 charges which would be...

Tags: Engineering, motorcycle

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Dead Finger Tech: Ducati Monster

Dead Finger Tech: Ducati MonsterNice bikeThe Monster is a nice bike. I find that my bike is wonderful "stress reduction therapy" and enjoy buzzing around the nearby Florida keys.Thanks for the review!Dan KNice to see a ZDnet writertelling at least indirectly Harry Fuller to sod off.RE: Dead Finger Tech:...

Tags: Ducati, Monster, Dead-Finger Tech

Discussion threads 2009-07-26

eZee electric bicycles -- photos

eZee electric bikes are moving into the U.S. market. The bikes are equipped with a servo motor and a battery that has enough juice to power the bike up to 20 miles at 20 mph. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Bike, Engineering, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-15

More small scale electric transport

More small scale electric transportA gas-powered scootergoes twice as fast, has 5 times the range and costs $2000 less. If you're crunched by gas bills, get one of those instead. At $4 a gallon, you'll be able to buy 500 gallons with the money you save. Enough to drive your...

Tags: electric transport, transport, bike, scooter

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

More small scale electric transport

A2B, courtesy Ultra Motors. This is the A2B, as in "gets you from A to B." It's Ultra Motors' electric bike aimed at the harried, gas-attacked urban commuter. There are other electric bikesd around, of course. Here's Ultra's own pitch...

Tags: A2B, Bike, Internet, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Is this bike made from spider webs?

Is this bike made from spider webs?baked?"baked for four hours at 255 degrees Fahrenheit" - so will it melt down in the sauna?RE: Is this bike made from spider webs?Man, that is the coolest thing since CheezWhiz and escalators. No way would I ever be able to afford one, but...

Tags: Channel management, bike, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

The bike, the rain, and a sick iPhone touchscreen

The bike, the rain, and a sick iPhone touchscreenSo what you're telling me is that...Water caused an electronic device to malfunction? You've got to be kidding me!!gee...and here i was thinking about taking my iphone into the shower with me... ;-)

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

Why bicycles are so stable?

Why bicycles are so stable?RE: Why bicycles are so stable?About a year ago there was a program on one of the Science or History channels that covered this topic. A team of researchers experimented on a bicycle and determined that while the human rider did offer some...

Tags: bike, bicycle, rider

Discussion threads 2007-09-22

Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashion

Earlier this week, I participated in a panel discussion at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering where we covered the challenges to science and technology journalists in separating the truth from the hype. Hype in science and technology you say? There's no hype! It's all truth! He he. ...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Three wireless fitness devices to help shed pounds and blood pressure

Three wireless fitness devices to help shed pounds and blood pressureYou missed the ultimate wireless fitness deviceI use the Garmin Edge 305 with Heart Rate Sensor and Cadence/Speed Sensor. Imagine not only getting instantaneous feedback but also being able to specifically review parts of your ride. With the...

Tags: GPS, HEALTHCARE, wireless fitness device, bike, blood pressure, wireless

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

Three wireless fitness devices to help shed pounds and blood pressure

What follows is a tale of my effort to get back in shape and the wireless fitness gear that I purchased to help me get there. continued below.... Video: To see a video of the wireless gear David ended up buying and how it works on his bike...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Personal Technology, Mobile, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-05-04

Dead Finger Tech: Garmin GPSmap 60c goes on this cyclist's handlebars and everywhere else

Meet John Pickering. After taping a video segment for an upcoming review of some fitness technology for cyclists, I encountered Pickering on his bike as I was riding back to my home office. As we were riding, I looked down on his handlebars to see something very different from what...

Tags: Dead Finger Tech, General, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Additional Resources

OkMap 7.5.4 (Windows)

OkMap is a free software for many outdoor activities: Trekking Off road Mountain bike Sailing Hunting and fishing Finding mushrooms Soft air Geocaching. OkMap help you to: Calibrate vectorial and raster maps with different types of cartographic projections. Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon vector. Display...

Tags: Raster, Microsoft Windows, Gian Paolo Saliola, OkMap, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-18

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Psystar massacred in court

I wouldn't.....buy even with a 100% discount, Psystar is toast and part of Apple's claim would invoke a recall of all machines and buyer's info. Apart from the 'no support' from Apple, there will be no support from a defunct company too.Yep, there is pent-up demand for an expandable cheap...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

MacTopos California 3.0 (Mac)

Camp, geocache, off-road, hike, and bike California in style! James Associates, producer of MacGPS Pro software, now offers MacTopos Calilfornia for the ultimate topographic digital map solution.Five DVDs contain USGS topo maps for the entire state in three crystal-clear map scales: 1:24K, 1:100K, and 1:250K plus US Forest Service 24K...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, James Associates, GPS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-15

Bing 2.0 debuts

Bing Image SearchSpeaking of Bing, I recently did some Bing Image Searches, and found that they produced better results than Google Image Searches.Just keeps getting better.I don't know how anyone using Bing could find anything to complain about. In fact all the complaints I do see come from people...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?

Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

iChopper Free for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

With iChopper Free for iPhone you can be easy rider anywhere. Amuse your friends with iChopper Free for iPhone experience. To build or chop a traditional chopper an unmodified factory bike is used and everything unnecessary to either move or stop is stripped or chopped off. Then the engine and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Mobile, Animion, Performance Part, Smart Phones, Performance Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28

iChopper for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)

With iChopper for iPhone you can be easy rider anywhere. Amuse your friends with iChopper for iPhone experience. To build or chop a traditional chopper an unmodified factory bike is used and everything unnecessary to either move or stop is stripped or chopped off. Then the engine and transmission are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Mobile, Animion, Performance Part, Smart Phones, Performance Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-10-28