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 ...

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.

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 ...

Computer scientists in Germany have developed a wireless bicycle brake and demonstrated its efficiency on a so-called cruiser bike. Furthermore, they confirmed the brake system’s reliability through ...

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 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.

Holger Hermanns wasn’t out to change the way people bike. For the computer scientist, whose mission in life is to make things safer through well-prepared wireless systems, cycling is just a hobby. But ...

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.