Toyota Prius Project’s concept bike allows you to shift gears along with your mind

Got mind control at the mind? Take a look at this new concept bike from Deeplocal — a Pittsburgh-based design house that’s adding a neurological twist to the art of cycling. As portion of Toyota Prius Project No. 11, the corporate outfitted the seat post of a Parlee PXP aero road bike with a wireless transmitter, allowing users to remotely shift gears with a smartphone. Deeplocal’s designers then added a suite of neuron transmitters to a helmet and re-programmed the PXP to speak with them — meaning, in theory, that riders could control the bike’s gears by simply considering it. Theory, in fact, is not the same thing as practice, but perhaps the idea becomes a reality if we expect really hard about it.