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China's Google will launch a smart bike later this year

28 November 2014 - 11:50 | Technological innovations
China's Google will launch a smart bike later this year

Chinese search giant Baidu is all over that with the Dobike a non-motorized bicycle equipped with regenerative electric tech and laden with smart fitness technology. It sports heart rate, pedal rate, peddle pressure and other sensors which which connect via Bluetooth to a smartphone app. With that info, it'll monitor your health stats, provide mapping directions, track your bike's position and recommend cycling routes or fitness programs via social networks -- to name just a few possible functions.

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