Free Marketing Advice for Nokia
2007-10-02 11:29:20
How about a “competitive upgrade,” where you send in your bricked iPhone in exchange for a discount on a new N95?
Half-Baked Idea: ECVT Bicycle
2007-04-11 16:53:18
I’ve been riding the ChargerBike that I appropriated from my dad to work for the last few weeks (at least on sunny days). For the vast majority of you who have never heard of a ChargerBike, it’s an electric-assist bicycle. There’s a 24-pound removable battery pack/controller that sits between the top tube and the down tube, which powers a little motor that has its own chain and freewheel driving the 7-speed hub shifter in parallel to the pedal chain. It’s an electric-assist bike in the truest sense: The motor controller turns on the juice in proportion to how hard you are pedaling. You can set the ratio in a range from half of your pedal effort all the way up to twice your pedal effort.
I’ve also been thinking about how it could be improved. That led me down the following little rathole which I’ll proceed to share with you.