Hasta La Gadget!

The Spooklight brings iPhone-style accelerometers to your bike, along with turn-signals for those too lazy to lift an arm. And the lithium-polymer battery-powered setup has a special surprise inside.

The kit consists of two parts: a lamp unit which goes at the back and a handlebar-mounted control unit, used to activate the turn-signals wirelessly. But it’s when you slow down that the magic happens. The accelerometers detect when you slow down and switch on the red light, just like when you brake in a car. And because the lights are all LEDs, they are bright and last for 60 hours (the control panel manages ten).

And here’s the surprise gift. The Spooklight charges via USB (it is detachable from the bike) so you can hook it up to a computer whilst working, but it also lets you charge gadgets while you are out and about, juicing an iPhone to use some GPS software perhaps. Very handy indeed, and alone almost worth the price: £55 ($88).

In fact, the only thing we don’t like about the Spooklight is that indicators are kind of pointless on a bike: As we mentioned above, you can just stick out an arm. And as for a brake-light, motorists just aren’t used to seeing them on bikes.

Product page [50 Cycles via Bicycle Design]