Apple’s Smart Bike

Apple introduced a new patent for what could be an upcoming product: The Smart Bike. This news appeared in “Patently Apple” site, where included also several screenshots about this new patent of a bicycle that could connect with several devices; plus some other benefits.

This smart bike will use and provide several features, take a quick look:

• The system could include bicycle, sensors, display, and electronic device (iPod or iPhone).
• Just as in the Nike + iPod program, the user will be able to map their own bike courses on a map or view bike courses of other riders if you’re looking for a particular path in respect to distance or difficulty.
• The sensors, display and electronic device could communicate via communications network; which covers GPRS, CDMA, EV-DO, EDGE, 3GSM, DECT, IS-136/TDMA, iDen, LTE and/or others.
• The sensors could detect any suitable metric related to the use of the bicycle including for example speed, pace, acceleration, distance, time, incline, decline, altitude, torque, power generated, cadence, gear and derailleur settings, heart rate, calories burned, weather, and temperature.
• iPhone or iPod could be used to automatically or in response to a user instruction, record video, audio, or take photographs reflecting the course, and geo-tag the generated media for publishing.

The name iBike does not appear in the patent, but it sure sounds like a cool name.