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Did you know that this kind of thing was even possible? The video shows Danny MacAskill. who rides for UK trials bike company Inspired Bicycles, shredding it in Edinburgh. As our own Danny Dumas says on Twitter*, “From what I gather this is parkour…done with bicycles.”

Keep watching. If you think it’s all over after the first couple of minutes, it isn’t. The video just gets bigger and better as it goes on.

Inspired Bicycles – Danny MacAskill April 2009 [YouTube via Danny Doom]

Product page [Inspired Bikes]

*Normally, of course, Danny’s answer to the Twitter question “What are you doing?” is “Styling my hair. My beautiful hair. In the mirror.”

RAmos definitely isn’t the most respected name in PMPs here in the US, but as of late, it’s done a commendable job of staying relevant… at least on the design front, anyway. The firm’s latest concoction, which goes by RM990 iOne2, is a touchscreen-heavy media player that’s clearly not anorexic. Specs wise, we’re told that it features a 3-inch WQVGA touch panel, haptic feedback, a built-in accelerometer, 4GB of internal storage and support for a whole gaggle of file formats. Not bad for the low, low asking price of just 399 yuan (around $58), but it’s hardly worth a trip to Shanghai.

[Via PMPToday]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

RAmos RM990 iOne2 PMP looks surprisingly desirable originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re going to build a manual Segway clone, why not make it steampunk style? This fantastically dangerous pedal-powered Steampunk Segway is called the Legway, and is apparently not as hard to ride as it looks.

Steampunk usually means low-tech, and the Legway is as low-fi as things get. The pedals are mounted on a “crank” of galvanised steel, and pretty much everything else, including the wheels, is made from wood. The Legway obviously lacks the Segway’s self-balancing electronics, replacing them with “a brave self balancing human”. Actually, not that brave — if you check the photos at the end of the Instructables how-to, you’ll see that the maker Bdring has pressed his son into service as a test pilot (although he did ride the thing himself in the accompanying video).

The Legway should be secretly shipped as an overnight replacement for all the real Segways I see carrying swarms of tourists around my city. Currently, my tourist-baiting is limited to riding up behind map-gawkers that have wandered into the bike lane and going crazy with the bell. The inevitable face-plants that the Legway would bring would obviously be far more satisfying.

Project page [Instructables]

See Also:

• Video Shadenfreude: Segway Face-Plant
• T3 Security Bike: A Segway for Tough Guys
• Pimp Your Segway
• The Chinese Segway Division Seemed Unstoppable… Until Criminals …

In the 22 city-strong foot race to get a live MPH-based mobile TV network up, running, and available to anyone who wants it, it looks like Washington DC’s poised to come out on top. Raleigh has already deployed a handful of transmitters for the benefit of bus-goers, but the Open Mobile Video Coalition has announced that Washington DC’s local CBS, PBS, NBC, and Ion affiliates plus a Fox-owned independent will all be ready to roll with MPH transmissions by late summer; of course, what remains to be seen is what sort of hardware will be ready to take advantage of the tech by then. We can likely count AT&T and Verizon out for offering MPH-enabled handsets seeing how they’re still trying to figure out how to profit from their MediaFLO-based networks, so T-Mobile and Sprint’s decisions to take a wait-and-see approach to the mobile TV phenomenon may really end up working in their favor here. Moving beyond the phones, it’s said that Dell will be showing some sort of netbook this week with an integrated MPH tuner at the NAB show in Vegas this week, while Kenwood has in-car solutions in the works. As long as the broadcasts stay free — which by all accounts they will — the standard has a fighting chance at relevancy, assuming hardware comes to the table.

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Video

Washington DC announced as first MPH mobile TV market originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s long-awaited (okay, so we made that part up) N120 netbook has finally transitioned from “might ship someday, maybe” to “oh, I’m definitely shipping.” Consumers interested in the 10.1-inch, 2.8 pound netbook can surf over now to Amazon and order one up in black or white for the not-totally-tantalizing price of $465.99. If you’ve forgotten what all that buys you, here’s a rundown, and feel free to say it with us in unison: 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP Home, a 1,024 x 600 resolution panel, 6-cell battery, a 3-in-1 multicard reader, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and an Ethernet jack for good measure. Oh, and there’s a “2.1-channel” sound system, for whatever that’s worth.

[Thanks, Chuckles McGee]

Filed under: Laptops

Samsung’s 10.1-inch N120 netbook now on sale originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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