Hey bicycle, where are u?
Particularly if you are a dutchie, you may know the problem of losing your bicycle in the crowd. In the bicycle rack in your city, or at the train station or maybe at your schoolyard. There are just so many people traveling with the bikes, that you might oversee yours in the crowd. Well you don't have to worry anymore, because here's your hero.
WHAT
And your hero is called Pingbell. We all know the thing on the handlebar of our bicycle which you use to warn people. Well there is a new kind of bell now that's connected with an app on your smartphone. With this app you can easily see the location of your bike. If you want to know where you bike is, you just look at the map and follow the road.
When you park your bike, you just switch on your app and it remembers the spot where you parked your bike. If you want to go home and don’t remember where you left your bike, you open the app again and you see where you have left it. When you are close to the area of your bicycle, you can let the bell make a sound. If it's late at night and you don't want to wake everyone up. You can also let the bell light up. The connection goes through Bluetooth. You sometimes have to reload your bell. When it's fully loaded it lasts a year, so you don't have to worry that you can't find your bike because the battery of your bell is empty.
WHY
FROLIC studio is the inventor of this awesome hypermodern solution. It's the internet that makes it possible for to connect so many products to our smartphones and other digital devices. This is called the internet of things. And of course it again technologizing and digitalizing in our lifestyle, why there are such things ass Pingbell. Everything needs to be easier and so we make it easier. With Pingbell you don’t waste time and energy looking for your bike. Well now you know what to do when you're bike is missing again.
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Sources
- http://www.mixedgrill.nl/2015/09/14/nooit-meer-je-fiets-kwijt-dankzij-pingbell/
- http://pingbell.frolicstudio.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfPzcRP1Wes
Fig 1 - https://vriendsinlowplaces.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/amsterdam-147.jpg
Fig 2 - http://pingbell.frolicstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Pingbell-Interface.gif
- http://assets.coolhunting.com/coolhunting/2015/08/31/large_Pingbell-Bike-02.jpg
- http://freshgadgets.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pingbell-bluetooth-fietsbel-600x337.jpg
Video - http://youtu.be/YfPzcRP1Wes